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Miche is an Italian bicycle componentry company based in San Vendemiano in the Italian Province of Treviso which was founded by Ferdinando Michelin in 1919.
Miche's line of bicycle componentry is primarily focused on road cycling. The company also produces components for track racing and sponsors the Miche (cycling team).
Miche may refer to:
- Miche (bag), a handbag company
- Miche (bread), a type of Pain de campagne
- Miche (company), an Italian bicycle company
- Miche (cycling team)
- Miche (horse), an Argentinian Thoroughbred racehorse
- Miche, a system of self-reconfiguring modular robot
- Miche, a pin used in the sport of León bowls, a variation of Basque bowls
- Miche (film), a 1932 French film
Miche (foaled in 1945) was an Argentinian Thoroughbred racehorse who was imported to the United States in 1948 where he successfully competed at the top levels of racing. He was raced from a base in California by Muriel Vanderbilt Adams, the daughter of William and Virginia Vanderbilt, both of whom were heavily involved in the sport.
Trained by Eddie Hayward for the majority of his career, in 1949 Miche equaled the Hollywood Park track record for 7 furlongs on dirt with a time of 1:21 4/5. In 1952 Eddie Hayward returned to train on the East Coast and Don Cameron took over Miche's race conditioning. Cameron had trained Count Fleet to his U.S. Triple Crown win in 1943. Under his handling, Miche set a new track record at Tanforan Racetrack of 2:02 1/5 for 1 1/4 miles on dirt and earned the most important win of his career when he was awarded first place in the Santa Anita Handicap following the disqualification of Intent for interference.
On October 3, 1952, the New York Times reported that owner Muriel Adams announced Miche's retirement as a result a leg injury sustained while competing in the 1952 Sysonby Handicap at Belmont Park in New York.
Only very modestly successful as a sire, Miche's best runner was probably Hymient who won several stakes races.
Miche is a 1932 French drama film directed by Jean de Marguenat and starring Suzy Vernon, Robert Burnier and Marguerite Moreno.
Usage examples of "miche".
It caught Miche by surprise, slammed against his chin and rocked him back.
I whirled, snapped the slug-gun into my hand, and as Miche lunged, I shot him in the stomach, faked a wild swinging attack as he bounced off the wall and fell full length at my feet.
CHAPTER III FORGOTTEN DEATH THE Club Miche was well filled, and among its customers were many who had the look of crooks.
The man was Richard Korber, regular patron at the Club Miche and a person with whom Kid Dember had conducted certain negotiations.
Nearing the street in front of the Club Miche, The Shadow picked out salient features.
True, there had been trouble in the Club Miche not very many nights ago.
Korber was correctly identified as the man who had been in the wrecked cab outside the Club Miche, but the evidence indicated that the taxi had been accidentally boxed by other cars that contained feuding gangsters.
The man who had until this morning been called Miche reached in, rustled around a bit, and pulled out another white stone.
He was dead to his people, the name Miche surrendered for the next baby to be born, as he had gotten it from his grandfather Miche when he had fallen in the feuds with the sea people.
From that point on, it was like death was fractured, and he was Miche again, or at least the ghost of Miche.
He was dressed better than Miche, with garments that were dyed two colors and not torn, but the clothes were not extravagant, nothing so grand as the robes the priests had worn on the day he left.
He had wanted to fight the sorcerer, and he had turned down the best help Miche knew how to give, and then it was over in half a dozen strikes and a pile of mud.
Miche grimaced as he saw a frog lurch its way out of the ground to come at him, followed by a duck, still trying to fly, then by something that never congealed enough for Miche to recognize it.
The land rocked and bucked in response, but Miche bent his knees and kept his feet.
Eight men had attacked it, and Miche had grabbed its back to slow it down while a spear was thrust into it.