[CR]Re:Merckx, Masi, DeRosa

(Example: Framebuilding:Brazing Technique)

From: <BobHoveyGa@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:39:21 EST
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re:Merckx, Masi, DeRosa

In a message dated 3/4/03 1:16:58 PM, The Great and Powerful Lou Deeter writes:
> I suppose I always thought that the Merckx design was more influenced
>by Ugo Derosa than by Masi, but then, maybe Derosa was influenced by Masi.
>

According to Faliero, that would be a big "yes he was"... In an interview in an old "Winning" magazine (sept 84 I think), Faliero tells the interviewer, "DeRosa copied my special fork head" ... "I called him on the phone and told him he was a !!*#%!"

Bob Hovey
Columbus, GA