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Component Makers · France
Everything Ebykr holds on Mafac: three articles, a Timeline of 23 dated events from 1894 to 1983 and 10 documents in the archive.
The history of Mafac on Ebykr.
In the historical archive of classic lightweight and vintage bicycles, some components get relegated to lowly footnote status, while others stand tall as towering monuments to engineering achievement. Among the latter, the name…
Grouped by format, the most read first.
A practical guide to identifying and dating Mafac brakes — why there is no date code to rely on, how the Racer's arm markings changed, which models arrived when and how to read Mafac's own three-digit lever code.
MAFAC's story is that of a specialist brake innovator facing the rise of integrated groupsets. For 20 prosperous years, MAFAC filled a crucial gap by creating brakes—like the pioneering Criterium cantilever and revolutionary…
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