It’s a story of 100 years of Americana, and really a rich story of 100 years of cycling as well,” said Daniel Clarke, the filmmaker responsible for the documentary.

A book on the downfall of Schwinn Bicycle that grew out of a Crain’s Chicago Business project is, after three decades, moving ...

Lance Armstrong has signed on to narrate the feature documentary “No Hands: The Wild Ride of the Schwinn Bicycle Company,” ...

From its 1895 founding to its 1992 bankruptcy, "No Hands" charts Schwinn's rise, cultural impact and eventual collapse ...

Lance Armstrong has narrated a new documentary on the history of the legendary American company, Schwinn Bicycles. The ...

A Bloomington-Normal historian says bicycles were once a top export from the state of Illinois. Manufacturing centers in the ...

You can’t drive a car in Chicago these days without almost running into a human on a bicycle, and that is sometimes a tragedy, sometimes an annoyance, always a sign of a vibrant place adapting to ...

Ahhhh, the Schwinn Stingray. Our first real bicycle at 7 years of age was a Stingray in blue, with a five-speed gear shift on the top tube, banana seat, coaster brake, sissy bar and baseball cards ...

Geoffrey Baer takes us back to when Chicago was called “the Detroit of bicycles.” Bicycle sales in Chicago have surged over the past year as the pandemic has forced more and more people outside for ...

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In 1895, bicycle manufacturer Arnold, Schwinn & Company was founded in Chicago just as a craze for the two-wheeled conveyances was sweeping the country. But it didn’t last long. Within a few years ...

Vicky Mercado used to think of cruisers as “mom bikes” (and despite the fact that she is a mom, she didn’t mean it in a good way). That changed when her husband came home with a classic Schwinn he’d ...