Originally Posted by
TejanoTrackie
Agreed. My blanket statement is only 99.9% correct. Exactly how many handmade Masis have you seen on CL/eBay ? Are you suggesting that the Masi shown in post 1015 above is anything other than low quality Asia stuff ? Oh, and btw just to nitpick, it's Alberto Masi's son, not the original Alberto Masi who is building frames now, although he may be just as competent as his father.
You know...just because a bike is not hand-made does not automatically make it "cheap Chinajunk" and I never mentioned the particular bike in question.
And not to nitpick...but it was Faliero who founded and grew Masi - Alberto is his son and for decades his workshop has been and in fact still is hand-building Italian Masis.
But we seem to be forgetting that during much of Masi's "good times" they were actually made in California, where some of the best American custom frame-builders got their starts, and where the family lost use of their name in the US...
Originally Posted by
Regulatori
Yep. It's like trying to compare a Cinelli Gazzetta to a SuperCorsa. The Supercorsa is probably 5% (or less) of their steel frame track bike frame sales. A majority of their bikes are made in China (Gazzetta, "Work model", etc...)
Does that mean any Cinelli made in Asia is "cheap Chinajunk?"
Originally Posted by
leegf
Ah, but the bike in question is most decidedly not one of their higher end models:
Does that mean that every asian Masi is "cheap Chinajunk?"
Maybe you guys should to go back to shilling all those suh-weet Aventons & Kilos
