Carbon, titanium and aluminum is all very good, however the fashionable supplies can’t come near the category and magnificence of Marco’s 1973 Gios Torino, which was really purchased in Torino. The acquisition was impressed by Roger De Vlaeminck, though Marco’s Gios will not be on the Flemish cobbles, however below the California solar.
Identify: Marco Louie
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Bike: 1973 Gios Report
Groupset: First Technology Campagnolo Tremendous Report
Wheels: 36 gap Campagnolo Report hubs, 14/15 DT Spokes laced 3 cross, Mavic Or 10 Rims, 14-23 Regina Oro 5 pace freewheel, Vittoria Rally tubulars
Pedals: Campagnolo Tremendous Leggeri observe pedals, Ducson toe clips, Binda toe straps
Saddle: Cinelli Unicanitor
Different: Cinelli 1R stem, Cinelli 64 Giro d’Italia Bars
Weight: 20 lbs
When did you purchase it?
2018 from Artwork Bikes in Torino, Italy.
Roger De Vlaeminck; not in Roubaix, however the Tour of Flanders 1976
What made you select this bike?
I fell in love with this bike after seeing “A Sunday In Hell” as a child within the late 70s. The bike’s historical past with the Brooklyn group and Roger De Vlaeminck in Paris-Roubaix and different Classics was very interesting to me.
Have you ever carried out any modifications/additions to it?
I bought the body by itself, so all of the parts and wheels is likely to be thought-about a modification. That being stated, the unique manufacturing facility spec seemingly known as for a Nuovo Report moderately than Tremendous Report. The brake levers, crank arms, stem, handlebars, and seat submit have been badly worn and scratched after I acquired them. I eliminated their anodized end and polished them for this construct.
What number of miles/kilometers do you do a 12 months?
Roughly 6000 miles a 12 months distributed between 6 bikes – 5 classic metal and 1 fashionable carbon.
What do you like about this bike?
The experience traits of a metal body are one thing of a biking cliche by now. Suffice it to say that this bike has a “Goldilocks” high quality to the way in which it handles. It’s nimble and responsive climbing and cornering, but secure and predictable on descents. To enhance the standard of its dealing with, this bike is the epitome of a 70s biking aesthetic: basic, uncluttered and understated. And who can not love that Gios blue?
Favourite using space?
My very own yard, right here within the San Francisco Bay Space, significantly the East Bay hills.
Favourite using expertise in your bike?
The San Francisco Bay Space was among the many first areas of the nation to enter lockdown from COVID 19. Thankfully, we have been capable of proceed outside biking. Having the ability to hold using all through these months positively helped me keep my bodily and psychological equilibrium throughout that anxious interval.
Future upgrades?
A 13-26 freewheel would positively assistance on the climbs. A pair of silk racing tubulars could be good if simply to listen to the hum of the tires on the highway. Nonetheless, I not experience quick sufficient to justify their addition!
Final phrases?
I take pleasure in restoring classic bikes as a lot as using them. It’s very satisfying to present a second life to frames which have sat uncared for in garages and basements and getting them again to their pure habitat on the highway.
I’m an unabashed biking Luddite. For me, biking is a method to flee the entire digital and technological stimuli of on a regular basis life. These bikes from the 70s and early 80s symbolize biking in its essence, free from issues about wattage output, aerodynamics and Strava KOMs.
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