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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provocative imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.
Classic & Vintage Lightweight Bicycles
Histories, timelines, tech specs, dating guides and an archive of period catalogs, preserving the great marques and the people behind them.
How to Identify and Date a Vintage Idéale Saddle A practical guide to dating an Idéale saddle — why there is no date code, what the initials on the badge tell you, which models arrived when, how… 
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Identify and Date Your Bike
Makers stamped dates into frames and parts. Here is when each code applied, from the Ebykr dating guides.
Date codes at a glance
1955 to 2001 · select a maker for its method
Also charted on Identify and Date: Brooks saddles Campagnolo Nuovo Record Maillard and Normandy hubs Stronglight cranks Cinelli frames Fuji frames Hobbs of Barbican frames
Your marques
Follow a marque and its newest work collects here. Nothing is followed yet, so these are the four Ebykr covers most deeply.
- Feature1909 Bianchi Motoring & Transportation BrochureJul 17, 2026
- TimelineBianchi History: A Timeline of Key Corporate and Technical EventsFeb 11, 2026
- HistoryBianchi History: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Oldest Bicycle EmpireFeb 11, 2026
8 postsAll coverage
- FeatureHow to Identify and Date a Vintage Idéale SaddleOct 7, 2026
- GalleryIdéale Saddles Image GalleryAug 20, 2026
- HistoryModel Guide: Idéale Saddles and ClipsJul 11, 2026
6 postsAll coverage
- TimelineLegnano History: A Timeline of Key Racing and Corporate EventsJul 4, 2026
- GalleryLegnano Bicycles Image GalleryJun 17, 2024
- HistoryLegnano Bicycles: A Colorful History in Words & ImagesJun 17, 2024
6 postsAll coverage
- TimelineCycles Automoto: A Timeline of Key Competitive and Market EventsJan 21, 2026
- HistoryCycles Automoto History: Setting the StandardJan 21, 2026
- GalleryCycles Automoto Poster GalleryNov 6, 2025
5 postsAll coverage
Explore by Country
The collection organized by where the bikes were built
France
The collection by origin
Documented marques per country
45 marques with documented histories on Ebykr.
From the Workshop
The most-read build sheets in the Tech Specs database
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Build sheet
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1951 Legnano Tipo Roma
Build sheet1964 Legnano Pista
Build sheet1964 Bianchi Specialissima
Build sheet1967 Jo Routens Randonneur
Build sheet1940s Cavalieri Cambio Corsa
Build sheet1963 Cinelli Mod. Super Corsa
Build sheet1989 Raleigh USA Team Pro Track
Build sheet1958 Goëland Randonneur
Workshop DNA
What the 25 build sheets are made of
Brakes
Saddles
Hubs
Six of the 25 machines run no brakes at all — track and path bikes.
Explore the Timelines
Events per decade for eight of the 34 timelines — darker is busier, and every cell opens its marque’s timeline
From the Archive
The period catalogs readers are opening now, the largest image collections and a Random Rebour
Bianchi 1987 Catalog — Road & Sport Bicycles 
Raleigh 1984 Catalog — Racers: The Race-Bred Raleighs 
Idéale 1970s Advertisement — Tron et Berthet, le Caillebotis Français 
Brooks 1933 Catalog — Saddles and Riding Kit for Cyclists and Motor Cyclists (List No. 168) 
Mercier 1983 Catalog — Touring, Road & Competition Bicycles 
Random Rebour Roughly 2,052 cataloged images, browsable by marque, type and country.
Largest collections
Cataloged images per marque
Plus 131 plates by the illustrator Daniel Rebour.