French Bicycle Industry - French Bicycle Manufacturers

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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