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Originally Posted by Ed Bighi
Tanabe-san, owner of the Kalavinka "factory." Every frame by every builder like Yanagisawa, Watanabe, Level, Kiyo Myazawa, Makino, and a few more are made like this. In 2009, this sort of thing is literally like going back to the sixties and vistiting Faliero Masi under the Vigorelli velodrome to get a tailored frame.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AkdHSoSGhI |
His son is still there when I visited his shop under the Vigorelli velodrome in Milan 6-7 years ago. That and Casati were must see places for me and drove my grl friend nuts. Masi is truly a master. I wanted a custom frame build by him so bad but just didn't have the time to wait for it. shipping was crazy money.