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Maxi-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 the…
A 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.
A 1970s Team Fuji track frame in Fuji 331 double butted chrome molybdenum, built out of the Japanese track parts bin: Nitto, Sugino, Suzue, Araya and HKK.
Brooks has been making saddles under the same name since 1866, in a range that has changed slowly and looked similar throughout. That is wonderful for riders and awkward for anyone holding a saddle and wondering what it is. Two…
A Brooks saddle is the only part of a bicycle that is expected to change shape while you own it. That is the whole idea. The leather is not upholstery stretched over a shell, it is a single hide top,…
Schwinn printed more paper than almost any American bicycle company and a great deal of it survives. This gallery gathers the catalog pages, dealer books and magazine advertisements that document the marque from a 1939 trade advertisement for racing components…
For most of the twentieth century Schwinn was simply the American bicycle, which is exactly why enthusiasts of classic lightweights tend to look past it. Behind the balloon-tire cruisers and the electro-forged Varsity sat a Chicago hand-build shop turning out Paramount racing frames, and a second line of fillet-brazed lightweights so badly marketed that almost nobody recognized what they were. This is the story of a company that built superb bicycles and could never quite bring itself to sell them.
Idéale saddles were made at Pont-Saint-Pierre in the Eure for just over a century, first by F. Tron & Cie and then by Tron et Berthet, and for much of that time they were the leather saddle a French rider…
Raleigh went from a twelve-person workshop on a Nottingham back street to the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world, and from there to a brand owned by a Dutch group under lender control. This is the full arc: Sturmey-Archer and the three-speed empire, the export trade, the Moulton fight, the Chopper, the four-man Ilkeston workshop whose frames won the 1980 Tour de France, and the long unwinding that ended manufacturing in Nottingham.
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