Originally Posted by
Road Fan
I don't know what it is, but I think it's probably not a Masi. Good quality, traditional Italian style, but not a Masi.
Look at the Italian and American Masi pages on
www.classicrendezvous.com, and those for other frame builders. That will tell you a lot, and some signs of Confente's work. Few Masis were actually built by Confente, and there were only about 70 actual Confente bikes.
Actually, I've searched through the galleries for a couple of weeks.. And my best guess was Masi or Masi with set of Confente lugs (NOT Confente itself, by it's own name!) because of lugs/dropouts/fork crown/drilling.... I've found a lot of pictures of Masi bikes with exactly the same (they looks identical) parts.... Only one sign of Confente at all were spades... And without these spades I was pretty sure that it is Italian and it is some related to Masi... Well, I will search through again....