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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provoking imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.
Ebykr celebrates the classic lightweight bicycle: essays, timelines, tech specs and images preserving the great marques and the people behind them.
Born from postwar scarcity, Holdsworth grew from a home-based cycling-apparel venture into one of the great names in British lightweight…
Very few names carry the same quiet authority in a modern bike shop as Cinelli. Born from the restless mind…
Nearly a century before swoopy modern wonderbikes claimed aluminum frames and quick-disassembly travel bikes as innovations, Pierre Caminade had already…
The first Bridgestone I encountered was in 1994, the last year the company sold bicycles in the USA, when I bought an RB-T after a long search for a good touring bike that could be used for commuting — and which I…
Carlton Cycles, founded in Carlton, England in 1896, built wide-tired roadsters before a mid-1930s pivot toward racing and club machines gave rise to one of Britain's most respected, if still under-recognized, lightweight marques. This timeline traces its rise under the O'Donovan family through a 1960 acquisition by Raleigh to its eventual wind-down.
André Maury built his reputation in the shadow of better-known Parisian constructeurs like Alex Singer and René Herse, working first from the 15th Arrondissement and later under the corporate banner of S.E.C.T.A.M. His fillet-brazed frames and quiet technical innovations, including a 1948 threadless stem decades ahead of its time, mark this timeline of French cyclotouring's golden age.
Joseph “Jo” Routens ranked among the greatest makers of randonneur, cyclotouring and cyclosportif bicycles in cycling history, distinct from contemporaries René Herse and Alex Singer for his unwavering commitment to the everyday cyclist. This timeline traces his competitive and manufacturing legacy from the Brevet de Randonneur Alpin through his eponymous marque, anchored in Grenoble, France.
Founded in 1866 in Birmingham, England to make horse harnesses and leather goods, Brooks pivoted to bicycle saddles in the winter of 1882 and became the most enduring name in that trade. This timeline traces its long run through changes in ownership, materials and design, from steel to titanium.
Legnano secured its place in the great tradition of Italian cycling, forged by racing greats Alfredo Binda, Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi and by a corporate history flamboyant enough to include fascist political interference and outright murder. This timeline traces the marque from its 1902 origins to its twenty-first-century revival.
A broken leg ended Ernesto Colnago's brief competitive cycling career in 1951, but it did not end his passion for the sport. This timeline traces his path from that injury to a bicycle shop opened in Cambiago, Italy in 1954, and its growth into one of cycling's most celebrated frame-building houses, marked by unbreakable forks and a long collaboration with Ferrari.
Among the most recognized bicycle brands in the world, the Raleigh Cycle Company traces its roots to a twelve-person workshop in Nottingham, England producing three bicycles a week. This timeline follows its rise to the world's largest bicycle manufacturer and its long path through gearing innovation, wartime production, folding bikes and mountain bikes to a 2012 sale to Accell Group.
From its 1887 beginnings as a modest textile workshop built by Charles Terrot in rural Dijon, France, the Terrot enterprise grew into a resoundingly popular manufacturer of bicycles and motorcycles over the next three quarters of a century. This timeline traces its groundbreaking products, aggressive marketing and podium record from 1887 to 1970.
Gitane took its name from founder Marcel Bruneliere's own nickname, given to him by his wife for his constant continent-spanning dealmaking, and applied it to bicycles beginning in 1930. This timeline traces the marque's Tour de France triumphs under Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault and Greg LeMond through its eventual reduction to a licensed name on generic bicycles.
Bayliss-Wiley Co. Ltd. was a highly respected designer and manufacturer of bicycle components for nearly a full century, ahead of its time as inventor of the world's first cassette hub in 1938 and bespoke supplier to British cycling and automotive companies alike. This timeline traces its corporate lifecycle through motorcar production and changes of ownership to its 1969 fade into Renold Chains Ltd.
The full history of Cycles Peugeot: from a family steel foundry in Montbéliard to a record ten Tour de France titles and the lightweight PX-10 and PY-10 racers prized by collectors today. Along the way, a family divided between the bicycle and the automobile, a folding bicycle built for soldiers, and the checkerboard jersey that defined an era of French racing.