In the old days, most of the price of the bike was the bike and much of money ended up in the hands of people that touched the bike. These days, not the case. If Masi wants to retail that bike for $2,000 the frame had better be $15.00 or less at their production cost.

From where I stand, there is a market for simple bike designs. I built this for myself. I am going to replace it soon with a very compact aluminum frame and then with a lugged frame (might as well collect my own bikes too since I get them cheap)

I don't know a lot about the fitting part of bicycles. I really just figure out structural issues. The racer kids who buy most of my bikes thinks building this frame was a mistake from a style perspective. He figures it should have been fully compact with a sloping top tube or been much taller seat/head tube with a properly flat stem. I do love the Columbus nivacrome tube and the steel fork rides very nicely compared to carbon.

Just so you know, I don't think any of this new junk belongs in the C&V forum regardless of what it looks like. The one exception would be sympathetic reproduction items.

I put this up here, not as some type of contribution but for two simple reasons. (1) I like my pretty bike (2) People will see it and may want to buy one. Everyone gets to be bad once once in a while.







27 203 by frankthewelder, on Flickr