Gima (motorcycles)

Gima
Founded	1947, resumed 2005
Defunct	1956
Headquarters	Peschadoires, France
Products	Motorcycles
Website	Official page

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]

Example of an old-style new GIMA

Notes

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.

External links

Official page

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[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.