Bicycle Makers Cycle de France

Cycles de France, the marque of Etablissements Drevon of Saint-Etienne. A medium-size Loire works listed in the 1951 Bottin du cycle at about 6,000 bicycles a year, which also built concours and exhibition machines that Daniel Rebour drew for Le Cycle.

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Duralumin undercarriage of the Idéale saddle on the 1948 Cycle de France randonneuse, stamped DURALUMIN MÉTAL DE LA CÉGÉDUR inside a shield and flanked by the numeral 9Cycle de FranceLe Simplex front changer, the Rosa inner chainring and the Stronglight sunburst cartouche on the crank arm of the 1948 Cycle de France randonneuseCycle de FranceLE MARTELÉ Bté SGDG Lefol stamp on the hammered alloy fender of the 1948 Cycle de France randonneuse, above a tire sidewall reading 650 x 35 BCycle de FranceIdéale leather saddle and seat-stay manette of the 1948 Cycle de France randonneuse seen from behind, above the hammered Lefol rear fenderCycle de FranceSeat cluster of the 1948 Cycle de France randonneuse, with a drum-bodied Cyclo manette clamped to the seat stay and the rear cantilever brake straddle wire belowCycle de FranceCyclo jockey pulley stamped FABRICATION CYCLO Bté S.G.D.G. on the 1948 Cycle de France randonneuse, below the four-speed freewheel and the wing-nut axleCycle de FranceRear transmission of the 1948 Cycle de France randonneuse: a four-speed Cyclo derailleur driven by a threaded rod, the seat-stay dynamo, wing-nut axle nuts and a long shaped rear dropoutCycle de FranceDrive side of the 1948 Cycle de France randonneuse from the bottom bracket forward, showing the cotterless Stronglight crankset, the Rosa inner chainring and the Le Simplex front changerCycle de FranceLugged alloy front rack of the 1948 Cycle de France randonneuse with its cork bearing pad, seen under the leather-wrapped Pivo handlebarCycle de FranceCycles de France down tube script in red and blue on the pale metallic blue frame of the 1948 randonneuse, alongside the alloy frame pumpCycle de FranceAlloy headlamp with an amber lens and a hinged top switch, mounted on the front rack of the 1948 Cycle de France randonneuseCycle de FranceCockpit of the 1948 Cycle de France randonneuse, showing the leather-wrapped Pivo randonneur handlebar, alloy brake levers, the Bell stem and the alloy headlamp carried on the front rackCycle de France

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