Outside of all the drama from the attempt at Masi USA being successful, and Bill Recht's takeover that went bust, I thought that Masi and to a lesser extent Medici were pretty much Italian in their geometry. Not to place Medici on the same level as Masi or Confente, as I understand it, they were supposed to be the more entry level bikes in Recht's plans. I have no complaints about the handling of mine, but I am not one that tests a bike's performance.

Confente was supposed to be working on some high zoot quality lugs, I couldn't follow some of the convoluted emails about them in the CR exchanges between Baylis and Cunningham. Did these see the light of day, and make it to production? Maybe on the Confente bikes that got made. I never had heard the Jimmy Carter story before, interesting attempt at promotion, wrong president to try and give something to.

Bill