Stephen Roche, Sean Kelly, Laurence Roche)brother

[ChromeChainstay]

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Kelly always identifiable by his toe clips when everyone else was clueless

 

[Coalfield]

The bike brands are written on the frame tubes. that's a no brainer.

 

[ChromeChainstay]

gios/concorde/gios

 

[pigman]

gios/concorde/gios

Yes
Wonder why the Gios's have a vitus decal. Surely they have nothing to do with vitus

 

[vtwinvince]

Just picked up a copy of Kelly's book.

 

[Rapparee87]

The great days of the Nissan Classic.

 

[tarehy]

Yes
Wonder why the Gios's have a vitus decal. Surely they have nothing to do with vitus

There were always some funny sponsorship /advertising protocols /deals in the Nissan (and in UK races?)Here their regular Tonton Tapis gear is branded Ever Ready .

 

[tarehy]

The Roches are on their Tonton-Tapis Gios Torino team bikes.There was a year or two in Ireland when there was a 'Bray Cycling Week' which I think was set up with the ambition of rivaling the Isle of Man equivalent.I remember competing in the 200k pro am 'classic' road race event during it .My abiding memory is how cresting the top of small hills in towns the speed INSTANTANEOUSLY increased without even a few seconds lag.Much of the rest of it was reasonably civilised but I was dropped in the final miles on a long drag.Quite a few GB domestic scene pros were also in attendance

 

[Rapparee87]

There were always some funny sponsorship /advertising protocols /deals in the Nissan (and in UK races?)Here their regular Tonton Tapis gear is branded Ever Ready .

Yes, but the bikes wouldn't have been part of that. Tonton Tapis didn't stick about too long, probably needed a few bob quickly. I don't recall them on Vitus at all, and being Irish we kept a close eye on our heroes equipment.

This was the 91 Nissan I think. That year Roche missed the TTT start in the Tour de France. He wasn't let start and his Tour was over. The team were fuming.