Brian writes:
>'72 seems to be the year, and the only year, for the "crosshair" down tube
decal. The following year, when Masi also began production in CA, the bold
outline minus crosshair decal appears.
USA and Italy must have been using different decal sets for a time, or maybe it took a long time for the Vig to run out of the old set... I have photos of Italian bikes with crosshair decals from '73, some possibly as late as 1974. Chuck's Sammontanaa bike, 6-73 fork stamp, has crosshairs. Granted, it is a "blue-panel" decal, but still, the US "blue panels" had no crosshairs. The twinplate at Speedbicycles and Jay Van de Velde's twinplate, both all-original and with "Alberto Masi" panto'ed stems, both have crosshair decals.
Bob Hovey
Columbus, GA