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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provocative imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.

Component Makers · France
Everything Ebykr holds on Duralumin: two articles, a Timeline of nine dated events from 1909 to 1992 and seven documents in the archive.
The history of Duralumin on Ebykr.


Durable but lightweight materials have appealed to bicycle builders since the beginning of bicycle time. From steel alloys to aluminum alloys to carbon composites, the nexus of these two build qualities is something of a holy…
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Duralumin 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…
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