Anyone know how Frejus is meant to be pronounced in Italian? I had assumed it was pronounced like the French town, freh-ZHEW, but having learnt that it isn't named after anything French at all and given that the "j" ( i lunga ) isn't actually even a letter in Italian, and further that the ultimate syllable in Italian is seldom stressed without an accented vowel it gets pretty hard to guess.
Kurt Sperry Bellingham, Washington USA
2009/8/13 <NHell39123@aol.com>:
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> Here is a story for the Frejus cognescenti. I made a yearly pilgrimage to
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> International Bike Show at the Coliseum in NYC throughout the 1970s and
> 1980s. I'm sure older CR members remember this scene. The public was not
> allowed in,but Tom Avenia gave me his business card and on the back he wrote
> that Norman Hellman worked for him. That is how I was able to go the show.In
> 1978, I was at the Gios exhibit and met Alfredo Gios. Alfredo asked what
> kind of bike did I ride. I told him a Frejus Supercorsa. His eyes lit up, he
> cracked a wide smile and said "La bicicletta di Ercole Baldini." Che
> Bella!!!!!Remember that the Gios brothers came from Torino where Frejus bikes
> were made. Norm Hellman-Riverdale,New York.