Originally Posted by Henry III

After my framebuilding course my instructor Doug Fattic really pounded into my head how the frames we built are on the same quality or possibly better then the more sought after brands...Colnago, De Rosa, etc. When ever I would bring something up about a name brand like that he would just kind of shoot them down and give me a story behind them about how they were about kicking out numbers. When you here stuff like that over and over from someone like that you start to question "grail bikes". He had a Confente built Masi just for him, a couple of curvy Hetchins along with a lot more other frames that he used for display pieces in class. Showing us imperfections and things along that nature. So I feel the bike I built for myself there is my grail bike as it's got what I want and fits me like a glove and in the end built specifically for me and not just a nice production built bike.