Gima (motorcycles)

GIMA (Groupement Industriel Métallurgique Automobile) is a French motorcycle manufacturer that built lightweight bikes from 1947 until 1956. It resumed production in 2005 with the production of modern retro reincarnation of the original 1950s bikes, but compliant with modern standards.[1]

Gima
Founded1947, resumed 2005
Defunct1956
HeadquartersPeschadoires, France
ProductsMotorcycles
WebsiteOfficial page
Example of an old-style new GIMA

Notes

  1. Tragatsch, Erwin (1977), "GIMA", The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Motorcycles (2nd ed.), Chartwell Books, Inc., p. 147, ISBN 0-89009-868-9, France 1947-1956 The machines were beautiful lightweights with Ydral, AMC and other 123cc to 248cc engines.
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