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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provoking imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.
The Ebykr Guide
In preparation
The Ebykr Guide to Classic Lightweight Bicycles
A companion to the classic lightweight — the people who built them, the machines they made, the companies behind the head badges and the practical details that tell you who built yours, when it was made and what belongs on it.
What the first edition covers
The people behind the marques
Founders, framebuilders and racers — the hands and personalities behind the head badges, from the celebrated constructeurs to the unsung shop floors, distilled from two decades of Ebykr research.
The corporate stories
How the great names rose, merged, vanished and returned — the workshops that became empires, the empires that lost their way and the marques revived by devotees.
Construction and the builder's craft
Frames, lugs, tubing and finish — the construction choices that distinguish one builder from another and mark a machine as something special.
The componentry ecosystem
The groups and component houses that defined the builds — Campagnolo, Stronglight, Simplex, Huret, MAFAC, Mavic, Brooks and their contemporaries — and how they paired with the frames of their day.
Catalogs and advertising
The brands as they presented themselves — period catalogs, advertisements and ephemera, drawn from the Ebykr archive and read for what they reveal about each marque's ambitions.
Identifying and dating, honestly
Where makers stamped their frames, which serial systems are genuinely decodable and which are folklore — and how to date any classic by triangulating components, catalog features and frame details.
Built from the archive, not from hearsay
Ebykr has spent two decades documenting the great marques. The histories, timelines, build sheets, galleries, catalogs and serial records on this site are the guide's raw material — every model table is checked against period catalogs in the Ebykr archive rather than repeated from secondhand lists, and the first edition distills all of it into a reference you can keep at the workbench.
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Which makers, machines and mysteries should the guide take on first? Tell us what you would want on your workbench — every reply informs the table of contents.
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