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Component Makers · France
Everything Ebykr holds on Spécialités TA: three articles, a Timeline of 11 dated events from 1908 to 2017 and 16 documents in the archive.
The history of Spécialités TA on Ebykr.

An absurdly small French workshop that made the alloy chainring its calling and built the immortal Pro 5 Vis crankset. Meet Spécialités TA.
Grouped by format, the most read first.

From a 1947 Clamart workshop to Sissonne today, the key dates, models and milestones of Spécialités TA, the tiny French chainring legend.


Original Spécialités TA advertisements, catalog pages and technical illustrations spanning 1948 to 1983, from the Clamart chainring and crankset maker.
Where Spécialités TA is named outside its own pages: seven articles, six build sheets and 68 archive documents from 26 other makers and five publications.
The articles that name Spécialités TA most often first.
…a fitter-assembler, and learned to work duralumin. Navet went on to found Spécialités TA, and in later years TA machined crank and chainring blanks for Herse himself. Herse's parts were already proving…
…its headset is seen on most Italian bicycles and names its tools beside those of Var and T.A. By 1966, his roll showcasing the principal component makers begins with Campagnolo. In the 1970s, Campagnolo became…
…its headset is seen on most Italian bicycles and names its tools beside those of Var and T.A. By 1966 his roll of the principal component makers begins with Campagnolo. Mid-1960s · Corporate Crisis · The…
…guides for rapid wheel mounts/dismounts. Parts included: 700 rims and 32C tires, a TA 48T/44T/32T or 50T/44T/36T x 6 drivetrain, and either fender or rack-mounted lights (or both) and dynamo. Sportif or…
…a better way to make our beloved two-wheeled machines go. (Note the naming story behind Spécialités TA, for example.) While many innovators try building a better mousetrap, so to speak, few are true originals and even…
…The same pages tell the stories of the other suppliers the constructeurs relied on: Spécialités TA, whose founder Georges Navet learned to work duralumin in Herse's wartime workshop, and the Idéale saddles, Maxi-Car…
…saddle, MAFAC brakes, a Cyclo derailleur, a light-alloy Stronglight chainset carrying a T.A. triple, JOS lighting and MAXI-CAR hubs. 1961 · Product Launch · The Type 2b was introduced concurrently and sold for…
Bicycles in the Tech Specs database that name Spécialités TA.
Filed under other makers and publications whose words name Spécialités TA; the biggest share first.
10 catalogs
nine catalogs

six catalogs
four documents: two catalogs and two advertisements
three advertisements

three catalogs
two catalogs
two catalogs

one advertisement
one catalog
one catalog
one catalog

one catalog
one catalog
one catalog
one catalog
one catalog
one catalog

one catalog
one catalog

one advertisement
one advertisement
one catalog

one advertisement

one catalog
one catalog
five advertisements
three advertisements
one advertisement
one catalog
one catalog
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