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The three ‘Concours du TCF’ in 1901 (testing brakes), 1902 (testing bicyclettes de tourisme - touring bicycles) and 1905 (testing bicyclettes de voyage - serious touring bicycles) were the key road tests of the time. And Terrot had cleaned up at each of them.
(Source gallica.bnf.fr/ Bibliothèque nationale de France)