Originally Posted by
Mad Honk
...We have a rather transient population here in a college town and all sorts of bikes wind up orphans.
Indeed. My Masi was found abandoned in a Harvard dorm by one of the maintenance workers. It had been abused. One can image the stereotype rich kid Harvard student who didn't care, maybe didn't have room in his car when he moved out, and so left it behind. The guy who found it held onto it for maybe 30 years, apparently with intent to restore it. Then it went to someone else in return for a favor, and that guy eventually gave it to me. I restored it, though not to original spec.