Gios

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Training bike of the professional cyclist and Olympic champion (four-man pursuit 1972) Günter Haritz : Gios frame in Gios blue with Torino inscription

The Gios company is an Italian bicycle manufacturer . Originally the manufacture was based in the province of Turin . Gios specializes in the manufacture of racing bikes . Most of the wheels are painted in a characteristic blue, which is why the term Gios blue has established itself in the cycling scene.

Today, two product lines are sold under the brand name of the umbrella brand Gios: Gios for the global market and Gios Torino exclusively for the Italian market.

history

In 1948, Tolmino Gios first laid the foundation stone for the company with a bicycle shop. The company has specialized in racing bikes since the early 1970s and has been providing the material for various racing teams ever since. Gios bikes achieved their greatest success in the late 1970s with the Brooklyn and IJsboerke racing stables. Roger De Vlaeminck and Patrick Sercu rode Brooklyn on Gios bikes . De Vlaeminck won in that time three times Paris-Roubaix on a Gios wheel and Milan-San Remo , the Tour of Flanders and the Tour of Lombardy . He finished second in the professional road world championships, won several stages and scored two points at the Giro d'Italia . The blue color of the Gios frames also comes from this time, as in the opinion of the owners at the time it went best with the blue-white-red of the Brooklyn team. Didi Thurau rode a Gios bike with IJsboerke . He then won, among other things, Liège – Bastogne – Liège . At the beginning of the 1980s the Vermeer-Thijs-Gios team established itself on Gios bikes with riders like Michel Pollentier and Fons de Wolf , and at the end of the 1980s the collaboration with the Jolly Componibilli Club-´88 team with riders like Roberto Visentini and Stefano Colage began renewed. In the early 1990s Stephen Roche rode Gios bikes, later - in the mid to late 1990s - Kelme riders (including Fernando Escartín , Roberto Heras , Laudelino Cubino , Juan Carlos Domínguez , Chepe González , Santiago Botero , Oscar Sevilla , José Luis ) drove Rubiera ) on Gios wheels, followed by Ángel Edo , Melchor Mauri , Claus Moller , Fabian Jeker of the Maia Milaneza team. From 2002 to 2004 Ivan Quaranta was successful on Gios bikes with the Formaggi-Pinzolo Fiave team, followed by the Relax team with riders like Oscar Sevilla , Francisco Mancebo , Santiago Pérez and Daniel Moreno .

Beginning in 2010 there was a restart of the Gios brand on the international market. This was significantly influenced by the strategic cooperation of the company owner Alfredo Gios with a Japanese company and the creation of modern sales structures and the like. a. in Germany.

The Gios-Torino bike shop in Volpiano near Turin, operated by Aldo and Marco Gios, also exists alongside the international brand.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Traditional racing bike philosophy: Gios Prodogiosa | Steel frame bikes . In: Steel Frame Bikes . July 25, 2014 ( stahlrahmen-bikes.de [accessed November 10, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Cyclingartblog: Gios = Roger De Vlaeminck
  3. ^ Bill Strickland : The Perfect American Jersey.
  4. ↑ Biketype.com: Gios
  5. ↑ Campafreak: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Gios Torino Isborke 1979. )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.campafreak.com
  6. ↑ Museociclismo: Team Veermeer-Thijs-Gios . Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  7. ↑ Museociclismo: Team Jolly Componibilli Club '88 . Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  8. ↑ Tour facts: Team Tonton Tapis-Corona ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 2, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tourfacts.dk
  9. ↑ Cycling pages : Team Kelme-Costa Blanca Accessed on December 2, 2011.
  10. ↑ Cycling pages : Team Maia Milaneza. Accessed December 2, 2011.
  11. ↑ Cycling websites : Team Formaggi-Pinzolo-Fiave . Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  12. ↑ Cycling pages : Team Relax GAM . Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  13. ↑ Radmarkt: GIOS racing bike brand with a new general agency in Germany. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  14. ↑ Gios-Torino bicycle shop

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