This Alex Singer bike was built to withstand gravel trails 78-years-ago

Image of the Alex Singer bike against a plain white background, the frame is blue, saddle is pushed forward in an aggressive position and it features mudguards and lights.

This 1947 Alex Singer was specially built to compete in Technical Trials – Concours de Machines – gruelling French competitions for bicycle constructeurs held intermittently throughout the 1930s and ’40s.

These punishing events pitted fully loaded bikes against one another over the roughest gravel tracks of the Massif Central. The routes stretched for 460km or more.