bradford,
The Masi decal that appears with only the "Masi" is the standard decal with everything else cutoff. That is not the "norm" but was done periodically for various reasons. On a track frame, that would be the treatment. If the painter was using varnish fix decals and was having trouble with the border lines of the original decals they may have opted to cut the rest off. Employee bikes would de done that way by request at times. There you go.
Brian Baylis
La Mesa, CA
Whassa mattaah youse guys? No rain and quite beautiful in San Diego
today.
>
> The Masi "D7822" on Ebay has something in common with the bike featured in
> "Breaking Away" (which may also be a 1978): the downtube decal appears to
> just be the word "MASI", without all the flags and the "Gran Criterium".
> This is most visible in the second (and darker) picture of the entire bike.
>
> I thought the movie bike had just been modified for some reason, but now I
> gather it was a standard factory treatment?
>
> Brad Stockwell
> (now hosting "61 MC96")
> Palo Alto