S. Silvain reviews the various designs on offer at the bicycle shows of the winter of 1900/01. He describes the following systems:

• Gears in the rear hub.
• Gears in the bottom bracket.
• Gear systems that use two chains.
• Shaft-drive transmissions

He goes onto consider the new-fangled freewheels and those equally new-fangled brakes that you require when you don’t have a fixed wheel.

(Source gallica.bnf.fr/ Bibliothèque nationale de France)

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• Publisher: T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle
• Country: France
• Date: February 1901
• Derailleur brands: Hirondelle, Peugeot, Terrot
• Derailleurs: none