>From Roueleur, Issue 15:
In 1972 the founder of the Brooklyn tea., Edigio Perfetti, after seeing a custom "chopper bike" made by Gios, approached Aldo Gios at the Milan bike show about building frames for his new team:
"Perfetti was talking about getting this rider, that rider, the best ones around....We had no experience of building road frames ourselves, because we'd always had a local artisan, a guy named Pela, to build them - we just designed them, painted them and sold them in the Gios shop downtown. Thankfully, I had two mates who had worked for him and were really brilliant frame builders. I immediately offered them jobs and they taught me and my brother how to build bikes."
BTW...the article has some great pixs.
Jeff Holt
West Deptford, NJ
USA