Daniel Rebour
 

With the advent of good photographs, both film and digital, illustrations have gone the way of
lugged steel bikes in the pro peloton.
Probably the best known bicycle illustrator was Daniel Rebour. His data book is legend, and the
illustrations are top notch. I personally love the line drawings, it's probably one of my
favorite art forms
Here's an example that's interesting in that it's a threadless stem and the illustration was done in 1949.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2466/...6b16642c28.jpg
Photo courtesy Bob Hanson
Does anyone here have any original Rebour illustrations?

Post your favorite Rebour drawing.

Marty

Um, all stems are threadless, but I know what mean - a stem for a threadless headset. However, this does not appear to be the case. The headset appears to be a standard, threaded version. In this case the stem's quill or riser is simply a tube that fastens within the fork column using a standard expander bolt. The extension is then bolted onto the quill.

Threadless systems required the stem to be in contact with headest's top cup, either directly or via a set of spacers, to place a load of the top set of bearings.

He was a master!

I think Velo-Retro sells a reproduction of the "Data Book", a compilation of illustrations over the years from cycling magazines. Hours of staring and drooling!

And not just a graphic artist. He was also an avid cyclist and developed a special leather saddle treatment method:

http://os2.dhs.org/~john/rebour.jpg

These Hold Fast illustrations are pretty great.

http://prollyisnotprobably.com/holdfaststrap_01.php

http://prollyisnotprobably.com/2009/...aps_illust.php

It would have been fantastic if he ever designed a bike.

The guy had an eye for everything brilliant about bikes.

Sometimes I do bicycle illustrations in high detail on huge pieces of paper. I did one for the guy I had powdercoat my bike, to show what needed to be masked, etc, and he looked at me in shock.