Let’s me start off by properly framing your expectations. The Schwinn EC1 isn’t a powerhouse, and it doesn’t have top-shelf components. But what it does have is a reliable and peppy motor, a suite of ...

From streamlined Aerocycles and classic Phantoms to Varsity eight-speeds and Sting Ray Krates, vintage and antique Schwinn bicycles are runaway hits with collectors. In addition to the fond memories ...

In the glass atrium that marks the entrance to the Pacific Cycle company, the old and the new of the bicycle business are displayed side by side. Each is called the Schwinn Sting Ray, and each in its ...

Taped to an assembly-room wall in the Schwinn (USA)-Csepel Ltd. bicycle factory is a sheet of paper filled with a grid of numbers. It is the Rosetta stone to capitalism. Numbers in a column on the ...

Martin Jr. 's build started off with the solid tag team of father and son setting up to build a bike that would embody that design, but not copy it. "I wanted it to be pirate-themed; not to be known ...

When Janie Johnson took a job in 1981 at the new Schwinn bicycle plant gearing up in Greenville, Miss., she planned on staying for the remainder of her working life. Instead, the 57-year-old secretary ...

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the bike that changed it all, the limited edition “Fritz Fifty” is available this holiday season Fifty years ago, then Schwinn Vice President for Engineering, ...