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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.
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.
Origins: From Cabinetry to Duralumin Spécialités TA is one of the most remarkable paradoxes in cycling history: an absurdly small company that has held global fame and respect since 1947. It has never employed more than a handful of managers…
From a front-wheel-drive experiment that never reached production to a crankset still made six decades after its debut, the history of Spécialités TA is the story of a tiny French workshop that chose to do a few things better than…
Stan Laferrière, Owner
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