Neato! George, good stuff, thanks!
I noticed that that pictured bike also had a fenestrated chain too!
(I should have made the Theme for this year's Cirque show " "Pantographing , Drillium, Fancy Lugs & Fenestration: Those fascinating flights of cycling fancy!\u201d
Ha ha! Isn't language great! Dale Brown Greensboro, North Carolina USA http://www.classicrendezvous.com -----Original Message----- From: gholl@optonline.net To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:49 AM Subject: [CR]Alberto Masi- A Visit to the Master
My son and I had the priviledge of spending part of last Saturday with Alb erto Masi at his shop in the Vigorelli. I found him intelligent, affable and high ly informative. His shop was neater and cleaner than a surgical suite. We had gone to obtain his advice and approval on the restoration of an all chromed Prestige that I have undertaken. Not only did he approve the restoration, but provided us with details on the frame preparation, chroming , clear coating, trim and decal placement. It turns out that his own personal Prestige is entirely chromed! He felt that no one he knew in Italy was prese ntly capable of chroming an entire bike and was pleased that it could be done in the US. He then showed us a number of very interesting period bikes, and bike parts,
detailing their history. Perhaps the most interesting was his recently resto
red
("from a mass of rust") model "Fiera", with fenestrated seat stays. We were
informed that less than ten such bikes were made, one for Merckx himself. Th
e
amount of work in producing the seat stays was prodigous. Here are the photo
s:
http://i169.photobucket.com/