Image Galleries

10 galleries Ebykr has arranged and captioned, 473 pictures in all. Open one to see it whole, or browse every picture in them below.

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Bianchi · 72 imagesBianchi Bicycles Image GalleryEdoardo 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…Automoto · 17 imagesCycles Automoto Poster GalleryCycles Automoto’s posters run from 1899 to 1950, very nearly the marque’s whole poster life, and 16 originals are gathered here — from the…Colnago · 27 imagesErnesto Colnago Photo GalleryErnesto Colnago was perhaps the greatest racing bicycle designer, builder and mechanic of the 20th century.  He started in 1945 at the prestigious Gloria…Idéale · 78 imagesIdéale Saddles Image GalleryIdéale saddles were made at Pont-Saint-Pierre in the Eure for most of the 20th century, first by the Tron family, as F. Tron and…Legnano · 38 imagesLegnano Bicycles Image GalleryLegnano stands firmly among the tallest names in all of Italian cycling racing history. Founder Emilio Bozzi and his namesake bicycle and component manufacturer…Marque logos · 127 imagesMarque Logo GalleryEvery marque logo in the Ebykr collection, lifted onto a clear background: 114 bicycle and component maker marks cut from catalogs, advertisements, posters and…Maxi-Car · 43 imagesMaxi-Car Hubs History & Image GalleryCélestin Auguste Ripet patented the use of special annular bearings in bicycle bottom brackets and hubs in 1933. Rousson & Chamoux were already producing…Schwinn · 22 imagesSchwinn Catalog and Advertisement GallerySchwinn printed more paper than almost any American bicycle company and a great deal of it survives. This gallery gathers the catalog pages, dealer…Spécialités TA · 33 imagesSpécialités TA Advertisement GalleryStep back into the workshop of Spécialités TA, the small Clamart firm whose duralumin chainrings and cranksets carried some of the biggest names in…Terrot · 21 imagesTerrot Poster GalleryTerrot advertised on the wall for 60 years, and the sheets that survive run from the earliest days of the French cycling poster to…

Every picture in the galleries

473 pictures

Montage of five close-up Legnano down-tube frame decals in varied scripts and colors, with the round Legnano crest and wordmark logo at lower right.Legnano · PhotographMontage of five close-up Legnano down-tube frame decals in varied scripts and colors, with the round Legnano crest and wordmark logo at lower right.Bianchi Milano poster celebrating the 1949 to 1952 Giro d'Italia and Tour de France wins, riders in pink and yellow jerseys around a grid of race photosBianchi · Poster · 1949Bianchi Publication Showing 1949-1952 Giro and TdF VictoriesThe nose of an Idéale 59 embossed Made in France, clamped to a Zeus seatpost whose plate carries the Zeus nameIdéale · PhotographIdéale Saddle With Integrated Zeus Seat PostAdvertisement with TA gear logo tagline about cycle transmission quality and a Rebour crankset drawingSpécialités TA · IllustrationSpécialités TA — "world's finest cycle transmission" advertisementAdvertisement showing a silver and red Schwinn Competition Scrambler SX1000 with callout lines to its components, beside a young rider in red racing kit, headed New for 1979Schwinn · Advertisement · 1979Schwinn Competition Scrambler SX1000 advertisement, 1979Tinted archival photograph of a Legnano racing cyclist in a green jersey with red collar and sleeves, goggles on his white cap and a spare tubular over one shoulder, holding a pink Gazzetta dello Sport beside another man.Legnano · Photograph · 1940'Italia-gino-bartali-fausto-coppi-legnanoDaniel Rebour pen illustration of a TA crankset mounted on a bicycle frame with chain and chainguard visibleSpécialités TA · IllustrationTA crankset mounted on frame — Daniel Rebour illustrationColor advertisement showing the film actor Buck Jones in a cowboy hat riding a green Schwinn-Built lightweight beside his white horse at a paddock fence, above the script line For the Ride of a LifetimeSchwinn · Advertisement · 1941Buck Jones Schwinn-Built advertisement, c.1941An Idéale TB 1 in deep red suede, unsprung and photographed against white to show its narrow nose and flared tailIdéale · PhotographIdéale Profil TB 1 Saddle With Red Suede TopLegnano brand logo, the Ciclo Legnano crest with the sword-and-shield warrior above the red Legnano script wordmarkLegnano · Photograph · 1965Legnano d'Italia LogoExploded technical diagram of a complete TA crankset including chainring axle bearings and fastenersSpécialités TA · PhotographTA crankset — exploded parts diagramBlack-and-white studio portrait photograph of Emilio Bozzi, a balding man in a light tweed suit and patterned tie, arms crossed, looking off to one side.Legnano · PhotographEmilio Bozzi, the Milan industrialist whose firm built the Legnano marque, as identified in the archive.Marcel Berthet crouched inside the Vélo Torpille Bunau-Varilla, a fully faired streamliner held upright at the trackside by a man in a bowler hatIdéale · PhotographMarcel Berthet on Velodyne StreamlinerSedis logoSedis · LogoSedis logoTechnical line illustration of a bicycle crankset and chainring engraved with the Specialites TA badgeSpécialités TA · IllustrationTA chainring and crankset — period technical illustrationImerio Massignan in the Legnano jersey climbing a snow-walled mountain pass at the 1959 Giro d'Italia, a Direttore di Corsa car followingLegnano · Photograph · 1959Imerio Massignan Legnano Giro d'italiaPage 39 of Gene Portuesi’s Cyclo-pedia in full, listing the Idéale No. 90-3 and No. 90-2 competition saddles, the No. 91 swallow, the No. 39, the Rilsan 2000, 2001 and 2002, two saddle clips, the No. 41 cover and the No. 44 child carrierIdéale · Photograph · 1974Gene Portuesi’s Cyclo-pedia, 1974, page 39: the complete Idéale listing, of which the site previously held only a four model excerpt.Advertisement with giant TA letters surrounded by drawings of crankset pedals bottle cage and tool kitSpécialités TA · IllustrationSpécialités TA — Rebour-signed component range advertisementCompany wordmark reading "S. A. Emilio Bozzi" in navy geometric block capitals, with an ornamental descending B, on mottled gray.Legnano · PhotographThe stylized wordmark of S. A. Emilio Bozzi, the Milan firm behind the Legnano marque.F. Tron letterhead of 1 August 1910 from Pont-Saint-Pierre in the Eure, engraved with a view of the hydraulic and steam works and completed as a handwritten invoiceIdéale · Photograph · 1910F. Tron Letterhead and Invoice from 1910Black-and-white studio portrait photograph of Legnano racing cyclist Alfredo Binda posed low over the dropped bars of his bicycle, in a light jersey and dark shorts printed LEGNANO.Legnano · PhotographA Legnano campione crouched low over the handlebars, the shorts lettered LEGNANO; the archive identifies the rider as Alfredo Binda.Daniel Rebour pen and ink illustration of a five arm aluminum bicycle chainring and spider assembly face onSpécialités TA · IllustrationTA chainring — Daniel Rebour illustrationColor lithograph poster by H. Gray for the 1894 Salon du Cycle at the Salle Wagram in Paris, showing a woman in a long skirt and feathered hat beside a bicycle shod with Seddon tiresIdéale · Poster · 1894Salon du Cycle Poster by Henri Gray from 1894Fuji logoFuji · LogoFuji logoIllustration of 1896 Grand Prix Velocipedique de Paris Course de VeloBianchi · Illustration · 1896Illustration of 1896 Grand Prix Velocipedique de Paris Course de VeloGreen-patinated bronze monument of Alberto da Giussano, an armored medieval warrior raising a sword, a shield on his left arm, on a friezed stone plinth in Legnano.Legnano · PhotographGreen-patinated bronze monument of Alberto da Giussano, an armored medieval warrior raising a sword, a shield on his left arm, on a friezed stone plinth in Legnano.A nickel plated J.F. Tron saute-ruisseau skirt holder, its looped wire guard hanging below a round medallion embossed with a profile headIdéale · PhotographJF Tron "Saute-Ruisseau" Skirt Lifting DevicePage IV of the 1902 trade annual L'Industrie des Cycles et Automobiles, advertising Selles Bauriat under J.-B. Derangeon with six saddle models including the Franco-Américaine No. 52 racing patternIdéale · Catalog · 1902Selles Bauriat Catalog Page 4 from1902Gino Bartali Legnano IllustrationLegnano · IllustrationGino Bartali IllustrationHead-on portrait of Marcel Berthet on a track bicycle at the velodrome, in a chevroned jersey with both hands on the barsIdéale · PhotographMarcel Berthet at Velodrome1972 TA catalog page announcing new thermal water bottle and seatpost clamp accessoriesSpécialités TA · Catalog · 19721972 Spécialités TA — new accessories catalog pageColorized vintage postcard of the Legnano Officine Wolsit works, a domed ornate pale building fronting a wide dirt piazza with several people and children, dated 1927.Legnano · Photograph · 1927The Officine Wolsit, the Legnano works, fronting a wide piazza in a colorized 1927 postcard.Regina logoLogoRegina logoAn Idéale 64 Cyclo-Touriste in tan leather on a chrome seatpost, its hawk bill nose and Croupon Garanti oval catching the light above the coiled rear springsIdéale · PhotographIdeale No. 64 Hawk Bill Nose SaddleA restored 1904 F. Tron et Cie runabout photographed in a field, its green body and wooden bucket seat set on bright yellow wire wheelsIdéale · Photograph · 1904F. Tron & Cie Automobile from 19041940 Legnano Modello 32 roadster bicycle in side profile against a pink wall, dark frame with cream tires and a leather saddleLegnano · Photograph · 1940Legnano Mod. 32 BicyclePage 10 of the Idéale catalog of about 1936, headed Idéale Dunlop Exclusivité, showing road patterns 110, 204 and 103 and heavyweight patterns 301, 55 and 56 with rubber Dunlop topsIdéale · Catalog · 1936Idéale Dunlop Saddles Catalog Page 10 from c1936Early 1900s postcard of Piazzale e Corso Genova in Milan, a wide tree-lined boulevard with grand apartment blocks, shop awnings and tram tracksLegnano · Photograph · 1914Corsa Genova in Milan, ItalyGnome & Rhône logoGnome & Rhône · LogoGnome & Rhône logoBianchi La Bicicletta Tuttacciaio Publication from 1940Bianchi · Photograph · 1940Bianchi La Bicicletta Tuttacciaio Publication from 1940Yellow Tevano brochure cover with navy globe and quill logo and Special Competition headlineSpécialités TA · CatalogThe Tevano brochure cover, its globe-and-quill logo signaling the sub-brand's ambition to match Campagnolo's high-polish, high-status image.Bianchi Vetturetta 8hp in the Museum of Science & Technology in Milan, ItalyBianchi · PhotographBianchi Vetturetta 8hp in the Museum of Science & Technology in Milan, ItalyCatalog page showing a red Schwinn Traveler with a saddlebag, generator lighting and drop-center rims, headed The Schwinn Traveler with the lines Lightweight Design, Generator, Lights, Deluxe EquipmentSchwinn · Catalog · 1960The Schwinn Traveler, catalog page, 1960Cyclo-pedia catalog page for Idéale, describing the No. 90-3 and No. 90-2 competition saddles hand treated to Daniel Rebour's recommendations, the No. 91 swallow pattern and the No. 39Idéale · IllustrationCyclo-pedia catalog page for Idéale, describing the No. 90-3 and No. 90-2 competition saddles hand treated to Daniel Rebour's recommendations, the No. 91 swallow pattern and the No. 39Fausto Coppi on his Bianchi BicycleBianchi · PhotographFausto Coppi on his Bianchi Bicycle1908 Legnano Automobile Mod ALegnano · Photograph · 1908Legnano AutomobileBianchi Racing Team with Fausto Coppi from 1958Bianchi · Photograph · 1958Bianchi Racing Team with Fausto Coppi from 19581950s Legnano Bartali Postwar TeamLegnano · Photograph · 1950sLegnano Racing Team (1950s)

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