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Daniel Rebour on Ebykr: 11 articles across six makers, with three histories, three galleries, two guides, two Timelines and one build sheet.
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Spécialités TAHistoryAn absurdly small French workshop that made the alloy chainring its calling and built the immortal Pro 5 Vis crankset. Meet Spécialités TA on Ebykr.
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Alex SingerHistoryCycles Alex Singer of Levallois-Perret since 1938: lightweight tandems, the Csuka succession, a frame in 60 hours and the constructeur's whole bicycle.
Ebykr recently enjoyed a conversation with the Italian-based Dragonetti covering wide reaching topics like aesthetics, Masi catalogs, uncelebrated heroes and the future of his Cicli su Carto project. Given Dragonetti's…
Random Rebour: Random Bicycle Drawing by Daniel Rebour. Enjoy a different illustration by famous bicycle illustrator Daniel Rebour each visit.
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…
Spécialités TAGalleryA gallery of original Spécialités TA advertisements, catalog pages and technical illustrations spanning 1948 to 1983, from the Clamart chainring and crankset maker.
MafacGuideA practical guide to identifying and dating Mafac brakes — why there is no date code to rely on, how the Racer's arm markings changed, which models arrived when and how to read Mafac's own three-digit lever code.
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…
Alex SingerTimelineCycles Alex Singer began as one man's answer to bad roads and long distances, a tiny Paris-area atelier built on the conviction that a touring bicycle should be designed entirely around the rider who will use it. What started as…
Maxi-CarTimelineMaxi-Car did one thing and did it better than anyone else: make great bike hubs. The marque is a braid of three separate French houses that include a Lyon artisan who patented the application of demountable annular bearings to…
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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