Since I gave mine away, I fell even more lost, and I can not ask back for it. Thank you for all you wonderful bikes, specially all the colors you picked. My mother, when she visit me here in the USA, for mongoose bicycles my birthday, she purchased me a Schwinn bike. I gave it to my eye Doctors daughter, I did not know I would miss it so much. Ever since I gave it away, I was very sick, Kidney, Liver, and Diabetic.
With no buyers, Excelsior-Henderson motorcycles were discontinued in 1931. W. Schwinn returned to Chicago and in 1933 introduced the Schwinn B-10E Motorbike, actually a youth’s bicycle designed to imitate a motorcycle. The company revised the model the next year and renamed it the Aerocycle. For the Aerocycle, F. W. Schwinn persuaded American Rubber Co. to make 2.125-inch-wide (54.0 mm) balloon tires, while adding streamlined fenders, an imitation “gas tank”, a streamlined, chrome-plated headlight, and a push-button bicycle bell. The bicycle would eventually come to be known as a paperboy bike or cruiser. Last week, I walked into a bike shop where the smell of rubber tires and the reflection from the lighting on these shiny new bikes brought on a wave of excitement typically reserved for a 10-year old.
He pushed American suppliers to create more durable parts, including the balloon tire, and in 1934 debuted the Schwinn Aero Cycle made with an attention to both aesthetics and quality unseen from bicycle manufacturers. The new high-end children’s bicycle saw the Schwinn name become in high demand. The Schwinn brand has remained popular with consumers due to nostalgia and the retro styling of their models, however, the quality of their bikes has diminished from the ones that were produced before the dawn of the 21st century. Schwinn dominated the American bicycle manufacturing market for the majority of the 20th century, up until the 1980s when Schwinn started importing bikes from China and then they also moved their production to Asia.
An engineer by the name of Ignaz Schwinn started the company in 1895 in Chicago. Despite a bicycle boom and bust, and the Great Depression, Schwinn managed to capture much of the new market. Advertising, innovations and unique and huffy beach cruiser exclusive dealership and marketing contracts allowed his company to aggressively grow and prosper. Despite intervention by the Justice Department, with some novel legal challenges, this company was virtually a household brand.
Schwinn continued their legacy when they introduced the Schwinn Jaguar and Corvette middle-weight bicycles, and later the Sting Ray and Krate bicycles that were styled after the muscle cars of the day. WHEN Hal Sirkin was growing up in 1960s America, the bicycle that every regular American child wanted was a Schwinn. In 2001, a company called Pacific Cycle bought the Schwinn brand out of bankruptcy. Pacific Cycle, now owned by a Canadian consumer-goods firm called Dorel Industries, says the secret of its success is “combining its powerful brand portfolio with low-cost Far East sourcing.” now line the aisles at Wal-Mart. I appreciate your interest in this special line of Schwinn bicycles, and hope your heart takes a little jump if you see one of the fillet-brazed models out there. The story of these unique bicycles is a meaningful branch of Schwinn’s history.