German immigrant Ignaz Schwinn launched the company that bears his name in 1895 and set the bicycling standard in the U.S. for decades. Here the Black Phantom,

Traces the career of Schwinn, from its uncontested predominance over the bicycle market of the 1950s to its failure to cope with the mountain bike fad of the 19

For the past 107 years, Schwinn bicycles have defined the fun of cycling for countless Americans. No other bicycle has won the hearts of kids or the devotion of

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This economic and technical history of the early American bicycle industry focuses on the crucial period from 1876 to the beginning of World War I. It looks par