Masi's Rescued?
On the contrary. Every framebuilder knows those old consumer goods need to be USED UP. Where's there a place and future for Campagnolo?--In sponsoring cyclocross, to TEAR UP that stuff filling shelves and gear-boxes, to make room for the new. )
If conversion to fixies is one step on the way to that,
the better for KOF. After the taste for simplicity, purity, and
connection goes the way of thrice weekly early AM visits to the gym for
crunches and treadmill miles, these bikes will go to rental storage
lockers for 5 years, and then come back out into the food chain. No
gears? "Bikes for the world" prefers them that way.
http://www.bikesfortheworld.org/
Gather and hoard ye old shifter and der cable clamps while ye may. Because the fixie frames that will be coming back out from storage company purges and condo dumpsters and bike-room clearances will have had their braze-ons ground off. Or, they'll be rubished.
So, start visiting the folks over at the framebuilders' list, where more may be mourning that the fixie craze may be too soon spent than that it was. It is indeed Thanksgiving Day in the US today.
Harry Travis
Washington, DC USA