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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provocative imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.
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…
For almost 30 years Daniel Rebour drew the French bicycle for Le Cycle: numbered pen plates that showed readers how the best constructeurs built their machines. The man, his tandem, his pen and the gift that made his drawings worth keeping.
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…
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