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Timelines
Timelines
Twenty-nine chronological marque histories, built event by dated event from the archive’s own articles. The 1930s is the busiest decade on record here — 88 dated events — which says as much about French constructeur culture as it does about the archive.
Timelines
29
one per marque
Dated events
605
every one sourced in an article
Span
1810–2023
Peugeot’s mill to Mavic’s present
Busiest decade
1930s
88 events across 24 marques
Featured timeline · A new deep-dive each week
Bridgestone History: A Timeline of Key Corporate and Bicycle Events
Bridgestone is best known worldwide as a tire giant, yet its bicycle story runs from tabi sandals in the 1920s to a…
Open the Bridgestone Timeline- 1925Founding. Shōjirō Ishibashi, whose name translates as "stone bridge," begins making tabi, traditional Japanese sandals.
- 1982Product Launch. Bridgestone's dealer catalogue for the year introduces road models including the Altair, Antares L.D.T. touring bicycle…
- 1992Marketing. In a California Bicyclist interview, Petersen states his philosophy for the brand: "The best use of…
- 2018Corporate. The Japan-based racing squad adopts an all-Japanese roster and its current team name.
Two centuries of the lightweight bicycle
Events per decade — darker is busier, and every cell opens its marque’s timeline. The twelve earliest-founded marques are shown first; the leftmost column gathers the two events from before 1850.
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Alphabetical, each with its span, event count and decade-by-decade rhythm
