Dee,
I simply had not had time to respond. Despite being an interesting group, I have plenty of other e-mail from other things to attend to and I will only be checking in every few days.
As far as I recall, Mario left Masi sometime in late 1975 or early 1976. Does that sound right Brian? I remember him at the November 1975 meeting.
Photo?...I have my jersey yet.
Our Carlsbad Bicycle Club jerseys were primarily white, with a red band and red shoulders with black lettering and trim. No Masi on there anywhere. As I mentioned, CBC was unsponsored until Auto Fast Freight came on for 1977 or 1978. Gian did have a blue and gold Masi jersey that he wore from time to time (as he did his G.S. Verona jersey).
I was simply a rider, I do not know the other particulars you are asking, sorry. Brian Baylis and Jim Cunningham worked there. I mainly knew Gian Simonetti because he was the "coach". Mario wandered through a couple of our meetings and a couple of times Gian took us into the factory work area after a meeting.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
Jim Thurman
Lancaster, California
> Hi Jim, I realize my previous email was a bid broad
> in its question. I have
> found the info on the Bob Hovey Masi site to be very
> vague when it talks
> about Mario Confente and when he was there and when
> he left, ect. Also,
> maybe you can tell me how many of the bikes he
> actually worked on and how
> that worked. When did he leave to make his own
> frames, or was he doing both
> Masi and his own at the same time? Or was he just
> training people and not
> really making anything other than the first 100 Masi
> bikes from Carlsbad in
> 1973? I know the signs of his workmanship, such as
> his drilled out dropout
> slots, etc. So I'm wondering if he always added
> some extras on the Masis he
> made or how that played out. Do you have any ideas
> on this stuff?
>
> Also, do you happen to have a photo of the old Masi
> jersey from the old
> team? I heard it had Masi on it from Bryan Baylis,
> I think.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Dee Gordon
> Los Angeles
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