Nick March wrote:
Dany Gonzalez, I would willingly award you a medal for pointing us to that
marvelous bike, true epitomy of how a Masi should be set up, the first one
I've seen used properly. You are a benefactor of cycling and bicycles. Â Nick March, Agen, 47000 Lot et Garonne, France
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Ordinarily, I would not bother with responding to any attempted witticism b y Mr. March, since I believe that feeding the trolls is always a bad idea.
If Mr. March actually bothered to RIDE a Masi Gran Criterium from before 19 75 or any Masi Special he might discover that these bikes have their reputa tion for a reason: they're a great combination of plushy and refined. The y're everything you could ask for in a vintage italian road bike, purely fr om a ride-quality point-of-view. The Gran Criterium, in particular, has a ride-it-all-day comfort, coupled with excellent road-manners, sporty and r efined at once.
The Masi Prestige is also a very fine piece of work, although closer to the more upright style of the 1980s, and thus, to my mind, a more specialized breed than the Gran Criterium or the Special.
Apparently Mr. March has never had the pleasure of riding any Masi, or else he hasn't the faintest idea how to judge the quality of a road bicycle of any kind. I suspect both the former, *and* the latter.
Perhaps I shouldn't take Mr. March seriously. Perhaps he's just trolling f or a post like this. That's ok. I'm simply tired of reading his vaguely m isanthropic, and distinctly incoherent screeds.
Sign me as one more CR lister who will be ignoring Mr. March, and his posts , from here on out, since cranky types who live in France have absolutely n o reason to be cranky, seems to me.. ;> and even less reason to needlessly inflict that incoherent crankiness on the rest of us.
Charles Andrews Los Angeles
(btw: I thought that Masi mtb was super cool...but hardly an excuse to diss
Masi's classic road product.)