Component Makers Spécialités TA

Component Makers, Spécialités TA

The Legacy of Spécialités TA: From “Traction Avant” to Drivetrain Perfection

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Origins: From Cabinetry to Duralumin Spécialités TA is one of the most remarkable paradoxes in cycling history: an absurdly small company that has held global fame and respect since 1947. It has never employed more than a handful of managers…

Image Gallery, Spécialités TA

Spécialités TA Advertisement Gallery

Illustrated advertisement with cartoon mascot Fifi holding aloft a TA crankset with integrated bottle cage mount, TA Champion du Monde du Leger

Step back into the workshop of Spécialités TA, the small Clamart firm whose duralumin chainrings and cranksets carried some of the biggest names in cycling for over seventy years. This gallery gathers the company’s period advertisements, catalog pages and technical…

Eric Anschutz
July 14, 2026

Component Makers, Spécialités TA

Spécialités TA History: A Timeline of Key Corporate and Technical Events

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From a front-wheel-drive experiment that never reached production to a crankset still made six decades after its debut, the history of Spécialités TA is the story of a tiny French workshop that chose to do a few things better than…