Viva March. One look at his pages tells you his take on Italian (yawn) bikes. Yes, I actually get excited about neat bikes like Pogliaghi, Freschi, Galmozzi, Picchio. Also I have a weakness for Cinelli and Frejus. But the cookie cutter guys with cookie cutter lug emblems and BRANDING are BORING. Nick is cheeky and amusing in my opinion.
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Whitneyville, CT
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From: chasds@mindspring.com
> 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.
> Ã
> Nick March, Agen, 47000 Lot et Garonne, France
>
> *********
>
> 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.)