http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Forget the Velodrome en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:43:05 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9250#post-96461 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:51:50 +0000 chdot 96461@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://manufrance.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://manufrance.wordpress.com</a></p> <p><a href="http://manufrance.wordpress.com/1-manufacture-d’armes-et-cycles-de-saint-etienne" rel="nofollow">http://manufrance.wordpress.com/1-manufacture-d’armes-et-cycles-de-saint-etienne</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9250#post-96460 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:39:08 +0000 chdot 96460@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice bits of print -</p> <p><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fl-echo-du-cinq.over-blog.com%2Fm%2Farticle-70061524.html" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fl-echo-du-cinq.over-blog.com%2Fm%2Farticle-70061524.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9250#post-96456 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:35:51 +0000 chdot 96456@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Saint-Étienne also used to be a bike manufacturing town. </p> <p>Don't know if any are still made there.<a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8227/8367630963_7f8576a8a3_z.jpg"></p> <p><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8227/8367630963_918d15ef79_o.jpg"></a></p> <p>"<br /> Between the Loire and the Rhône, Saint-Étienne, until the second half of the 20th century, was one of France’s most important industrial centres. </p> <p>[You could compare it with Britain's Midlands industrial centre around Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton]</p> <p><a href="http://cyclemaster.wordpress.com/page-33-french-cyclemotors-manufrance-vap4" rel="nofollow">http://cyclemaster.wordpress.com/page-33-french-cyclemotors-manufrance-vap4</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9250#post-96453 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:21:03 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 96453@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Got a late Christmas present in the post today, Vélo, a book written by Paul Fournel, illustrated by Jo Burt (of Mint Sauce fame), published by the folk behind Rouleur (Rapha basically). It is, naturally, beautiful.</p> <p>Anyway, there was a paragraph about velodromes that I thought was somewhat interesting in relation to Edinburgh...</p> <p>"<em>Saint-Étienne was one of the rare cities to have one, but it was so dilapidated and so dangerous it was torn down. My adolescent years passed to a rhythm of the progressive forgetting of the promise to build another one. Now nobody even thinks about it.</em>"</p> <p>Did I mention the book is beautiful? </p>