The Argos name was formed from ARthur Needham and another guy whose first name I cannot remember but whose last name was GOss. This partnership did not last long. Argos Cycles was started in 1974 by Arthur Needham as an adjunct to his engineering business. They exported most of their early production to the US - Florida and California. In the late 70s they were one of the early builders in this country of the lo-profile frame for time trialling. They have also built frames which were sold under the Dave Lloyd name before he started building himself. Frames are all built in a jig with most of the custom frames now built by Gary Needham, Arthur¹s son. All the early frames were stock - these days they do both stock and custom frames. They have at several different times imported frames for stock but these normally bear a slightly different transfer. In recent times they have concentrated on building time trial frames building most of the recent frames for Stuart Dangerfield, one of Britain's top time triallists.
Hilary Stone, Bristol, England
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> Argos frames were imported by Larry Mersereau in San Rafael/Marin County
> California in the 70's when he couldn't get Ron Cooper to make enough frames
> to satisfy the demand. Coopers were very desirable in that period, and were
> considered the (first? only? best? you pick) Italian style race frame to
> come out of England in that time frame.
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> Argos reputedly came from the makers name, ARt GOSling, ( I could be off on
> the last name a bit, but you get the idea) and were made in England. They
> were priced a bit cheaper than Coopers and were much more available.
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> Ricardo Bulissimo, Verdi, Nevada