Masi Team V3 1995

I hope my Italian is OK, anyway it's beautiful.

Antonio Mondonico used pins in his frame building. After he got the tubes and lugs aligned, he would drill and insert a little steel pin to keep it aligned for brazing. It's an old method of framebuilding, and he was about the only guy that still did it. I have a mondonico fork, and there is a peg visible or feelable inside the bottom of the steering tube, it held the steering tube in alignment with the fork crown. It is about 3 mm in diameter, and 3 0r 4 mm long. If you can take off the front wheel and look up the bottom of the steering tube, you should see the pin if Mondonico built it. If you take apart your bottom bracket some day you could probably see some others.