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... I didn't know they stopped production of them though, as I fell away from riding for awhile.
Medici was the name Bill Recht came up with when he learned he could not buy Masi in the USA. His Medici bicycle company had two primary employees, Gian Simonetti and Mike Howard. Both who had worked at Masi in Carlsbad California.
The pair with some additional help here and there, ran the production.
In the late late 80's or early 90's the Medici name could no longer be used. The whys of this are not completely clear but Mr. Recht got into some legal trouble and it might have something to do with it.
Simonetti then used his name and there was also Simo cycles as follow on enterprises.
Mr. Howard got into legal trouble separately and was not available to weld up the bikes while serving his sentence.
With no primary builder, Simonetti closed up shop in due course.