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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provocative imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.
René Herse, the aircraft mechanic who became the greatest of the French constructeurs: his duralumin parts, his wins at the Concours de machines and Paris-Brest-Paris, his champion daughter Lyli and the revival of his name.
A practical guide to dating a vintage Motobécane: telling the French bicycles from MBK and the modern imports, what the frame stamps may mean, and how the 1979 catalog, the tubing and the components date the bicycle.
Caminade made the Caminargent, an aluminum bicycle of the 1930s, and the handlebars, stems and gear hubs that went with it. This gallery gathers the advertisements, press clippings and catalogs that document the firm, among them the 1936 French catalog…
Mercier of Saint-Étienne advertised itself as the bicycle of champions, and the pictures at Ebykr bear the claim out: team photographs from the Pélissier and Magne years, Raymond Poulidor in the Mercier-Hutchinson jersey and catalog and advertising pages from the…
Jo Routens built randonneur bicycles in Grenoble, first in partnership as Hugonnier-Routens and then under his own name. This gallery gathers the period advertisements and magazine covers, the 1946 catalog photographs with the drawings made from them, workshop and street…
Peugeot made bicycles for longer than almost any other firm and advertised them in nearly every medium available. This gallery gathers the posters, brochures, catalog pages and magazine advertisements held at Ebykr, from a notice of about 1820 for the…
A practical guide to dating a vintage Bianchi: why its frame number cannot give you a year, and how the tubing, the transfers, the components and Bianchi's own catalogs from 1912 to the late 1980s can.
A practical guide to dating a vintage Schwinn: telling a Chicago-built Schwinn from a Paramount and an import, finding the frame number, reading it with the right table and confirming the year with the catalogs and the components.
In the golden age of professional cycling, the frame that crossed the finish line of a Grand Tour carried a promise stamped on its down tube. A glittering badge — often Bianchi, Colnago, Pinarello, Atala — sold the illusion that…
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