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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provoking imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.
A De Rosa frame begins and ends with a single conviction: that steel, and later titanium, aluminum and carbon, can always be coaxed a little further toward perfection. From a teenage apprentice bent over a Milan workbench to a family…
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.
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.
From a 19th-century grain mill to a record ten Tour de France victories, the story of Cycles Peugeot spans more than two centuries. This timeline charts the industrial milestones, technical innovations and racing triumphs that carried the Peugeot Lion from the steel foundry to the front of the peloton.
Ernesto Colnago was perhaps the greatest racing bicycle designer, builder and mechanic of the 20th century. He started in 1945 at the prestigious Gloria Bicycle Company when just 13 years old. After apprenticing there, Colnago enjoyed a relatively brief racing…
Bicycle racers face immense danger every time they swing their leg over the top tube, from broken bones to outright death. Some might even argue a severe bone break can be worse than death itself, for it can spell the end…