Originally Posted by
BikeWise1
A Euro brand?
Like Motobecane, Bottecchia, Masi, Bianchi, Kuota, Pinarello, et. al.? The Euro brands that virtually exist only as brands? Most of their frames are Asian. Nothing wrong with that-they're fine frames, but puhleeze-enough
with the Euro mystique. It began dying with Faliero Masi having his best frames built in the US (!) and hasn't been the same since...
At least the nice Madones are still actually fabricated and painted by people who work for (as in are on the payroll of) the company on the downtube....sort of like the French and Italians used to do....
I think we're done with the valley-girl speak in this day and age.