French Acatene Bicycle Poster 0000-1334

Acatene is the French word for chainless, an innovation particularly welcome to women of the period (like Brunnhilde here) whose long voluminous skirts could easily tangle in a regular cycles chain drive. That unchained sentiment is echoed by both the mythic bird in the process of rending an unlucky chain to bits in the glow of the Latin sun, as well as with the Valkyrian rider preparing to take to the road on a model supplied with G & J tires-after she finishes operatically singing her rides praises, that is.

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