Chuck Schmidt wrote:
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> John Barron wrote:
> >
> > I've posted a few more interesting tidbits about my virgin 1972 Masi GC:
> >
> > Some other facts: The bottom bracket shell width is 70mm, (as expected),
> > the bottom bracket adjustable cup has a normal width lock ring- not an
> > extra thick one, and the headset has one washer, (although there are
> > 1972 Masis that came with 2 washers).
>
> Interesting John...
>
> I have two Masi G.C. that were built up at the Masi shop under the
> Vigorelli in Milan. A 1971 and a 1973 and they both have the extra
> thick (4mm) lock ring on the bottom bracket adjustable cup, two washers
> stacked on the headset, and right lever / front brake set-up. The '73
> also has one additional thing I have seen on one other Masi assembled at
> the shop: a black oxide finished allen head bolt and nut substituted for
> the front derailleur clamp bolt and nut.
I was just reminded by Jack Bissell that they also came with a cable keeper that pulled the housing together just above the stem (soft gray plastic with holes and a plastic rivet at each end).
You can just make it out where the cable housing comes out from under the handlebar at the bottom of the picture.
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Here's my sad story: A few of years ago I was overhauling the 1971 Masi just after buying it up in San Francisco. It had the grey plastic cable keeper, but at that time I didn't know it was a Masi Milano thing... I thought the previous owner, a doctor, had put on this strap thing he cobbled together from a hospital wrist band or something. So I just took the thing off and tossed it in the trash.
Two days later I was talking to Richie Sachs and we were comparing notes on our same year Masis and he mentioned the grey plastic cable keeper. Oh, mine is still outside in the trash. Oooops, trash pickup had been earlier the same day! Mine was history. Somewhere in some SoCal land fill is a Masi Milano grey plastic cable keeper... sniff... sniff... waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
Chuck Schmidt L.A.
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