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Timelines
Thirty-three chronological marque histories, built event by dated event from the archive’s own articles. The 1930s is the busiest decade on record here — 111 dated events — which says as much about French constructeur culture as it does about the archive.
Timelines
33
one per marque
Dated events
766
every one sourced in an article
Span
1810–2025
Peugeot to Brooks England
Busiest decade
1930s
111 events across 27 marques
Featured timeline · A new deep-dive each week
Jo Routens History: A Timeline of Key Competitive and Corporate Events
Joseph “Jo” Routens ranked among the greatest makers of randonneur, cyclotouring and cyclosportif bicycles in cycling history, distinct from contemporaries René Herse…
Open the Jo Routens Timeline- 1913Founder's Birth. Joseph "Jo" Routens was born in Grenoble, France, a city with roots as an early source…
- 1945Corporate Partnership. Routens met Roger Hugonnier, a former motorcycle racer for the Grenoble marque Libéria, just after the…
- 1951Grand Tour Victory. Riding with René Fourmy, Routens won PBP again, racing against a competing Rene Herse tandem and…
- 2014Corporate Leadership. Jean-Paul Routens, son of Jo, retired after continuing to produce world-class tandems under the Routens 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
