Hello, I apologize if this post is not meant to be here but I was cleaning out our garage and found this bike. I don’t know much about bicycles other than the basics so if this is a cool bike or has any story I’d love to know 👍🏼 thank you.
by Downtown_Evening_281
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Masi was a quality brand, tbh I don’t know a ton about it though.
This has Shimano’s early eighties quirky aerodynamic “AX” line of parts, which are basically the first group to ever care about aerodynamics.
Some of these parts are kind of valuable- and funnily enough that water bottle is kind of sought after. That bike is probably worth at least a few hundred bucks, maybe more if it’s in good ready to ride condition.
I usually complain that Masi bikes need to be orange but in this case I’ll make an exception. Looks like a beauty. For more info post on r/vintage_bicycles.
It’s really a great bike. Tune it and send it!
Beautiful, it is not just any Old bike, its a MASI grand crit and it belonged to someone quite tall. The shift levers are campy otherwise looks like shimano ax which was a quirky group but well built. I think I still have some old ax parts in the basement somewhere. You should be able to get a fair amount out of it if that is your goal They may sound like an Italian bike but they were made in california but by an Italian guy trained in Italy in the business. You may get more for it on the west coast then east as they were better known there. I have only seen a few over the years while riding up and down the us east coast.
What a beauty!