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Originally Posted by cantdrv55
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When I was over in Milan a good few years ago, I went to visit Masi the old man at his shop under the milan velodrome. His shop's been there since his dad. The real "old man Masi". There are photos of Merckx and Coppi and such. I got measured up for a custom frame. It ended up to be too much money because he had to ship it back and the tax would have killed me. The frame would be 3500 to built, but to ship and tax was like close to $800.00. I really wanted a Casati custom built at his shop. It was way too much. won my first (jr) USCF race with a Casati in 1983. De Rosa, and such they are all up in that area within an hour from Milan. I spend 3 -4 days just doing that. My wife, girl friend then was cool about it as she went shopping. all day long.
I have ridden steel all my life and crashed many of them over the years. dished out lots of pain on steel for them boys and received much much more hurt then I was able to dish out. That's all there were. I like carbon. Still have my look 171 Jalabert special. I like it for those really really long rides. No ti. Never ridden one hard. I really love my Torelli alum. w/ carbon stays. tracks really nice flying down canyons. Corners by itself almost.
It really depends on what type of riding you want to do. If you want to do club training rides (similar to canyon carving in our 911 driving hard) then any frame you ride is forgotten because you will be suffering so bad that the only thing you will remember is the wheel in front of you, then your breathing. If you want to go our for a couple of hours by yourself or a couple of friends, put in a few miles and enjoy the day and push a little bit, That's when you will get to enjoy the frame/bike.