Originally Posted by qcpmsame

Thought some of you may want to read this month's Pros' Closet article in Road Bike Action Magazine. Its written by Bruce Lin, pretty well done if brief. Its on Pp 63-65, with photographs, its a 58cm blue Confente Pro Strada, that PC has in its collection.

One thing in the article caught my attention, it has a spacer on the drive side fixed cup for the bottom bracket added, possibly due to the SR/NR spindle width problems, if I had to guess. Bruce commented that Mario would not allow such a band-aide fix to leave his shop, interesting that the spindle width problem wasn't mentioned there, if that is the case here. This article does have some interesting history/biography points about Mario and his time here in the USA, in it too

I am really amazed how similar my Medici is to the bike featured, not in its rarity or specialness (if I can make up the words as I go here,) but in the geometry and the lug shapes and features. Also, the components it has are close to the ones I chose to use on my build. Except for the SR rear derailleur and yellow bar tape, the two bikes are similar in appearance. Please note I only said similar here. Their valuation is $12,000 for the bike.

Bill