Peugeot (cycling team)
French professional cycling team (1901–1986)
Peugeot team was a French professional cycling team that promoted and rode Peugeot racing bikes.
It is listed as the most successful cycling team of all time on cyclingranking.com, with a large margin on the second placed team, Alcyon.
History
Peugeot cycles started producing bicycles in 1882, and from then on it was involved in sponsoring cyclists.
At the beginning of the century a Peugeot cycling team existed. Hippolyte Aucouturier rode Peugeot cycles when he won Paris–Roubaix and Bordeaux–Paris in 1903, and when he was disqualified from the 1904 Tour de France in which he had finished fourth overall, for the illegal use of trains and cars.
But the Peugeot team obtained success for the following four years in the Tour de France with Louis Trousselier, René Pottier and Lucien Petit-Breton. The Peugeot team finished second overall in the 1912 Giro d'Italia. The team would obtain two further victories in the Tour de France with Belgian Philippe Thys before the outbreak of the First World War.
Directly after the war, Peugeot cycles was one of the companies that made a consortium that pooled their resources into a collective cycling team called La Sportive. The objective of forming such a consortium was to keep the sport alive in the poor post-war economic situation.
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