1974 Gios Torino super record we sold here at Bike Boom. If your'e not familiar, Bike Boom is a used bike shop in Davis square, on the border of Cambridge and Somerville , near Boston MA. where we specialize in restoring and refurbishing used and vintage bikes and offer professional bicycle repair services
As you might remember we sold this gios torino super record wit full campagnolo nuovo record in "as is" condition. A few weeks later, the new owner, Adam has dropped by with the Gios torino super record after a good cleaning and a few updates.
A new brooks saddle, tape, cables a new freewheel and reproduction campagnolo hoods have been added and according to Adam the ride is very enjoyable. Even though most of our customers are looking for solid, ready to ride commuters we are going to add more vintage high end road bikes to our collection and make an effort to stock them more regularly as the Cambridge, Somerville and Boston crowd , has an ongoing interest in these amazing riding machines.
1974 Gios Torino super record bike we sold here at Bike Boom. If your'e not familiar, Bike Boom is a used bike shop in Davis square, on the border of Cambridge and Somerville , near Boston MA. where we specialize in restoring and refurbishing used and vintage bikes and offer professional bicycle repair services.
Most of the bikes sold at the Bike Boom shop are fully refurbished with new parts and tuned up but on occasion, we have customers who are interested in restoring the bike themselves, choose their own color combinations, components and style. We have many bikes that are waiting for their turn to be restored and we invite you to call and ask about any bikes as your future projects. we can also customize any bike according to your specs. This Gios torino super record is an example for one of these projects.
This is one of our finest finds up to date, apart from the hubs, It is fully equipped with Campagnolo Nuovo Record, the wheels which originally were nuovo record laced to nisi or mavic sew ups have been replaced with Suzue hubs and wolber super champion gentleman rims. We suspect it has been updated in the mid-late 80 to the current continental clinchers. This wheelset was a good value item back in the day. Cinnelly stem and handlebar and cinelli unicanitor suede saddle and a super nice gios torino pantographed, engraved campy nuovo record seat post. Another interestong feature is the gios torino lettering on the bottom bracket Admittedly, this is no garage princess, it had been serving it's purpose and the frame and components show it but it was super straight and had no major rust issues apart from some scrapes in the paint. We chose not to refurbish this Gios and let the happy owner make it his own. more gios torino pictures here and an elaborate history source here. The Owner promissed to drop by with the bike once he is done restoring it and we will revisit this exquisite bike when he does.
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. If your'e not familiar, Bike Boom is a used bike shop in Davis square, on the border of Cambridge and Somerville , near Boston MA where we specialize in restoring and refurbishing used and vintage bikes and offer professional bike repair services.
Today we chose to show a beautiful bike that belongs to a fellow biker who came by the shop to inquire about a "snow bike". In Boston, it's quite common for bikers to have a nice bike for the sunny months and a winter beater for the snowy, freezing salty, grimy months. When you own a bike of this caliber you can appreciate why it's smart to buy another one to ride only 3 or 4 months a year.
This red beauty is a waterford made schwinn paramount made with columbus SLX tubing and fully equipped with vintage Dura ace, according to the owner, he pieced it together from parts he found on the web, mainly Ebay. Paramount was schwinn's high quality division for many years until in 1992 schwinn lost it's assets including the paramount name. More about schwinn paramounts from the waterford website , form sheldon brown here and classic rendevouz here. I forgot to ask the year and model but I think it's a late 80's, early nineties model.
