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Bicycle Makers · France
Everything Ebykr holds on Gitane: two articles, a Timeline of 14 dated events from 1925 to 2000 and four documents in the archive.
The history of Gitane on Ebykr.
"Gitane" is an unutterably lovely word if you speak French, both in sound and meaning. It is pronounced "zhee-TAHNN" and represents the more romantic of the French words for "gypsy." There could not be a more evocative or…
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Gitane took its name from founder Marcel Bruneliere's own nickname, given to him by his wife for his constant continent-spanning dealmaking, and applied it to bicycles beginning in 1930. This timeline traces the marque's Tour de…
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