French Bicycle Manufacturers
French bicycle manufacturers have included:
- Alcyon, established in 1902, ceased manufacture in 1928.
- Alleluia
- Alex Singer
- Astra
- Automoto
- Louison Bobet, manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s.
- Caminade
- Chas Garin
- CNC
- Cycleurope
- Cycles Aluminium begins manufacturing aluminum-framed bicycles in 1890.
- Cycles Bertin
- Cyfac, a contemporary French bicycle manufacturer.
- Decathlon, French sporting goods chain, design and made by the biggest manufacture in UE, Polish Kross.
- Dilecta
- Cycles Follis, established in 1903; went out of business in the summer of 2007.
- La Fontan
- Raphaël Géminiani
- Gitane, established in 1930, continues to manufacture bicycles today.
- Gnôme Rhône
- Helyett
- René Herse, manufactured hand-built bicycles from the 1940s until the mid-1970s.
- Hurtu
- LeJeune
- Jeunet
- LaPerle
- Lapierre
- Look, established in 1951, began manufacturing bicycle frames in the 1980s.
- Meral
- Cycles Mercier
- Motobécane, established in 1923, filed for bankruptcy in 1981, ceased manufacturing bicycles after 1984.
- Michaux, manufactured velocipedes from 1861 until 1870.
- Peugeot, first manufactured bicycles in 1882; bicycles manufactured by and sold under the Cycleurope name since the late 1980s.
- Cycles Philippe, first manufactured bicycles in the 1970s
- Renault
- Roger Rivière
- Rochet
- Routens
- Sauvage-Lejeune
- Stella
- Sutter
- Terrot
- TIME
- Transfil
- Urago, ceased manufacture in the 1980s.
- VéloSoleX
- Vitus (bicycles)
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