A few years ago I was planning to go cycling in the Barolo region and thought that I might go up to Turin and see the Gios plant. I sent an e-mail to Alfredo Gios beforehand and said I would call to confirm a time. Once in Italy, I called from my little B&B and, with some effort and in my carefully written-out-beforehand Italian, explained who I was and that I would like to see the factory. I don't think I sounded much like a competitive framebuilder, but Mr. Gios abruptly told me to get lost and ended the call.
Customer relations may not be everyone's forte, but I still think the frames are lovely.
Leslie Reissner
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:58:42 -0500
> From: jeff holt <jefflaw@msn.com>
> Subject: Re: [CR] Gios Frames
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> >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."
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> BTW...the article has some great pixs.
> Jeff Holt
> West Deptford, NJ
> USA