This Green Frame is one of two prototypes from Cinelli that arrived to the old MASH shop on 14th st. on September 20th 2012. One for me and one for Walton Brush. Mike who runs MASH was out of town when the box arrived… The frames arrived bare, raw a
Of course the first thing we do it rush out to buy spray paint so we can customize our frames. We went with a 2 toned 2 sided fade, my bike was green and Waltons was blue. We drug a bike stand in front of the shop, went to town and when Mike came ba
Mike’s addition to the project was providing us with a ton of slick dye cut stickers. It was his idea to throw the Cinelli sticker down the head tube and fork, it was a perfect fit. This was the first tapered head tube track bike that we knew of.
The tube-set was based on Cinelli’s new (at the time) aluminum road bikes, we then incorporated a number of proprietary tubes, like the massive down tube. Walton, Mike and I had all grown up idolizing bikes likes the 93 Cannondale track and KHS Aero
Cinelli gave us pretty much carte blanch when it came to the geometry of the new frame. At the time all of our experience had been on super aggressive track frames, kierin frames from Japan had been our Ferrari’s. Thinking that if we combined the
While this frame was designed with fixed gear criterium racing in mind, MASH has always been from the streets. And once we got these frames and started ripping on them we found out they were lean mean street shredding machines. The super tight geome
This bike was a dream come true, how often do you get to design your dream bike and then have it shipped to your door? Unfortunately as with most dreams reality can be a harsh awakening. While this bike RIPPED the streets, the super aggressive ge
While at Cinelli designing the frame Walton and I spent over an hour debating seat tube angles… Rainier was not nearly as interested in the details as we were and caught a quick nap in the Cinelli HQ hallway.
Fijate 2012 in Puerto Rico was the first time out for the new frame, and it performed admirably! I took 2nd in the Alleycat and 1st in the Criterium. Testing was going well, street racing and criterium racing in the same event gave me a good oppor
Red Hook Milan 2012 was the day before my birthday and also the first time we raced the frames on the international stage. This was the very beginning of team tactics in Red Hook’s and we brought 5 racers out. I remember with 2 laps to go we had a
Walton really liked having brake hoods to rest on while crushing so he mounted a pair of TRP levers to his bars, even going so far as to zip tying the levers into position so they wouldn’t move. Race officials were less than excited but since these
Once we had ironed out some of the kinks my prototype was retired from the criterium circuit and stuck strictly to street shredding. Alleycats, shifts on the road at TCB and courier championships like NACCC were all shredded hard as the spray paint
John Watson came through SF and managed to catch the build early on before it got too thrashed. It is funny to see how build styles change over the years. Low flange fixed/fixed DuraAce track hubs laced to Mavic CXP30’s with GXP5000 700x25c tires
I realize now years later that I had these ergo bars turned WAY too far down, but at the time it seemed to make all the sense in the world.
Somethings never change though.. Sugino 75 track cranks, 44RN chainring, pure class and style. I have the same body dimensions I had back then, but now I always run a set back seat post and a 110mm stem (this is a 100mm). I wonder how it would feel
This was right before I took the leap into road pedals on my track bike, I was all ways Time ATAC on all my bikes. For work, for alleycats, for criteriums, it just made sense. But to be real I was also V scared of the road pedals and trying to clip
Once we had finalized the changes we wanted to make for production (mainly loosening the geometry to make it more stable in criterium racing) and Garret Chow had designed the graphics it was time for the team to show up and look legit. There were o
For the production models all the graphics would be properly printed and sealed onto the frames. But for these team frames most if not all of the graphics were applied as stickers so make the deadline. When they were new you couldn’t tell the diff
Mike had the idea to base the Parralax design on the parralax effect in photography and the artwork was an interpretation of the focal parts of a camera lens. Garret Chow designed the frame and kits for the team to look pro AF when we showed up to
This was our first solid push as a team for RHC so MASH went all the way with support from HED in the form of some seriously pro tubular track wheels. For all of us this was our first time racing criterium on tubular wheels and for my first foray in
Castelli cam through with team issue skin suits, with the exception of my MTB shoes and pedals the whole team looked super pro!
Rainier got 3rd and Kyle got 5th in an explosive race where longtime messenger hero FISH took an unexpected win against a stacked field. This was the first time RHC had stopped in Barcelona and while the race was exciting the after party is what k
The team continued to campaign the team issued frames all RHC season. For us just the feeling of suiting up in a speed suit that matched your bike, your saddle and you bar tape was a special feeling, from street shredding to pro looking criterium
Dylan was not part of the team that went to Barcelona for RHC in 2013, but he made his mark with a team issue parralax. While a lot of frame designs in the years after we launched the parralax focused on lengthening the frames, incorporating more o
I as well kept my team frame and continued to race criteriums and alleycats on it for years after the initial launch. I still have the skin suit as well and maybe one day i’ll bring it all back out for a rip down memory lane.
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