Brooklyn 50 Years On One of our favorite events in recent years has been the GIOS Raduno. Lovers of the blue bicycles come from all over to join together for a ride and lunch afterwards. Marco Gios and his friends do a lot of wo…
GIOS RADUNO 2022 One of our favorite events - part of why May is a special month in Italy for us. Not only La Corsa Rosa but the annual GIOS Raduno , this year the 5th time the GIOS family has gathered in Volpiano . In 2016 Z…
Milano-Torino 2021 We boarded a plane for the first time in awhile to fly to Milan. Why? To visit our friends at Piedmont Cycling Resort while picking up a few things from our storage there and to see a few of the end-of-season …
Only in Italy - Part 2 Regular readers will remember Part 1, the story of Zio Lorenzo 's broken bike. Here's the rest of the story: Marco and Aldo Gios saved the day almost one year ago but Zio 's gorgeous, made-to-…
Piedmont Cycling Resort - visit by GIOS Piedmont Cycling Resort may technically be closed but Hotel Ariotto is open-for-business! We came up for a brief visit and to collect some things from storage to bring back to Sicily with …