Re: [CR]What else did they make besides bicycles?

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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:39:22 -0500
To: r cielec <teaat4p@yahoo.com>, Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]What else did they make besides bicycles?


At 8:50 PM -0800 12/19/05, r cielec wrote:
>Ahoy !
>
>What has prodded this question is the "Peugot Freres" manual coffee
>grinder

I have a Peugeot pepper mill that my wife bought in France. I understand they also make automobiles...
>I have and an over-riding curiousity as how the bicycle
>industry fits in the milleau of engineering and manufacturing. Example:
>aircraft alloys being used in the bicycle industry.

Actually, it's the other way 'round...I understand the immortal Spitfire's airframe was made of Reynolds 531...
>Building bicycles does not appear to be an easy path, if any path, to
>wealth. What else did the "in time line" builders do to earn a living
>so they could pratice their craft? If the bike business was profitable,
>the Wright Brothers wouldn't have closed shop in favour of another
>venture.

Columbia still exists, but no longer makes bicycles...these days they make school desks!

Campagnolo has made automobile wheels, including for Ferrari. Then there is the corkscrew...

I've heard that Saturn automobiles have Shimano transmissions, not sure if that's true though.

And don't forget Gitane cigarettes, slightly milder than Gauloises...

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