Download or read book Schwinn Bicycles written by Jay Pridmore and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 100-year history of Schwinn, the best-known name in American bicycling. German immigrant Ignaz Schwinn launched the company that bears his name in 1895 and set the bicycling standard in the U.S. for decades. Lavishly illustrated with original archival material, much of it from Chicago's Bicycle Museum of America, and specially commissioned photography. Covers Schwinn's technical developments, racing history, significant models like the Black Phantom, Varsity, Paramount, Fastback, and many more. Also discusses Schwinn's short-lived foray into motorcycle manufacturing.
Download or read book The Red Schwinn Bicycle written by Barrie C Bartulski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how six boys' lives are touched by the use of a special red bicycle.
Download or read book No Hands written by Judith Crown and published by Henry Holt & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the career of Schwinn, from its uncontested predominance over the bicycle market of the 1950s to its failure to cope with the mountain bike fad of the 1980s, to its ultimate descent into bankruptcy and corporate takeover. Tour.
Download or read book Build Your Own Klunker Turn Your Vintage Schwinn Bicycle Into a 26 BMX Cruiser written by Tim A. Swike and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop wasting time fixing some overpriced import mountain bike with shocks that leak and gears that won't shift. It's time to build your own USA custom made singlespeed klunker! Older electroforged Schwinns are inexpensive, last forever, and in large supply on Ebay. Since these bikes don't ever expire, everyone has one, bringing their price way down. These American steel frame bikes are cool, tuff as nails, and very reasonably priced. Restoring an old bicycle with some newer and lighter parts is super easy. I'll show you how. If you read this book, you should be proficient at building or restoring older Schwinn, Columbia, Huffy, Murray, Western Flyer, Sears, and many other bicycles. This book is printed in black and white to keep costs down, but comes with a full color PDF ebook for your computer or smart phone. Just check out the bonus website link in the book. Annihilate the dirt trails with a 26" klunker, just like the original "mountain bike" riders did in the 70's.
Download or read book How to Restore Your Collector Bicycle written by William M Love and published by Wam Books. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All aspects of bicycle restoration are covered including finding, evaluating and choosing a bicycle. Planning the restoration project, along with disassembly, mechanical restoration, cosmetic restoration (with and without painting), and assembly are all discussed in detail. There are sections about parts, accessories and sources as well. Additionally, you will find over 250 photos of bicycles and their parts, showing off the splendor of these vintage treasures.
Download or read book Schwinn written by Don Rauf and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many children of the sixties, the gift of a Schwinn was a ticket to freedom, a chance to feel the wind on their face and the steady rotation of rubber at their feet. The Schwinn took many through their childhood adventures, with memories filled of after school, free-range bike rides around the neighborhood with friends, the late afternoon sun shining off of the gleaming painted frame and stainless steel fenders. The 1960s and 70s saw a boom of Schwinn Sting-Rays, which appealed to young riders who had to have the hottest “muscle” bike in town, and sold like hotcakes to parents everywhere scrambling to get the best Christmas present ever for their kids. From its early years dominating the youth market with Sting-Rays to the teen-friendly Varsity and Continental models to its most recent parent-friendly iterations of the Easy-Steer and Roadster Trikes, the Schwinn weaves itself through 120 years of American history. For many, the Schwinn will be forever tied to the memories of their childhood, to a simpler time of freedom, laughter, and endless wonder. Schwinn: The Best Present Ever is a visual celebration of this American icon, with a complementary narrative throughout that tells the Schwinn story.
Download or read book New American Motorcyclist and Bicyclist written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Schwinn written by Lou Dzierzak and published by . This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its inception as Arnold, Schwinn & Co. in 1895, Schwinn has built what have arguably been the best and most desirable bikes in the United States. This new title in the Enthusiast Color Series offers a comprehensive overview of the great Schwinn bikes, with chapters devoted to the early history of the company and its bicycles, classic balloon-tire bikes of the 1930s and 1940s, stylish and groundbreaking lightweights and racers of the 1950s, and all those fabulous Sting-ray and Krate "muscle bikes" from the 1960s and swingin' '70s. In addition, the modern era of mountain bikes, road bikes, BMX bikes, and the return of the Black Phantom are also featured. All-color photography of bicycles in mint condition is supplemented with classic period print advertisements.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1972 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bicycle Design written by Tony Hadland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's two-hundred-year evolution. The bicycle ranks as one of the most enduring, most widely used vehicles in the world, with more than a billion produced during almost two hundred years of cycling history. This book offers an authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's technical and historical evolution, from the earliest velocipedes (invented to fill the need for horseless transport during a shortage of oats) to modern racing bikes, mountain bikes, and recumbents. It traces the bicycle's development in terms of materials, ergonomics, and vehicle physics, as carried out by inventors, entrepreneurs, and manufacturers. Written by two leading bicycle historians and generously illustrated with historic drawings, designs, and photographs, Bicycle Design describes the key stages in the evolution of the bicycle, beginning with the counterintuitive idea of balancing on two wheels in line, through the development of tension-spoked wheels, indirect drives (employing levers, pulleys, chains, and chainwheels), and pneumatic tires. The authors examine the further development of the bicycle for such specific purposes as racing, portability, and all-terrain use; and they describe the evolution of bicycle components including seats, transmission, brakes, lights (at first candle-based), and carriers (racks, panniers, saddlebags, child seats, and sidecars). They consider not only commercially successful designs but also commercial failures that pointed the way to future technological developments. And they debunk some myths about bicycles—for example, the mistaken but often-cited idea that Leonardo sketched a chain-drive bike in his notebooks. Despite the bicycle's long history and mass appeal, its technological history has been neglected. This volume, with its engaging and wide-ranging coverage, fills that gap. It will be the starting point for all future histories of the bicycle.
Download or read book A Moment in Memphis written by Oliver Fowlkes and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a Southern White boy growing up in segregated Mobile and his struggle to escape. In Part One the boy, a newly minted ACLU lawyer in Memphis, encounters racism while seeking to obtain justice for a Black youth beaten by police after Dr. King’s assassination in 1968. When threats against his family become oppressive, he flees to the North hoping to carry on his quest for justice. Part Two chronicles his attempts in Massachusetts to address issues of the disenfranchised, poor, people of color, gays, and the mentally challenged. In doing so, he confronts a North that when stripped of liberal patina is as steeped in racism as the South. This memoir is about that boy’s journey away from the society in which he grew up and his attempt to atone for guilt by leaving Memphis before his young Black client obtains justice.
Download or read book Bicycling written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bicycling magazine features bikes, bike gear, equipment reviews, training plans, bike maintenance how tos, and more, for cyclists of all levels.
Download or read book A Cycling Lexicon written by Phil Carter and published by Gingko Press Editions. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The headbadge has been affixed to finer bicycles for over a century. Made of steel, brass, copper aluminium and silver, and crafted using elaborate techniques such as die-pressing and acid etching, manufacturers transformed these badges into works of art. The badges, selected from the collection of American Jeff Corner, are given new life in this beautifully designed book by Phil Carter of Carter Wong design.
Download or read book Where the Hell Is Turtle Creek written by Barrie C. Bartulski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Where the Hell Is Turtle Creek? author Barrie Bartulski presents his honest and sometimes humorous memoir of his childhood in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. He paints a portrait of a happy, unique childhood complete with mean teachers and close buddies. These stories capture the adventures of a group of children, from mixed ethnic and religious backgrounds, growing up in the 1940s and 50s in Turtle Creek, a small town in western Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Most of the stories take place around Turtle Creeks Saint Colmans Catholic elementary school and the public junior and senior high school. The discipline administered by a few of the Sisters of Mercy at Saint Colmans School was overly aggressive and would not happen today with the special training that teachers now receive. Bartulski shares it to illustrate an area that was much on the minds of children in those days. The Catholic Church has since banned all paddlingwonderful news but a little late for him and his pals. He has lovingly captured a lost time, the time when a boy could be carefree and be mostly concerned about what games he and his pals were going to play that day. They are memories to be cherished and experienced time and time again, winningly recounted in Where the Hell is Turtle Creek?
Download or read book The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World written by Major Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1975-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book An Unexpected Attraction written by Kristi Marson and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tessa Palmer finds herself in a small town along the Mississippi River following the news of her father's recent death. Her father had moved to the little town after his wife had died several years earlier and had opened a camera shop, something he had always dreamed of. Tessa hopes to finalize her father's estate quickly and get back to her busy life in the city, where she is a photographer. Tessa becomes fast friends with a middle-aged woman who takes her under her wing and introduces her to her family and the life that she has in the Mississippi River town. The river town begins to charm Tessa with its beauty and weaves its way into her heart. She meets two totally different men who change all her original plans to leave quickly. After Tessa's father's camera shop is vandalized, she stumbles upon a discovery and doesn't realize the danger that is in store for her.