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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provoking imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.
Since the dawn of competitive bicycle racing, Italian frame builders have produced some of the world’s most painstakingly crafted machines, and of all the Italian brands desired by bicycle aficionados, vintage Masi bicycles turn up high or even highest on…
A De Rosa frame begins and ends with a single conviction: that steel, and later titanium, aluminum and carbon, can always be coaxed a little further toward perfection. From a teenage apprentice bent over a Milan workbench to a family…
Very few names carry the same quiet authority in a modern bike shop as Cinelli. Born from the restless mind of a champion racer who traded the peloton for the machine shop, the marque built its reputation not on marketing…
Legnano secured its place in the great tradition of Italian cycling, forged by racing greats Alfredo Binda, Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi and by a corporate history flamboyant enough to include fascist political interference and outright murder. This timeline traces the marque from its 1902 origins to its twenty-first-century revival.
A broken leg ended Ernesto Colnago's brief competitive cycling career in 1951, but it did not end his passion for the sport. This timeline traces his path from that injury to a bicycle shop opened in Cambiago, Italy in 1954, and its growth into one of cycling's most celebrated frame-building houses, marked by unbreakable forks and a long collaboration with Ferrari.
A Century of Celeste: Key Corporate and Technical Milestones of the World’s Oldest Bicycle Empire From its modest origins in a Milanese workshop at Via Nirone 7 to the absolute heights of professional cycling’s “Double-Double,” the history of Bianchi is…
Introduction: More Than a Bicycle, A Legacy Cast in Steel In the historical annals of cycling, one name is etched deeper than most any other: Bianchi. Founded in a Milanese workshop in 1885, it is not only the world’s oldest…
Many years ago, I was strolling through a garage sale early one Saturday morning when I stumbled upon a pile of vintage lightweight bike framesets and parts. There were quite a few nice finds in the mix: A minty fresh…
Legnano stands firmly among the tallest names in all of Italian cycling racing history. Founder Emilio Bozzi and his namesake bicycle and component manufacturer and distributor tapped into a collective competitive spirit to usher in modern transportation solutions starting back…
Legnano secured its rightful place in the great tradition of Italian cycling many epochs ago. This is largely because Legnano was and remains among the winningest brands in all of cycling racing history, with professional road greats like Alfredo Binda,…