non-fixie
Senior Retro Guru
Experience tells me not to trust a manufacturer for bike weight.
Or most other features...
I suspect they've taken the tyres off
Actually, you may well be correct. During the first years after WWII decent bicycle tyres were very hard to get in France, and the rule makers at the Concours de Machines, where weight was an important consideration, decided it would be fairer to compare the entrants without tyres.
So yes, a bike weight published in 1949 is probably without tyres.