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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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FujiTimelineA timeline of Fuji from a Tokyo import house of 1899 through a wartime renaming, three Olympics, the S10-S and Valite to two bankruptcies and new owners.
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.
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.
MavicTimelineA timeline of Mavic from Lyon in 1889: mudguards, the Dura rim, its owners and logos, neutral race service and the wheel systems of the 1990s.
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.
IdéaleTimelineA timeline of Idéale from Jean-François Tron's Paris workshop of 1890 through Pont-Saint-Pierre and Marcel Berthet to the 1981 liquidation and the revival.
CaminadeTimelineA timeline of Pierre Caminade of Paris, about 1910 to 1951: the Rectiligne derailleur and the aluminum Caminargents that came apart with one wrench.
Spécialités TATimelineFrom a 1947 Clamart workshop to Sissonne today, the key dates, models and milestones of Spécialités TA, the tiny French chainring legend.
DuraluminTimelineA timeline of Duralumin, named by Alfred Wilm in 1909: French components of the 1930s, Gnome et Rhône bicycles of 1946 and the Vitus 979 of 1979 to 1992.
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.
FujiHistoryFuji from a Tokyo trading house of 1899 to the S10-S of 1971 that won over America: three Olympic teams, Valite tubing, titanium and two bankruptcies.
ColnagoHistoryErnesto Colnago, from the Gloria factory and the broken leg that ended his racing to the Cambiago shop of 1954, the unbreakable fork, carbon and Ferrari.
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.
PeugeotGuideDate a vintage Peugeot by reading its model, frame, component codes and decals together; its serial number carries a date only from 1976.
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.
IdéaleGuideIdéale saddles and clips model by model, with category, top and rail materials, size, weight and notes, drawn from catalogs of 1931 to 1981.
IdéaleGuideDate an Idéale saddle without a date code: the initials on its badge, when each model arrived, the alloy stamps, the rodée main mark and the catalogs.
IdéaleGalleryIdéale saddles in pictures: the Pont-Saint-Pierre works, advertising from 1894 to the 1970s, catalogs, Marcel Berthet's records and the duralumin No. 90.
IdéaleGalleryRare company photographs of Idéale, shared by Vincent Toubeau: the Pont-Saint-Pierre works, the 1935 mounting atelier and the 1929 Paris Salon.
Cycle de FranceBuild sheetA show randonneuse of 1948 from Cycles de France of Saint-Étienne: 650B wheels, Mafac cantilevers, Lefol fenders and the seat-stay gear levers Rebour drew.
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