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The Schwinn Bicycle Company is an American company that develops, manufactures and markets bicycles under the eponymous brand name. The company was founded by Ignaz Schwinn (1860–1948) in Chicago in 1895. [2][3] and became the dominant manufacturer of American bicycles. Schwinn first declared bankruptcy in 1992 and was restructured, in 2001 ...
Kingbay riding a Schwinn tandem with Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley at the opening celebration of Chicago's first bike lane. Keith Kingbay (April 30, 1914 – January 16, 1995) was a racer, manufacturer, advocate, and author in bicycling. He was raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA, and became a road and track racing cyclist in the 1940s before ...
Schwinn advertisement from 1946. A cruiser bicycle, also known as a beach cruiser or (formerly) motobike, is a bicycle that usually combines balloon tires, an upright seating posture, a single-speed drivetrain, and straightforward steel construction with expressive styling. Cruisers are popular among casual bicyclists and vacationers because ...
Roadmaster Bicycles were first introduced by the Cleveland Welding Company in 1936. In 1950, after purchasing the Roadmaster line of children's and youth bicycles from the Cleveland Welding Company, AMF entered the bicycle manufacturing business with its newly formed AMF Wheeled Goods Division. In 1953, after a labor strike, AMF moved bicycle ...
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Chicago, Illinois. Burial place. Rosehill Cemetery. Ignaz Schwinn (April 1, 1860 – August 31, 1948) was a German-American bicycle designer, who co-founded, and eventually owned, the Schwinn Bicycle Company. He was born in the town of Hardheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, in 1860. In his early years, he completed a mechanical apprenticeship, then he ...
Animation of a computer-generated, simplified model of bike and passive rider demonstrating uncontrolled, but stable weave. Bicycles leaning in a turn. Bicycle and motorcycle dynamics is the science of the motion of bicycles and motorcycles and their components, due to the forces acting on them. Dynamics falls under a branch of physics known as ...
The term "BMX-Cruiser" was used by one manufacturer to describe their model of a 24" wheel BMX bicycle. More so, it was used to describe a specific class of bicycle or division of racing, "BMX-Cruiser Class". This might not help clear some of the confusion here.