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Masi-Confente-Medici Story--Drama
If you like bike drama, this is about as good as it gets. Get a bag of popcorn and 30 minutes of your time and have fun reading about the Masi story, along with a few side stories that will make it worth your time.
http://www.raydobbins.com/ebay/medici/medici_story.htm |
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There was so much valuable information in the bikelist.org CR archives. I wonder if there's any way that someone can retrieve them? Or are they gone forever? If so, it's really a shame.
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I recently got most of the old CR archives back up, with no concern for modern HTML sensibilities:
http://www.smontanaro.net/ It should be Google searchable, e.g.: site:www.smontanaro.net Confente |
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I am fortunate to have met several members of that story, and once owned a Confente track with a road fork; purchased by me when living in Monterey, and built at Farrier's place. I could not bring myself to ride it, and sold it when we moved to Ohio and I needed a tractor. One of 135. I didn't know that at the time. It was a beautiful bike no doubt. I did handle one of Boyer's stars painted bikes he had, as Mario made him several. There's an awful lot of ugly drama in that story, however it's relevant to history and does make for an interesting read.
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Wow.
Kinda makes me feel better about having a Panasonic built Peleton... |
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My sister has a beautiful Medici with eggshell base and splatter finish. She had it cold set to 130mm a few years ago and a 6700 group installed. She travels and is considering sending it off for coupling.
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I'm with @LouDeeter here. There are bazillions of bikes out there, but, what, 135 Confentes? Most anybody who owns one will almost certainly have other bikes which ride as well (or better - only a few were built as customs for their current owners, so fit might be a compromise). Why not hold it out as an example of Mario Confente's craftsmanship (and often Brian Baylis's, Joe Bell's or others who may well have refinished many of them by this point)?
Maybe you ride it once in a blue moon, and only on the most pleasant of days. Most of the time it hangs on your wall or in your man cave. Your daily rider is that beat up Schwinn Super Sport or that ho-hum Serotta Otrott. |
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go on to link below
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Mario Confente
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