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Timelines
Timelines
Thirty chronological marque histories, built event by dated event from the archive’s own articles. The 1930s is the busiest decade on record here — 89 dated events — which says as much about French constructeur culture as it does about the archive.
Timelines
30
one per marque
Dated events
616
every one sourced in an article
Span
1810–2023
Peugeot’s mill to Mavic’s present
Busiest decade
1930s
89 events across 25 marques
Featured timeline · A new deep-dive each week
Colnago History: A Timeline of Key Corporate and Technical Events
A broken leg ended Ernesto Colnago's brief competitive cycling career in 1951, but it did not end his passion for the sport.…
Open the Colnago Timeline- 1945Career Beginning. Ernesto Colnago began working at the prestigious Gloria bicycle factory in post-war Milan, the starting point…
- 1966Technical Milestone. Colnago became known for unbreakable forks built with a new cold-bending method, fixing the blades in…
- 1986Strategic Pivot. Colnago began a collaboration with Ferrari S.p.A. to combine Ferrari Formula One technology with Colnago's bicycle-building…
- 2018Product Innovation. Colnago introduced the C64, which together with the C60 took the place of the classic C40…
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
