Originally Posted by
JackJohn
I recently talked about this with a friend, he told me that indeed there are two Gios from two brothers who decided to split business at some point: one Gios (the giostorino.it) based in Volpiano near Turin, where the great Aldo still works, which deals with the local market and where you can still have a top level taylor made Gios frame according to Aldo (and his son) extensive knowledge, the other Gios dealing with international customers.
Yeah - the other brother moved towards making frames in Asia and selling them in teh Far East and Australia. You cannot get a Gios in the states currently.
Interesting on the tubing if that Gios. It looks to have some aero shaping similar to a Yamaguchi that used to be built in Rifle, CO.