That's a Chinese spec frame, Italian in name only. See "Fuji" "Mercier", "M'becane" "Dawes" "Schwinn," etc, etc. for other examples of how the mighty (and the pretty good) have fallen into similar stuff.
Jeff Slotkin usually at... The Bicycle Shoppe Charleton, SC
On Jan 28, 2009, at 10:32 PM, David Bean wrote:
> On Boston CL, there's a quite new very OT Masi with the track frame
> end
> featured in a photo. I know Masi is not the shop it once was, but
> it looks
> like hell. Is this typical of how new Italian steel frames are
> finished?
>
> http://boston.craigslist.org/
>
> David Bean
> Arlington, MA USA
> beandk at are-see-enn dot com