I bought one of those orange Gios bikes from a craigslist seller a couple of years ago. Someone had replaced the cheapo crankset with a very nice Stronglight 49D, and the bar and stem was a nice wide TTT. Looked like a someone's project to dress up a clunker, but the bike weighed about 40 pounds. Kept the good parts and donated the rest to the local bike coop.
BTW, the bike had a decal that looked for all the world like Reynolds 531...correct size and color, but it said "Not built with Reynolds 531 frame tubes".
Pat Moffat Tempe Arizona USA Getting a late start on my daily ride...108F. this afternoon. ----- Original Message ----- From: P.C. Kohler<mailto:kohl57@starpower.net> To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org<mailto:Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 7:26 PM Subject: [CR] Gios Before Brooklyn
If you Gios fans ever wanted an idea of the kind of bicycle Gios made before the glory days of Brooklyn and Roger de Vlaeminck, this current eBay (US) auction gives you a rare (in the USA) example. This colour was THE Gios trademark one before the Brooklyn cobalt blue. But looking at this, it was quite a leap to the pro racing circuit for what was hitherto a low-end, high-volume manufacturer was it not?
http://ebay.com/
or
http://tinyurl.com/
Peter Kohler
Washington DC USA
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