Where the logic is in claiming this treatment of the seat stay to be "Masi" style ?
There appears to be plenty of evidence - both anecdotal and real to show that this style was more commonplace some twenty years if not longer, before Masi claims to have "designed" them. duh - Am I missing something here ? This is surely just another case of a framebuilder picking up and running with a design feature that was clearly plagerised from somewhere or someone else ? Hardly innovative, and not uncommon, though perhaps it was in mid 60's Italy. A style or feature used by Masi but hardly a unique "Masi" style.
The best example I have (of course) is of a Flying Scot - one of many produced in 1947 (around 1000 that year apparently) with the same treatment to the end of the stay, in the last year or so before they changed to the semi-wrapround. These are not crudely bashed steel caps by any manner.
see ;
http://www.flying-scot.co.uk/
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Bob Reid
Stonehaven
Scotland
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The Flying Scot Website - http://www.flying-scot.co.uk/