Re: [CR]A few Masi mysteries...

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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 06:57:12 -0800
From: "jj and kk" <designzero@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]A few Masi mysteries...
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>Jim Allen wrote afew posts that help clear things up:
>
>
>I think I remember this frame. It's possible it was built with the
>brazeons added, or one very similar was done.
>
>The blue background decals were rarely used, but they are not rare. I've
>got literally hundreds of them.
>Both the Carlsbad era varnish transfers and the later San Marcos era
>waterslides.
>
>The decals on the bike in the pictures appear to be the waterslide
>decals. In those decals the yellow was a bit paler, more lemon colored
>as opposed to the earlier and later more orangish yellow decals.
>
>Records of bikes - my computer database goes back to 1988, I've got some
>paper records that I've been meaning to enter for years, to many other
>projects have gotten in the way of that.
>
>

This bike, silver with the blue background downtube panel and rack braze ons is pretty unusual then.

Interesting about the yellow, all of the earlier bikes I have seen have the "paler" yellow, it was the later bikes where I have seen the switch in color. Do the waterslide decals account for the layers of clear over them to protect? Or was that what the market wanted?

I left out Ted Kirkbride in my partial Masi alumni list as his position was not typical of an average employee.

John Jorgensen
Palos Verdes Ca USA