GIOS cycle

Description

Bicycle from the year 90 , gift of professional Roberto Visentin , mounts the best components of the time A few facts about the Gios company . Tolmino Gios was born in Vittorio Veneto on March 4, 1916 . In the 1930s he combined his work as a butcher with his passion for cycling and his results were immediately surprising , in 1936 he won the prestigious "COPPA del RE" , at an astonishing average of 42 km per hour , and was called up in the Italian team for the Berlin Olympics of the same year ; in 1937 he turned professional in the Legnano of Bartali and Guerra, participating in the great classics and the Giro d'Italia, as well as in 1938 in the ranks of Wolsit - Binda, like many cyclists of that era his career was soon interrupted by the war. After the war he opened his first store in Turin , which would see its greatest expansion in the 1970s when it would also take the classic Gios blue color to match the pro team sponsored by Chewing Gum BROOKLYN of Giorgio Perfetti's firm . Several champions will use the Gios such as : Roger De Vlaeminck , Andy Hanmpsten, Roberto Visen-tini, Stephen Roche, Micael Pollentier, Laudelino Cubino, Fer-nando Escartin, "Chepe" Gonzalez, Roberto Heras, Ivan Quaran-ta and Francisco Mancebo . Several are Gios's innovations from the late 1970s onward , in 1979 he developed the first fork head with a hollow in the upper part, so as to further reduce its weight and facilitate the welding process; in 1982 he designed the first internal wire-rods pass to the horizontal tube with watertight grommets and in 1983 the microfusion bottom bracket box with a jumper incorporated in it, which makes the rear carriage more rigid and in 1986 the legendary GIOS compact dropout, the world's first adjustable and itercible dropout.