Tag Terrot

Bicycle Makers, Terrot

Terrot History: A Timeline of Key Corporate and Technical Events

From its 1887 beginnings as a modest textile workshop built by Charles Terrot in rural Dijon, France, the Terrot enterprise grew into a resoundingly popular manufacturer of bicycles and motorcycles over the next three quarters of a century. This timeline traces its groundbreaking products, aggressive marketing and podium record from 1887 to 1970.

Eric Anschutz
July 4, 2026

Bicycle Makers, Terrot

Terrot: Forging the Way

From its 1887 beginnings as a modest textile workshop built by Charles Terrot in rural Dijon, France, the Terrot enterprise grew to become a resoundingly popular manufacturer of bicycles and motorcycles over the next three-quarters century. Terrot successfully combined ground…

Eric Anschutz
February 8, 2018
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Image Gallery, Terrot

Terrot Poster Gallery

Terrot advertised on the wall for sixty years, and the sheets that survive run from the earliest days of the French cycling poster to the last of the marque’s bicycles. Twenty-one of them are gathered here, from the 1890s through…

Eric Anschutz
March 12, 2016
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