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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 machines and the people who made them — the great marques, the landmark bicycles they built 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 makers and their stories
Capsule histories of the great marques and constructeurs — the workshops, the racers and the people behind the head badges, distilled from two decades of Ebykr research.
The machines that defined an era
Landmark models from the golden age of the lightweight: what made each one matter, how the builds were specified and what to look for when one crosses your path today.
Serial numbers and date codes
Where each maker stamped its frames and how the numbering ran, plus the dating marks Stronglight, Simplex, Huret, MAFAC, Mavic and Brooks left on their parts — decoded in one place.
Reading a frame
Lugs, dropouts, braze-ons and finish details that narrow a build to its maker and era, with photographs of the telltale features.
Built from the archive, not from hearsay
Ebykr has spent two decades documenting the great marques. The histories, timelines, build sheets, galleries, catalogues and serial records on this site are the guide's raw material — every model table is checked against period catalogues 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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