Re: [CR]Fake GIOS -> Miele -> Gardin?

(Example: Framebuilders:Alex Singer)

Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:23:58 -0400
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Fake GIOS -> Miele -> Gardin?
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At 06:53 PM 28/06/2007 -0400, oroboyz@aol.com wrote:
>Now, Gardin was started up about what year and went out of biz when??

Not sure exactly when. I did hear something about frames breaking, which may have led to their demise. I have a Gardin wall poster from 1993 showing all the models, lugged, welded, Ti, a couple of frames, so it would have been sometime after that.

John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada