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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provocative imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.
What made a French constructeur, from the Concours de machines to Paris-Brest-Paris, and a guide to Ebykr's stories of René Herse, Alex Singer, Jo Routens, André Maury, Goëland, Caminade and the Lefol fender works.
René Herse, the aircraft mechanic who became the greatest of the French constructeurs: his duralumin parts, his wins at the Concours de machines and Paris-Brest-Paris, his champion daughter Lyli and the revival of his name.
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.
A practical guide to dating an Idéale saddle — why there is no date code, what the initials on the badge tell you, which models arrived when, how the alloy stamps and the rodée main mark narrow the window and how to date the paper.
A practical guide to identifying and dating Mafac brakes — why there is no date code to rely on, how the Racer's arm markings changed, which models arrived when and how to read Mafac's own three-digit lever code.
Maxi-Car did one thing and did it better than anyone else: make great bike hubs. The marque is a braid of three separate French houses that include a Lyon artisan who patented the application of demountable annular bearings to the…
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