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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
887
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
Pierce Cycles History: A Timeline of Key Company and Bicycle Events
From gilded birdcages in a Buffalo workshop to chainless, shaft-driven bicycles that sat at the head of its catalog for 15 years,…
Open the Pierce Cycles Timeline- 1863Founder Arrives. A seventeen-year-old George Norman Pierce leaves Friendsville, Pennsylvania for Buffalo, New York in search of opportunity.
- 1900Chainless Launch. The shaft drive reaches the market on the cushion frame as Nos. 242, 244 and the…
- 1908New Name. The motor car company takes the name Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company. The bicycles were never strictly…
- 2009Museum Closes. The Pedaling History Bicycle Museum closes and its collection is later dispersed at auction.
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
