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Everything Ebykr holds on Bianchi: nine articles, a Timeline of 46 dated events from 1883 to 1997 and 14 documents in the archive.
The most read history of Bianchi on Ebykr.
Founded in Milan in 1885, Bianchi is the oldest bicycle company still building bicycles. The full story: the safety bicycle, royal patronage, celeste, Fausto Coppi and the classic models.
Grouped by format, the most read first.
Edoardo Bianchi from the Martinitt orphanage to Via Nirone, and the Reparto Corse that carried his innovations from Queen Margherita to Coppi's celeste.
Where the Bianchi eagle came from: the 1901 trademark, the Savoy arms added in 1905 and a 1927 short story in which an eagle concedes to a Bianchi bicycle.
Bianchi's embossed, cord-tied motoring brochure of 1909, with the eagle and House of Savoy shield, from the years Bianchi built cars as well as bicycles.
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.
The key dates of Bianchi from the Via Nirone workshop of 1885 to Cycleurope: the Reparto Corse, celeste, Coppi and Gimondi, Autobianchi and Treviglio.
The build sheet of a 1955 Bianchi Campione del Mondo in celeste: Campagnolo Gran Sport gears and hubs, Universal brakes, Ambrosio bars and Fiamme rims.
The build sheet of a 1964 Bianchi Specialissima in original green: Columbus tubing, Campagnolo Record, Universal brakes and Fiamme Red Label rims.
Bianchi in pictures, from an 1880s Milan engraving through catalog covers, advertisements and team photographs to a modern celeste L'Eroica frameset.
Where Bianchi is named outside its own pages: 16 articles, one build sheet and 32 archive documents from eight other makers and three publications.
The articles that name Bianchi most often first.
…of a Grand Tour carried a promise stamped on its down tube. A glittering badge -- often Bianchi, Colnago, Pinarello, Atala -- sold the illusion that any amateur could walk into a high-street shop and purchase the…
…firm of some 800 workers at the time, made Campagnolo's hubs and introduced him to Bianchi, which then went on to fit Campagnolo gears across its racing range. Ebykr's own 1940s Cavalieri with the Cambio Corsa…
…doubt profitable), the racing world promoted an emerging rivalry between the Legnano and Bianchi teams, the latter being a far older company established in 1885, who must have seen Legnano as something of an…
…for many of us vintage bicycle enthusiasts. While not as appealing or recognizable as Bianchi's bluish-green celeste color, Legnano's "verde transparente" color still manages to capture that brand's identity and…
…a precision firm of some 800 workers, made Campagnolo's hubs and introduced him to Bianchi, which went on to fit Campagnolo gears across its racing range. 1940 · Market Adoption · Bianchi's 1940 catalog, in…
…1987 · Strategic Pivot · Bozzi's heirs licensed the Legnano brand to long-time rival Bianchi, with Legnano allowed to retain a semi-autonomous identity while marketing lower-range bicycles. 1997 · Corporate…
…domestic market. Eight years later in 2000, a Swedish company bought both Cycleurope and Bianchi, and assigned Bianchi the continuing role of making race bicycles. Today, Gitane makes Gitanes again, under the new…
…rear derailleur of the 1960s, a model no catalog in the archive shows, on Ebykr's 1964 Bianchi Specialissima. The Nuovo Record from catalog No. 15. It first appears as the "1020/a Cambio Nuovo Record" in catalog…
…putting Masi transfers on their frames. For example, Fausto Coppi was contracted with Bianchi, yet the frame he rode was actually a Masi. Eddy Merckx's World Championship Faema bike was also born from the hands…
…built his son a small workshop at the family home in 1968. By 1970, a contract with Bianchi made it clear Confente needed to hire help and move to a facility able to handle the increased production demand.
…French market. 2000 · Acquisition · A Swedish company bought both Cycleurope and Bianchi, assigning Bianchi the continuing role of building the group's race bicycles and further diminishing Gitane's…
…how to identify and date a vintage Brooks saddle and how to identify and date a vintage Bianchi and how to identify and date a vintage Schwinn, with more to follow. To compare your machine against documented builds…
…the brand into an industrial juggernaut (much like others including: Automoto, Bianchi and Colnago, to start the alphabet). They sponsored their first world champion, sprinter Paul Bourillon, in 1896, and…
…themselves at this same crossroads in the early to mid-20th century, like Adler and Bianchi and Clément. What sublime bikes we would all be riding today! About Historical Idéale Leather · Tron purchased an…
…was consolidated by a few key Asian OEMs like Giant (Trek, Schwinn, Colnago, Bianchi) and Merida (Specialized, Centurion, Felt, GT) that remain dominant today. Sound familiar? Mercier Méca Dural…
…Lightweights and the Schwinn Timeline. The Ebykr Identify and Date series also covers Bianchi, Raleigh, Peugeot, Fuji and Pierce, with every guide gathered on the Identify and Date hub. Article Sources (Click to…
Bicycles in the Tech Specs database that name Bianchi.
Filed under other makers and publications whose words name Bianchi; the biggest share first.
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