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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provocative imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.
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.
A practical guide to dating a vintage Fuji — finding and reading the serial number that carries its build month and year, telling the build year from the model year and confirming it all against the model, the decals, the components and the catalogs.
A practical guide to reading a Reynolds transfer — what each mark actually guarantees, how its small print and the tube it names date a frame and how to tell a respray from a reproduction, drawn from Reynolds' own literature of 1972 to 1990.
A practical guide to dating a Pierce bicycle from Buffalo — what the head badge says about who built it, why the first two digits are not the year, where a frame number sits on the ladder of dated examples, what the model numbers mean and which features arrived when.
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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