DISRAELI DOCUMENTS
M. Maitre takes up the challenge on reporting on the sixth Critérium de la Bicyclette Polymultipliée, held on the 27th of April 1924. 52 solo machines and six tandems seemed to have completed the test. These 58 machines featured the following transmissions:
A lot has changed since the previous year’s event. L’ As has disappeared and its cousin, Le Cyclo, has made its first appearance. All the RPF bikes in the event were now fitted with Le Cyclo’s.
The Super As is no longer the lightweight derailleur of choice - it has been superceded by Audouard’s Le Crack. Audouard’s traditional 8 speed derailleur system, a feature of these events for over a decade, does not appear.
I have never been clear about the relationship between the Boizot and Tracol brands. Sometimes Boizot derailleurs seem to be fitted to Tracol bikes, and sometimes vice versa. In this article M. Tracol is refered to as the originator of Le Montagnard derailleur - but I shall continue to refer to it as a Boizot model.
I have no information about L’Ecureuil or Intégral derailleur designs.
(Source gallica.bnf.fr/ Bibliothèque nationale de France)