London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

Someone knows where to get the Masi Coltello frame in europe / usa? Any online-stores?

Best.

i dont think masi are imported into the uk properly yet
but i imagine they will be this or next year

It's Massi. I've ridden a Massi M-Carbon in Mallorca. Great bike.

Oops. Two different companies.

Two very different companies...

We have nobody in the UK as of yet, however we are diligently working to correct that little problem.

Our (Masi') parent company is Haro Bicycles and Haro is distributed in the UK via Moore-Large. We are working with them to hopefully have them distributing Masi in the near future as well. Stay tuned on that and please do not lose hope in having Masi on British shores again. Besides, if it works out, it gives me a great reason to get over to England and brin my own fixed gear along with.

Thanks for posting the question; hopefully we'll be able to get the bikes/ frames into the UK this year... that's our goal.

Tim Jackson- aka Masiguy

By "brin" I mean BRING... of course...

mate i cant wait seems such good value for money !

Tim, as you know, I'm a huge Masi fan, and even have started a controversial thread about OTP's possibly reaching the "class" of Custom bikes.
The consensus is that they're not there as yet. I did however use the Masi Speciale Fixed Ltd as one of the examples.

See here:
http://www.londonfgss.com/post452902-45.html
http://www.londonfgss.com/post476946-1.html

Please let me know when these are on their way to the UK.

Cheers.

Masi's new bikes page, with given weights, and auto-changing colours.

Can this thread be resurrected I wonder? We are now a quarter on from February, Haro have a good presence in the UK, surely it wouldn't be hard to get something going with Masi. The market is, I think perfect for them.
I'll have the first Speciale Fixed in Shamrock Green please... Tim, are you there..?

Wildgoose, I've emailed Tim, but he's on holiday at the moment. Hopefully he will post on here when he's returned.

Watching the Hutchinson tires ad the other day prompted me to drop Masi an email about when they might be getting the bikes in to the UK. Here's Tim's response which I hope he doesn't mind me posting.

Is the Speciale Commuter the first OTP 'conversion'?

I think the Salsa Casseroll beat them to it.

theres a condor singlespeed thats a conversion aswell!

I'd have one of those masis if it wasnt for the cable guides. The one on the Hutchison ad is awesome. Love the checkered fork.

fork is just a sticker surely?

Its not the stock fork. Its some fat, straight blade thing.

That'll be me. (a la lee)

not quite, it doesn't have a gear hanger thought and singlespeed bicycle tend to have horizontal dropout, only track bicycle have track-end (until recently that is).

i thought it did have a gear hanger and was basically just one of there touring frames but fixed/singlespeed

any more news on this?
I'm really keen on that orange Masi frame...

if you want a Masi, you're going to have to order one from a shop in America and be prepared to pay the shipping and import tax. I spoke to Haro Bikes in the USA who distribute them and Moore Large in the UK who deal with Haro but they were completely unhelpful and I despite putting a lot of time into ringing them, I didn't get anywhere

That's bad news - I have a feeling they'd be extremely popular over here.

Thats what I said to the people at Masi, Haro and Moorelarge. They didn't care.

I think it's because there's no need, also I feel it's the same reason why the GT Gutterball isn't sold here; because of the Charge Plug (own by the same company).

lol.

I wish they would focus on making some nice bikes, instead of creating the garish "fixies" we like to to keep in the anti-porn section.

This is a fixie:


So is this:


Masi have so much potential, such a great name and quality frames.

But why all this Oury, DeepV, white chain, messenger cranks, garish OTT colourschemes, fugly drops, hybrid geometry shit?

POC.

I agree a lot of their complete bikes look shit. The special spint and coltello look great though

why the fuck would you want one? It's a top tube short of being proper pengy.

Why cant they make something of this standard?

or this: http://www.classicrendezvous.com/ima...ASI_RexG_1.jpg

cos they're not italian anymore

Masi moved to california in 1972. The red bike is a 1978 gran criterium (as featured in braking away).

Tim Jackson left us hanging :(

what I hate about it is that it look more;



than;



The Bianchi, even though it's overpriced and not quite pretty, still is the best looking OTP that managed to look a bit classic despite the ahead stem, fork, tig weld, etc.

something like this 2010 Wilier then?

will any bike manufacuter ever get it consistantly right again?

Condor did with their classic road and track bike.

its very subjective whether or not something is right anyway. tbh who gives a shit if people are making bad looking bikes? it makes it more of a challenge to find something that is nice (to you)

I think the Condor Classico pista is the best example of a modern steel track bike I have seen. It is as perfect as I could imagine, and pretty fucken sexy.

I think the willier there is trying to hard to be retro, and the styling is strongly clashing with the components. I think a modern steel road bike needs to be styled to compliment the components.

This happens well when they are going purely for function, just look at when steel bikes were still used in elite cycling. You had bikes and components that looked shit hot together.

To see a sexy modern metal bike these days, you have to usually look at a titanium bike. Manufacturers seem to have the right mindset then, building a bike that has complimentary parts and an overall unified "look". It may be an accidental by product of following function/engineering. Who knows?

But I actually think that salsa up there looks a lot better than the Masi lineup too. Because it seems more refined and not trying to be retro or be fixie-fad. It looks elegant and good to ride.

This is my Masi Fixed Drop, it should be returning from the US soon. It is just beautiful...