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Every marque logo in the Ebykr collection, lifted onto a clear background: 114 bicycle and component maker marks cut from catalogs, advertisements, posters and decal sheets.
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…
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…
Step back into the workshop of Spécialités TA, the small Clamart firm whose duralumin chainrings and cranksets carried some of the biggest names in cycling for over 70 years. This gallery gathers the company’s period advertisements, catalog pages and technical…
Cycles Automoto’s posters run from 1899 to 1950, very nearly the marque’s whole poster life, and 16 originals are gathered here — from the art nouveau years in Saint-Étienne to the Champs-Élysées after the war. Automoto built in an industrial…
Legnano stands firmly among the tallest names in all of Italian cycling racing history. Founder Emilio Bozzi and his namesake bicycle and component manufacturer and distributor tapped into a collective competitive spirit to usher in modern transportation solutions starting back…
Edoardo Bianchi and his namesake bicycle, motorcycle and automobile company have helped usher in modern transportation since 1885. That’s because Bianchi and his company’s “Reparto Corse” racing division were first to use several innovations that have since become cornerstone features…
Célestin Auguste Ripet patented the use of special annular bearings in bicycle bottom brackets and hubs in 1933. Rousson & Chamoux were already producing a wide range of hubs, pedals, chainrings and crank arms under the trademark name RFG by…
Ernesto Colnago was perhaps the greatest racing bicycle designer, builder and mechanic of the 20th century. He started in 1945 at the prestigious Gloria Bicycle Company when just 13 years old. After apprenticing there, Colnago enjoyed a relatively brief racing…
Terrot advertised on the wall for 60 years, and the sheets that survive run from the earliest days of the French cycling poster to the last of the marque’s bicycles, and 21 of them are gathered here, from the 1890s…
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