DISRAELI GEARS

Sachs-Huret

Sachs-Huret Eco S derailleur (2830-00 H) main image Sachs-Huret Commander derailleur (12900) main image Sachs-Huret New Success derailleur main image

Founded in 1895 in Schweinfurt, Fichtel & Sachs (F&S) was one of the great European bicycle component companies. In 1980 F&S bought a controlling interest in Huret, and gradually changed the ‘Huret’ brand into ‘Sachs-Huret’. F&S also bought a number of other venerable but struggling French component companies in this period, including Sedis (chains) and Maillard (hubs, freewheels and possibly chainsets).

Then in 1987 Mannesmann, a giant German engineering conglomerate, bought the F&S group and restructured it. Mannesmann was very unimpressed by the quality of marketing in the European bicycle industry, and, for clarity, decided to change the brand back to plain ‘Sachs’, with the Huret name (and the F&S group’s other French brand names) disappearing from about 1991. Finally in 1997, Mannesmann sold the Sachs Bicycle Components unit of the old F&S to SRAM. SRAM dropped the ‘Sachs’ brand from 1999, but continued with some of Sach’s designs under the ‘SRAM’ brand name.

In terms of derailleurs, Sachs-Huret models consisted of three groups

  • Huret’s existing models cleaned up, slightly modernised and subjected to a welcome dose of German logic. In the last years of Huret their offer seemed to me to have been starved of technical development, styling and even much thought and F&S were able to bring more resources to the table.
  • Two immediate developments, the indexed Commander (to do battle with Shimano’s Positron system) and the drop parallelogram Rival (to do battle with Shimano’s 600 series). Both designs were slightly crude derivatives of Shimano designs, with two sprung pivots.
  • Once Sachs had got into its stride Sachs-Huret started to produce better constructed, better finished designs, although they remained essentially copies of Shimano designs.

There is some history of Sachs-Huret on the SRAM website.


see also US Trademark # 1,243,517 - Sachs 1979

see also US Trademark # 1,243,517 - Sachs 1979

US Trademark 1,243,517 - Sachs thumbnail


see also US Trademark # 1,219,895 - Sachs 1980

see also US Trademark # 1,219,895 - Sachs 1980

US Trademark 1,219,895 - Sachs thumbnail


see also US Trademark # 1,219,897 - Sachs 1980

see also US Trademark # 1,219,897 - Sachs 1980

US Trademark 1,219,897 - Sachs thumbnail


see also Huret - catalogue 07/1981

see also Huret - catalogue 07/1981

  • Publisher: Huret
  • Date: July 1981
  • Derailleur brands: Huret, Sachs-Huret
  • Derailleurs: too many to list - see individual pages
Huret - catalogue 1981 scan 1 thumbnail


see also Huret - new 82 1981

see also Huret - new 82 1981

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Sachs-Huret Commander - instructions 1981?

Sachs-Huret Commander - instructions 1981?

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see also Huret Nouveau - New - 09/1982

see also Huret Nouveau - New - 09/1982

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see also US Trademark # 1,446,060 - Sachs-Huret 1982

see also US Trademark # 1,446,060 - Sachs-Huret 1982

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Huret Nouveau - New - 06/1983

Huret Nouveau - New - 06/1983

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Sachs-Huret - sticker 1983?

Sachs-Huret - sticker 1983?

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Huret Derailleurs - Speedometers - 06/1984

Huret Derailleurs - Speedometers - 06/1984

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see also Sprint International 08/1984 - Sachs-Huret ad

see also Sprint International 08/1984 - Sachs-Huret ad

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see also French Registered Design # 845832-002 - Huret 1984

see also French Registered Design # 845832-002 - Huret 1984

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see also La Bicicletta Guida '88 - Galli ad 1988

see also La Bicicletta Guida '88 - Galli ad 1988

La Bicicletta Guida 1988 February - Galli advert thumbnail


see also Ricci Catalogue '89 1989

see also Ricci Catalogue '89 1989

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see also La Bicicletta 1990 Dec - Sachs ad

see also La Bicicletta 1990 Dec - Sachs ad

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see also Bicisport 1992 Mar - Sachs ad

see also Bicisport 1992 Mar - Sachs ad

BiciSport 1992-03 Sachs advert thumbnail


see also Bicisport 1992 Mar - Vitus 992 Dural

see also Bicisport 1992 Mar - Vitus 992 Dural

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see also US Trademark # 2,244,162 - Sachs 1996

see also US Trademark # 2,244,162 - Sachs 1996

US Trademark 2,244,162 - Sachs thumbnail


see also US Trademark # 2,244,164 - Sachs 1996

see also US Trademark # 2,244,164 - Sachs 1996

US Trademark 2,244,164 - Sachs thumbnail


see also US Trademark # 2,258,427 - Sachs 1996

see also US Trademark # 2,258,427 - Sachs 1996

US Trademark 2,258,427 - Sachs thumbnail


see also US Trademark # 2,278,673 - Sachs 1996

see also US Trademark # 2,278,673 - Sachs 1996

US Trademark 2,278,673 - Sachs thumbnail


see also US Trademark # 2,248,618 - Sachs 1996

see also US Trademark # 2,248,618 - Sachs 1996

US Trademark 2,248,618 - Sachs thumbnail


see also US Trademark # 2,258,499 - Sachs 1996

see also US Trademark # 2,258,499 - Sachs 1996

US Trademark 2,258,499 - Sachs thumbnail


see also SRAM - Spare Parts List 1999 1998

see also SRAM - Spare Parts List 1999 1998

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