When your father lands the highly coveted cover of LOWRIDER magazine, it says a lot about your childhood—in fact, it probably defines it. This is the story of Andrew Tapia, a young man who grew up ...

There’s just one problem: Put me in the ‘burbs for more than about 48 hours and I go completely batshit. I’m not sure what it is that sets me off. I completely understand the appeal of the place, ...

Say hello to Errol Hostetler and shake his hand. Hostetler is an original Schwinn company man, a holdover from the 1950s when the then-Chicago-based Schwinn took ambitious whipper-snappers and set ...

While we were on a bike ride last weekend I was having a nostalgia binge for my first new bike, a mid-1970s, bright orange, Schwinn 10-speed. Like the now classic cars or other collectible items you ...

Al Fritz, creator of the "Sting-Ray" bike for Schwinn, died last Tuesday at 88 in Barrington, Ill. His bike had a banana seat and high handlebars that curved like longhorns. It was a huge hit for ...

Back in the early 1960s, veteran US bike maker Schwinn tapped into the spirit of chopper-style motorcycles for a kids bike called the Sting-Ray. More than a decade later, the company blew up another ...