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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provocative imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.
Timelines
Thirty-five chronological marque histories, built event by dated event from the archive’s own articles. The 1930s is the busiest decade on record here — 116 dated events — which says as much about French constructeur culture as it does about the archive.
Timelines
35
one per marque
Dated events
888
every one sourced in an article
Span
1810–2026
Peugeot to Campagnolo
Busiest decade
1930s
116 events across 29 marques
Featured timeline · A new deep-dive each week
Raleigh for the Masses: A Timeline of a Bicycle Giant’s Evolution
Among the most recognized bicycle brands in the world, the Raleigh Cycle Company traces its roots to a twelve-person workshop in Nottingham,…
Open the Raleigh Timeline- 1885Company Founding. Richard Morriss Woodhead and Paul Eugène Louis Angois set up a small bicycle workshop on Raleigh…
- 1960Corporate Reorganization. Tube Investments (TI) acquired Raleigh outright and merged its own British Cycle Corporation — holder of…
- 1987Acquisition. A full 101 years after the Raleigh Street workshop opened, the private group Derby International —…
- 2025Corporate Liquidation. KKR handed its equity in Accell to the group's lenders and retains no shareholding, having written…
Two centuries of the lightweight bicycle
Events per decade — darker is busier, and every cell opens its marque’s timeline. The twelve earliest-founded marques are shown first; the leftmost column gathers the two events from before 1850.
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Alphabetical, each with its span, event count and decade-by-decade rhythm
