[CR]Gios

(Example: Racing)

From: <Cushdelmar@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 17:38:09 EDT
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Gios

I have an early 80's Gios Compact but it seems like this bike is still being made. Am I right? I also have a bent seat tube Paramount. What year was this made? I raced it for a couple of seasons in the early 80's but never grew attached to it. I'm hoping I can find the Huret front derailleur for it because it didn't seem like anything else worked. But then I have the same Huret front derailleur on my Bob Jackson bent seat tube racing tandem but it never did work well. And I guess I better hang on to my first track bike: a Paramount made in the mid or early 60's and now sitting on a turbo trainer covered with 20 years of sweat. I suppose it was a sin, but I brazed on a rear derailleur hanger and used it as a crit bike for years. With its 11 inch bottom bracket, I could pedal through most turns.

Jim Cushing-murray