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Tubing and materials on Ebykr: 24 articles across 11 makers, with nine Timelines, eight histories, four guides, two galleries and one build sheet.
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PeugeotHistoryCycles Peugeot from a Montbéliard steel foundry to 10 Tour de France titles: the family split over cars, the PX-10 and the checkerboard era.
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ColnagoTimelineA timeline of Colnago from Ernesto's broken leg in 1951 and his Cambiago shop of 1954 through Magni, the unbreakable forks and Ferrari to carbon fiber.
PeugeotTimelineA timeline of Cycles Peugeot from the family foundry of 1810 and the lion of 1858 through Le Grand Bi to its record 10 Tour de France victories.
SchwinnTimelineA timeline of Schwinn from Chicago in 1895 through the Paramount, the Sting-Ray and the missed bike boom to two bankruptcies and Waterford's end in 2023.
MavicTimelineTo capture the essence of Mavic is to look beyond individual patents and witness a century-plus cadence of innovation that has pulsed through the heart of Lyon since 1889. While our broader retrospective explores the human drama…
FujiTimelineFounded in 1899 as a Tokyo import house trading under a name that meant Japan-America, Fuji is one of the oldest bicycle names still in use anywhere. This timeline follows it from Meiji-era importing through domestic manufacture…
IdéaleTimelineThe history of Idéale is a century-long narrative of industrial perseverance and technical mastery that transformed a modest Parisian stamping workshop into the emblematic brand of the French saddle. Founded in 1890 by…
DuraluminTimelineDuralumin is not a bicycle marque in the usual sense. It is the trade name of an age-hardened aluminum alloy, developed in Germany and adopted across a cluster of French manufacturers who saw in it the same promise materials…
Spécialités TATimelineFrom a 1947 Clamart workshop to Sissonne today, the key dates, models and milestones of Spécialités TA, the tiny French chainring legend, on Ebykr.
CaminadeTimelineNearly a century before swoopy modern wonderbikes claimed aluminum frames and quick-disassembly travel bikes as innovations, Pierre Caminade had already built them. Working from a small Parisian atelier, Caminade pursued an…
IdéaleHistoryIdéale saddles from Jean-François Tron's Paris workshop of 1890 through Marcel Berthet and the Dunlop and Cégédur years to 82 models and the revival.
MavicHistoryMavic's first century from Lyon in 1889: the Dura rim of 1934 painted to pass as wood in the Tour, neutral race service and the aero 1980s.
SchwinnHistorySchwinn of Chicago from 1895: the American bicycle, Emil Wastyn's Paramount, the fillet-brazed sleepers, the bike boom it missed and Waterford.
CaminadeHistoryPierre Caminade's Caminargent bicycles of the 1930s: aluminum frames with cast lugs, octagonal tubes and take-apart couplings, decades ahead of their time.
DuraluminHistoryDuralumin from Alfred Wilm's German alloy of 1909 to French bicycles and components of the 1930s, the Vitus 979, its disappearance and its return.
FujiHistoryFounded in 1899 as a Tokyo trading house importing American goods, Fuji was Japan's most popular bicycle by the late 1920s and, with the S10-S of 1971, ended the assumption that a serious lightweight had to be European. This is…
ColnagoHistoryBicycle racers face immense danger every time they swing their leg over the top tube, from broken bones to outright death. Some might even argue a severe bone break can be worse than death itself, for it can spell the end of…
PeugeotGuideDate a vintage Peugeot by reading its model, frame, component codes and decals together; its serial number carries a date only from 1976.
IdéaleGuideIdéale saddles and clips model by model, with category, top and rail materials, size, weight and notes, drawn from catalogs of 1931 to 1981.
ReynoldsGuideRead a Reynolds transfer properly: what each mark guarantees, how its small print dates a frame and how to tell a respray transfer from a reproduction.
IdéaleGuideA 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 the alloy stamps and the rodée main mark narrow the window and how to date the…
IdéaleGalleryIdéale saddles were made at Pont-Saint-Pierre in the Eure for most of the 20th century, first by the Tron family, as F. Tron and later Tron et Enfants, then from 1928 by Tron et Berthet, and for much of that time they were the…
IdéaleGalleryThis feature article provides an unprecedented visual window into the industrial soul of the Idéale brand, presenting rare archival photographs of the F. Tron & Cie and Tron & Berthet facilities and the generations of artisans…
Cycle de FranceBuild sheetA 650B randonneuse built to exhibition standard in 1948 by Cycles de France of Saint-Etienne, and the two Daniel Rebour plates that put the marque on the page.
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