Huret (bicycle component manufacturer)
Huret was a French manufacturer of bicycle rear derailleurs . Huret rear derailleurs are installed on many older Peugeot bikes. In the 1980s the company was bought by Fichtel & Sachs . Sachs has been part of SRAM since the mid-1990s .
history
The company was founded in 1920 by the racing cyclist André Huret (1891–1964), a nephew of the permanent world champion Constant Huret , in Puteaux near Paris . He himself had won the Paris – Turin race in 1911 and competed in the Tour de France in 1919 and 1920 . At Paris – Roubaix in 1919, he finished twelfth.
In his company, Huret initially successfully produced wing nuts , which were valued for their quality. In 1930 the company moved to larger premises in Nanterre . There he started with the production of derailleur gears . As a former racing driver, he managed to convince cycling colleagues like Maurice Archambaud and Georges Speicher to use his model. Nevertheless, the circuits initially failed to achieve economic success, and the sale of the wing nuts ensured the company's continued existence. Huret has continued to develop the circuits over the years and also designed different models for different purposes. Only after the Second World War and after his two sons Roger and Jacques joined the company did the demand for his switchgear increase. In 1949 Huret presented a new model with which the racing driver Louison Bobet won the Tour de France, a French championship and a world championship three times. At first it was called the Tour de France , but in 1951 it was a Type Louison Bobet .
André Huret died in 1964 at the age of 73. The sons had already taken over management of the company in previous years. They successfully expanded the product range to include bicycle tachometers , and two more production facilities were opened. In 1965 the company had 300 employees, and 110,000 derailleurs, 300,000 wing screws and 30,000 speedometers were manufactured every month. In the same year, the Allvit circuit model was delivered for the five millionth time. In 1978, Huret followed suit by marketing entire sets of bicycle components under its name.
In addition to Simplex , Huret was one of the two leading manufacturers of switchgear technology between the Second World War and the late 1980s . Until 1980, Huret was a purely family business run by André Huret's children and grandchildren. Several million circuits and a million speedometers were delivered annually, two thirds of which were intended for export. Nevertheless, the company did not work economically enough.
In the 1980s, Huret, the last French manufacturer of gears, was bought by Fichtel & Sachs, which is now part of SRAM. Huret continued to produce under various labels until the early 1990s. Hurét products were mainly sold under the names Sachs-Huret , Sachs or Edco .
Rear derailleurs (selection)
Allvit
The manufacturer's best-known model was the "Allvit" model introduced in the 1960s, the first inexpensive rear derailleur in parallelogram design. Hundreds of thousands of these derailleurs were built and sold by the 1970s. In contrast to today's rear derailleurs, the suspension mechanism of the Allvit was adjustable using screws. The alignment of the parallelogram made it possible to keep the guide roller of the rear derailleur very close to the sprocket set.
Jubilee
"Jubilee" was to be found in the company's upscale segment. When it was launched, it was the lightest rear derailleur on the market.
DuoPar / Eco DuoPar
The Huret DuoPar rear derailleur had two parallelograms , which is what led to its name. The additional parallelogram was used to move the guide roller up and down. This enabled DuoPar to operate the largest range of gears that a rear derailleur has ever operated. The original DuoPar was made from titanium and was therefore very expensive. A cheaper version called Eco DuoPar was later offered for a short time. The rear derailleur weighed 280 grams in its basic version.
Individual evidence
- ↑ André Huret. (No longer available online.) In: L'historique du Tour. Archived from the original on September 2, 2016 ; Retrieved June 7, 2016 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 1919 Paris - Roubaix bicycle race complete results. In: BikeRaceInfo. Retrieved June 7, 2016 .
- ^ Raymond Henry: Huret: A Notable French Derailleur . In: Nicholas Oddy / Rob van der Plas / (Ed.): Cycle History. Proceedings, 8th International Cycling History Conference . Glasgow 1997 . tape 8 . Van der Plas Publications, 1997, p. 87 ff .
- ^ Raymond Henry: Huret: A Notable French Derailleur . In: Nicholas Oddy / Rob van der Plas / (Ed.): Cycle History. Proceedings, 8th International Cycling History Conference. Glasgow 1997 . tape 8 . Van der Plas Publications, 1997, p. 89 f .
- ↑ VeloBase.com - View Brand. In: velobase.com. Retrieved June 7, 2016 .
- ↑ VeloBase.com - Component: Huret Duopar ECO (Version 1). In: velobase.com. August 1, 2013, accessed June 7, 2016 .
