Morgan wrote:
> I recently told the story(1) of acquiring Gregor Braun's old team
> Moser. It's a 1981 bike built just two years after Francesco Moser launched
> his bicycle company, while Moser was still racing. I'd wondered who
> actually built the Moser, for Braun.
>
> Two Sundays ago I did the Silicon Valley ride(2), and brought the Moser. I
> should mention that I don't know much about road bikes from before around
> 1985, since that's when I started riding and racing them. Peter Johnson
> took a quick scan of the Moser in the parking lot, felt the diamond shaped
> stays and suggested it may have been built at De Rosa.
More likely would be the builder of the Benotto team bikes that Moser had ridden on prior to 'earning' the right to bikes with his own name. The Benotto frames also had the diamond-shaped stays. It has been mentioned previously that this builder worked at/with/alongside De Rosa either before or during his Benotto team bike framebuilding stint.
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Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ