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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provoking imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.
Brooks has been making saddles under the same name since 1866, in a range that has changed slowly and looked similar throughout. That is wonderful for riders and awkward for anyone holding a saddle and wondering what it is. Two…
A practical, honest guide to dating a vintage Raleigh — the model ladder, the frame numbers that genuinely decode (and the ones that do not), the Sturmey-Archer and component date codes, and matching it to a catalogue.
The most reliable way to date a classic bicycle is to read the date codes its makers stamped into the parts. A maker-by-maker reference — Campagnolo, Shimano, Maillard, Simplex, Stronglight and Sturmey-Archer — and how to combine them.
A practical, honest guide to working out what your Peugeot is and when it was built — reading the model, the frame, the components and the decals together, because the serial number alone will not tell you.
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