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Caminade made the Caminargent, an aluminum bicycle of the 1930s, and the handlebars, stems and gear hubs that went with it. This gallery gathers the advertisements, press clippings and catalogs that document the firm, among them the 1936 French catalog…
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.
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 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…
From a front-wheel-drive experiment that never reached production to a crankset still made six decades after its debut, the history of Spécialités TA is the story of a tiny French workshop that chose to do a few things better than…
A reference guide to the Idéale saddle and clip lineup, covering model number, category, top material, rail material, size, weight and technical notes for dozens of historic models. Use this table to identify, compare and date saddles from the Idéale catalog.
Duralumin is not a bicycle marque in the usual sense. It is the trade name of an age-hardened aluminum alloy, developed in Germany and adopted across a cluster of French manufacturers who saw in it the same promise materials engineers…
Nearly a century before swoopy modern wonderbikes claimed aluminum frames and quick-disassembly travel bikes as innovations, Pierre Caminade had already built them. Working from a small Parisian atelier, Caminade pursued an obsessive, self-driven program of aluminum-magnesium frame construction, componentry and…
This feature article provides an unprecedented visual window into the industrial soul of the Idéale brand, presenting rare archival photographs of the F. Tron & Cie and Tron & Berthet facilities and the generations of artisans who defined them. The images trace the company's journey from its hydraulic roots at a former wool mill to the height of its mid-century power.
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