[CR]GRANDIS

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From: "Angel Garcia" <veronaman@comcast.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <20040922091711.59317.qmail@web81003.mail.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:52:31 -0400
Subject: [CR]GRANDIS

I visited Grandis in May; they are located in Verona. The shop was quite busy and they were in the process of opening a larger, second, store. They had a full line of bikes which they build: steel, aluminum, and carbon. They were all beautifully made. The steel bikes were TIG welded except for the BBs that were lugged (they did make a fully lugged bike until recently and it may still be available). They specialize in making bikes to measure....you see a model and then get measured and then they build it. If I understood one of the sons correctly they have so much business within Italy that they are not interested in exporting (which they did in the past). I was impressed with the number of roadies that were constantly streaming into the store which had tons of "stuff".
Angel Garcia
Long Valley, NJ