[CR]Any Gios and Allegro fans out there? A large stash of NOS and vintage stuff available

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From: Tom Sanders <tsan7759142@comcast.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:39:55 -0500
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Subject: [CR]Any Gios and Allegro fans out there? A large stash of NOS and vintage stuff available

I just had an interesting discovery. While chasing a couple of small parts, I entered into some communication with a fellow named Glenn Barr who used to have a bike shop in Cedar Rapids Iowa called Bicycle Peddlers. He and his partner apparently bought out a Colnago/Allegro dealer in Ohio named Jim's Pro bikes from a gentleman named Jim Beras. Some of these names will no doubt be familiar to some of you. They were not to me. There were apparently a lot of bikes that came to Bicycle peddlers new in boxes. Most of the larger and smaller ones were sold off over the years. What remains is largely in the 54cm size range, which reflects the size of Glenn and his partner. Now they are selling these. They have set up a web site showing some of them, but he tells me that there are many that have not made it onto the site yet. The NOS ones are wonderful, but the real stunner is a red with chrome lugs '60s Allegro that is at the top of the page. It is about as pretty as any bike I have seen in a long time. I understand that the '60s one is the only one that has been refinished...it had to have a repaint and Jim Cunningham did it for him, as the original finished had been ruined by hanging over the desk of a chain smoker for decades. Ah, the evil of nicotine! At any rate the bikes may be seen at http://www.531forever.com/bikes.HTM. They just sold one of the Allegros in a smoke finish on E-Bay recently and it may be seen as item # 7119124755. I am not sure what the prices are on any of this stuff. I believe the smoked Allegro went for just under $1200. There is a Gios Blue Super Record bike on the site that is tres cool and even if you don't wish to buy a new bike, that '60s Allegro is just a must see thing of beauty.
Tom Sanders
Lansing, Mi