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For almost 30 years Daniel Rebour drew the French bicycle for Le Cycle: numbered pen plates that showed readers how the best constructeurs built their machines. The man, his tandem, his pen and the gift that made his drawings worth keeping.
Campagnolo says its founder invented the quick release after a snowbound race in 1927 and patented it in 1930. The record tells a richer story: a first patent filed in May 1933, the cam quick release in April 1943, a parallelogram derailleur he perfected rather than invented, magnesium wheels for Lamborghini, a signed account of his life that never mentions the snow and a 1981 conviction that English-language histories leave out.
A dated timeline of Campagnolo from Tullio Campagnolo's birth in Vicenza in 1901 to the minority investment of 2026: his first patent of May 1933, the cam quick release of 1943, the Cambio Corsa and the Paris-Roubaix, the Gran Sport, Record and Super Record, magnesium wheels for Lamborghini, C-Record, Syncro and Ergopower, with the Croce d'Aune story marked as the legend it is.
A practical guide to dating an Idéale saddle — why there is no date code, what the initials on the badge tell you, which models arrived when, how the alloy stamps and the rodée main mark narrow the window and how to date the paper.
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.
Maxi-Car did one thing and did it better than anyone else: make great bike hubs. The marque is a braid of three separate French houses that include a Lyon artisan who patented the application of demountable annular bearings to the…
A 650B randonneuse built to exhibition standard in 1948 by Cycles de France of Saint-Etienne, and the two Daniel Rebour plates that put the marque on the page.
Idéale saddles were made at Pont-Saint-Pierre in the Eure for most of the 20th century, first by the Tron family, as F. Tron and later Tron et Enfants, then from 1928 by Tron et Berthet, and for much of that…
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…
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 70 years. This gallery gathers the company’s period advertisements, catalog pages and technical…
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