CLB (bicycle components)
| CLB | |
|---|---|
| legal form | SA |
| founding | around 1950 |
| resolution | around 1985 |
| Seat | St. Etienne , France |
| Branch | Bicycle component manufacturer |
Angenieux CLB SA was a French manufacturer of bicycle components based in St. Etienne . After the Second World War , the company was, alongside Mafac, one of the two leading brake manufacturers in France.
CLB stood for the initials of the company's founder Charles Lozier Bourgoin. The company used the letter combination for advertising slogans such as Ce Le Bre and Cha Leger Bloque . In the 1970s the company failed to catch up with the latest technical developments on the bicycle market and disappeared from the scene in the 1980s.
As early as the 1960s and 1970s, British manufacturers switched to the Swiss Weinmann brakes and wheels equipped with CLB became very rare.
In 1984 the company was taken over by Sachs. Fichtel & Sachs bought the French manufacturers Huret and Maillard as early as 1981 . During this period, CLB also entered into a cooperation with Vitus , who built the first aluminum frames. Sachs found that CLB and other French companies had outdated manufacturing and management. In addition, the union has too much influence on the companies. In the mid-1980s, Sachs closed the Huret, CLB and Maillard operations. Sachs itself existed with its bicycle division until 1997 and was then taken over by SRAM .
