Re: [CR]GIOS color options

(Example: Racing:Jacques Boyer)

From: <themaaslands@comcast.net>
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org (Classic Rendezvous)
Subject: Re: [CR]GIOS color options
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 00:25:49 +0000


Scott asked:
> Have a GIOS question for the list:
>
> I have a 1981 GIOS Super Record and I wonder if besides white with blue
> panels, if these frames were ever available in any color other than,'GIOS
> Blue'. Certainly before they sponsored the Brooklyn team in '73 they painted
> their frames...

Gios was a newcomer to racing bikes when they began to 'sponsor' the Brooklyn team. Up until then, they had made mainly children's and city roadsters. The Brooklyn team bikes came about because of the relationship of the Gios brothers with the main sponsor of Brooklyn. You can read about it on their website: http://www.gios.it I mentioned earlier today that Marnati was the main frame builder for Gios at the time.
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Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ