I wouldn't buy it for collection purposes. However, if it was built by Mondonico, I wouldn't hesitate to get it as a rider. That, of course, is predicated on the assumptions that I had enough coin and needed both a 45th or so bicycle _and_ a second Mondonico (have a 2000 EL-OS w/ full Record kit).
I'm going to try to stop at one Masi anyway - the '77 California GC that Brian repaired and refinished about a year ago and still isn't built yet.
Charlie Young
Honeybrook, PA
> here's a question i've wanted to ax for a while and
>
> it's prompted by this ebay item:
> to what end would you go to have one of these in your
> stable, and why?
>
> i'm interested strictly on an academic level; this frame
> is so many generations removed from the "original" gc's,
> (and yes - i know there's some ambiguity regarding the
> timeline for that era's demise...). it's clearly produced
> by a company whose lineage is long removed from the
> eponymous firm. what is the motivation behind buying
> or collecting these (types of) frames if they are clearly
> made for the license and for the market? i'm not anti
> those reasons but since i like masis so much these
> (frames like the ebay one) leave me wondering.
> lemme know, eh!
> e-RICHIE
> chester, ct