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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provocative imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.

Bicycle Makers · Italy
Everything Ebykr holds on Masi: two articles, a Timeline of 14 dated events from 1919 to 1988 and 11 documents in the archive.
The history of Masi on Ebykr.

Faliero Masi, tailor to Coppi, Anquetil and Merckx beneath the Vigorelli, and what followed: the California Masis, Breaking Away and the 3V Volumetrica.
Grouped by format, the most read first.

A timeline of Masi from Faliero Masi's shop under Milan's Vigorelli velodrome through Carlsbad and Breaking Away to Alberto Masi's 3V Volumetrica.
Where Masi is named outside its own pages: seven articles and one archive document from one other maker.
The articles that name Masi most often first.
…to hire help and move to a facility able to handle the increased production demand. Masi, California and a Painter Named Cunningham · The next leap forward in Confente's life came when he started producing…
…a rider had. Milan's other great name worked the same seam from the other side. Faliero Masi, "The Tailor" beneath the Vigorelli velodrome, built for riders whose contracts kept his name off their frames. By the…
…the TI-Raleigh team put its gears on Raleigh's whole range of Reynolds 531 bicycles. A Masi brochure from California put it most memorably: the bicycles came with Campagnolo components, because "Anything less…
…with the Italian-based Dragonetti covering wide reaching topics like aesthetics, Masi catalogs, uncelebrated heroes and the future of his Cicli su Carta project. Given Dragonetti's unwavering appreciation…
…of classic lightweight Italian bicycle builders: Cino Cinelli, Ernesto Colnago, Alberto Masi and Ugo De Rosa. Twelve pages from the 1984 De Rosa catalog, covering frame photography, the brazing production stage…
…later Colnago was named second mechanic on the Nivea team under the legendary Faliero Masi, founder and namesake of Masi Bicycles. Colnago went on to become head mechanic for the Molteni team in 1963, the team…
…Daniel Rebour's technical illustrations, Brooks and Idéale saddles, California Masi, Lefol fender patterns, 650B vs. 700c wheel sizes, Hetchin's fabulous lugwork and BridgestoneUSA under Grant Petersen.
Filed under other makers whose words name Masi; the biggest share first.
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