• The hint is in 'nowadays', the Gios Compact was made by Gios, in Italy. I suspect that small but significant parts of Gios_Compact were made there as well. I believe it was as close as Gios got to making a mass-market frame and a lot of them were exported. The choice now is; get a Gios, made by the eponymous Marco in Italy for more money than I shall ever possess, or buy something from a gentleman in the Far East who bought some naming rights.

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