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Editor’s note (August 17, 2026): The account below dates the founding of Haubtmann to 1903, following what M. Perard relayed at the time. The published record does not support that year. André Vant’s study of the Saint-Étienne cycle industry, in…
Stronglight is one of the enduring names of French cycling componentry, though its own history folds together two separate companies that only later became one. The firm presently known as Stronglight traces its roots to a chainring maker called Haubtmann,…
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