Tag: bicyclettes

  • 1909 Peugeot Bicyclette Course with sloping top tube

    Click here to view at The Online Bicycle Museum For price and purchase, please click here… Peugeot’s racing team was one of the most successful of all time. In the early 1900s, it was led by Hippolyte Aucouturier (above), winner of the 1903 Paris–Roubaix and Bordeaux–Paris races. Peugot won the Tour de France six times up […]

  • 1903 Bicyclette Manufrance Hirondelle

    Click here to view at The Online Bicycle Museum The Manufrance company was started in 1885, and the first catalogue was published in 1889. This was France’s first mail order company with an annual catalogue, which was known as la Manu. It offered a wide range of products, the most famous being guns, bicycles and sewing […]

  • 1900 Bicyclette Routiere Georges Richard

    Click here to view at The Online Bicycle Museum During the 1890s Georges Richard and his elder brother, Félix-Maxime worked in a bicycle repair and manufacturing business. The business flourished and the brothers created Société des Cycles Georges Richard. The brothers’ belief in the quality of their bicycles enabled them to include a life-time guarantee against […]

  • 1899 Bicyclette Phebus

    Click here to view at The Online Bicycle Museum …Well worthy are ‘Gladiators’ to take their place by the side of Humber and Clement cycles. Wonderful, indeed, has been the rise of the Societe Francaise des Cycles Galdiator. In 1891 this now famous mark was the property of MM J. Aucoc and Darracq, the last […]

  • 1899 Bicyclette Liberator

    Click here to view at The Online Bicycle Museum Apparently, ‘Cycles Liberator’ opened their Pantin factory in 1898, and were purchased by La Francaise Diamant in 1909. 1899 Bicyclette Liberator 24″ Frame 28″ Wheels  This Liberator is another late 19th century French machine that is better know in the 21st century because of its Belle Epoche […]