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Classic & Vintage Lightweight Bicycles
Essays, timelines, tech specs and images preserving the great marques and the people behind them.
How to Identify and Date a Vintage Brooks Saddle Brooks has been making saddles under the same name since 1866, in a range that has changed slowly and looked similar throughout. That is wonderful for riders and… 
Bicycle Makers · USA
Bicycle Makers · EnglandLatest Articles
Freshly published across the archive
Bicycle Makers · Italy1909 Bianchi Motoring & Transportation Brochure
Component Makers · FranceThe Legacy of Spécialités TA: From “Traction Avant” to Drivetrain Perfection
Component Makers · FranceModel Guide: Idéale Saddles and Clips
Component Makers · EnglandBrooks England: Saddle Database & Model Guide
Your marques
Follow a marque and its newest work collects here. Nothing is followed yet, so these are the four Ebykr covers most deeply.
- Feature1909 Bianchi Motoring & Transportation BrochureJul 17, 2026
- TimelineBianchi History: A Timeline of Key Corporate and Technical EventsFeb 11, 2026
- HistoryBianchi History: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Oldest Bicycle EmpireFeb 11, 2026
8 postsAll coverage
- TimelineLegnano History: A Timeline of Key Racing and Corporate EventsJul 4, 2026
- GalleryLegnano Bicycles Image GalleryJun 17, 2024
- HistoryLegnano Bicycles: A Colorful History in Words & ImagesJun 17, 2024
6 postsAll coverage
- TimelineCycles Automoto: A Timeline of Key Competitive and Market EventsJan 21, 2026
- HistoryCycles Automoto History: Setting the StandardJan 21, 2026
- GalleryCycles Automoto Poster GalleryNov 6, 2025
5 postsAll coverage
- FeatureHow to Identify and Date a Vintage Brooks SaddleAug 22, 2026
- FeatureHow to Care for a Brooks Saddle: Proofide, Break-In and TensionAug 22, 2026
- HistoryBrooks England: Saddle Database & Model GuideJul 11, 2026
5 postsAll coverage
Explore by Country
The collection organized by where the bikes were built
France
How to Identify and Date a Vintage Peugeot
Bicycle Makers · France 
Idéale Saddles: Going Back in Time With Rare Company Photos
Component Makers · France 
André Maury: 28 Technical Innovations of the Bicycle Couturier
Bicycle Makers · France 
Italy
Bianchi History: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Oldest Bicycle Empire
Bicycle Makers · Italy 
Legnano Bicycles: A Colorful History in Words & Images
Bicycle Makers · Italy 
Mario Confente: Passion Personified
Bicycle Makers · Italy 
England
Hobbs of Barbican: The Strength is in the Spine
Bicycle Makers · England 
Hetchins Bicycles: Meticulously Lugged
Bicycle Makers · England 
Holdsworth: British Reliability, Personified
Bicycle Makers · England 
The collection by origin
Documented marques per country
42 marques with documented histories on Ebykr.
From the Workshop
Documented build sheets from the Tech Specs database
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1937 Caminade Caminargent Bordeaux-Paris
Build sheetCycles Rafale
Build sheet1947 Hobbs of Barbican Superbe
Build sheet1948 Automoto Concours Sportif
Build sheet1950 A. Maury Randonneur
Build sheet1951 Legnano Tipo Roma
Build sheet1951 Rene Herse Concours
Build sheet1955 Bianchi Campione del Mondo
Workshop DNA
What the 23 build sheets are made of
Brakes
Saddles
Hubs
Five of the 23 machines run no brakes at all — track and path bikes.
Explore the Timelines
Events per decade for eight of the 32 timelines — darker is busier, and every cell opens its marque’s timeline
From the Archive
Scanned catalogs, period advertisements, posters and a Random Rebour
Roughly 1,992 cataloged images, browsable by marque, type and country.
Largest collections
Cataloged images per marque
Plus 93 plates by the illustrator Daniel Rebour.
Random Rebour
A fresh plate each day
In preparation
The Ebykr Guide to Classic Lightweight Bicycles
The people, the machines and the details that identify them — a companion built from the Ebykr archive. Join the waitlist and help shape the first edition.