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Lunch time
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Marco had organized a second wonderful lunch at the restaurant next door to the shop and then issued prizes for best bike, best restoration, special awards for those that had helped out etc. I'll add more photos later if I can load them.
To end this, I should say that even though they were incredibly busy, Marco and Aldo went out of their way to make me feel welcome and very much a part of the wider Gios family. Having been a part of this fantastic event, I came away with an even greater enthusiasm for this iconic and wonderful bike. I have enough bikes for a lifetime but if I ever was going to buy another new one, it could now only ever be an Italian Gios.
On returning to the UK I went in search of a small frame Gios Super Record for my wife but that's another story for later in this thread.
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OK so Saturday continues
Travelling to Bardonecchia
/attachments/78368The mass brawl for plastic tat and shrink wrapped olives that had been lobbed out by the caravan girls
/attachments/78367Rodriguez pulling on the front in his BMX hat
/attachments/78366Watching the end of the race in a bar in Oulx because the snow stopped me getting to the finish
/attachments/78369Sunday morning dawned warm and dry(ish) after the rain and snow the day before. What a fantastic party the Gios boys threw! Roger De Vlaeminck was on hand to sign stuff, pose for photos and generally chat with anyone (I'd post my picture here but I look a right fat b**tard stood at the side of him).
Several of Roger's old Brooklyn team-mates were also there
http://www.giostorino.it/component/content/article/6-novita/92-radunoRoger waved us off and we followed Marco's red Beetle into the Italian countryside and to a lunch of focaccia and red wine by a lake.
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Marvellous.Can you post some more photographs and maybe tell the story of your trip or your bike build or both please?
Thanks. I'll start with the bike. I bought it from a guy in Germany. There were lots of bikes and frames on eBay & the net but this one was original. It has a few scrapes but they add character. I sent some photos to Marco (Gios) and he confirmed it was an original 1978 model Super Record. He also entered it into the Gios Historic Register.
I re-laced the rims (rusty chrome spokes), fitted nos brake levers (badly scraped), nos gear levers, bottle, cage, cables, brake blocks & bar ends & toe strap buttons from Dave Marsh, gum hoods (ebay), nos Binda straps (ebay) and then pantographed the stem, gear levers, chainwheel and even the toe strap buttons (yes, sad I know). Wimborne Engraving have all of the images set up ready to go for anyone else interested in getting some done. I'll post some pics of this later but I'm really chuffed with the work.
Everything was completed just in time for the 65th Anniversary which Marco had sent out an invite to anyone on the Gios historic register to attend.
Cheap flights to Turin from Stansted and a cheap hotel near the airport cost less than £200 total for a long weekend. Anyone wanting to travel I can recommend the Hotel Atlantic in Borgaro. It's a short bus ride with your bike box from the airport, the rooms are good, breakfast was great and b&b cost €55/night for a double room. Gios are an easy 15km ride away in Volpiano.
A week before I flew out, I stumbled over a preview for the upcoming Giro D'Italia. The race was due to pass fairly close to Turin on the day before the Gios event and so a plan came together. Fly in early Saturday, rent cheap car for the day, hotel check in, quick trip to Gios shop to avoid expected crowd the next day, drive to Bardonecchia to watch Saturday Giro stage finish, back to hotel, ride Sunday & quick site seeing trip into Turin, home early Monday.
Saturday in pictures:
Gios shop at just about opening time
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/attachments/78362Some shots of the shop
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Visited Gios in May for the 65th Anniversary Ride. Aldo and Marco are true gentlemen and went out of their way to make me welcome.
We were waved off by Mr Paris Roubaix himself
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Decided to fit an old Stronglight chainset to my Gios to get lower gearing. It looked shit so I took the drill to it last night and now I have to say it looks orgasmic. Will post pics later.
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Hey Motta. Has the bike sold yet? If not I'm interested. If it has I'd still love to know where I can get one of those display stands from.
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I'm in - paid up, booked up and ready to go!
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Registered last night. The web site lets you list other riders so you CAN all register in a group so no worries about groups getting split by individual applications.
Me. Registration opens tonight at midnight I think.