Originally Posted by Blue Order

The beauty of it all is that those bikes have zero value now except as generic fixed gears. If he ever decides to sell his Wilier, he'll never be able to sell it as a Wilier. Same for the Centurion. Just anonymous, generic fixed gears now, and forever.

Originally Posted by Otis

The best part is this not just some doosh with a personal "dream bike vision", but a "shop" or business venture of some sort that built this bike on spec to sell. According to a local that was following the sale it was bid to only a grand falling far short of their asking price. The bike in its previous state would have brought at least $1000-$1500 on ebay I would think.

Why you would start with a fairly rare, clean original Italian race bike to make a rolling cliche like that is beyond me. Buried in that thick black powder coat it may as well be a Surley or any other generic tig welded faux tracker under there.

It's such a perfect FU to any vintage bike guy I almost thought it was a great prank, but to be that they would have had to start with a 60's Masi.

Deep V's forever bro!