From its inception in 1895 as Arnold, Schwinn & Company, Schwinn bicycles have been the best-built and most-desired bikes produced in America. This book gives you a comprehensive overview of these great bikes. It includes chapters on the early history, balloon-tire bikes, middle-weights, lightweights, Stingrays and Krates, and the modern era of mountain bikes, road bikes, BMX, and the return of the Black Phantom.