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A cruiser bicycle, also known as a beach cruiser or (formerly) motobike, is a bicycle that usually combines balloon tires, an upright seating posture, a single-speed drivetrain, and straightforward steel construction with expressive styling.
The Schwinn Bicycle Company is an American company that develops, manufactures and markets bicycles under the eponymous brand name. The company was originally founded by Ignaz Schwinn (1860–1948) in Chicago in 1895.
Schwinn Paramount head tube showing Nervex lugs and Campagnolo headset. The Schwinn Paramount was a high-end racing bicycle produced under the Schwinn Bicycle Company brand from 1938 through 2009.
The Raleigh Chopper is a bicycle (referred to as a wheelie bike) for children / young adults, manufactured and marketed by the Raleigh Bicycle Company of Nottingham, England. The unique design became a cultural icon and is fondly remembered by many [ quantify ] who grew up in that period.
Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (commonly known as Giant) is a Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer, recognized as the world's largest bicycle designer and manufacturer. [1] [3] Giant has manufacturing facilities in Taiwan, the Netherlands, China ,and Hungary. They have future plans for Vietnam to be the fifth location.
Roadmaster Bicycles were first introduced by the Cleveland Welding Company in 1936. In 1950, after purchasing the Roadmaster line of children's and youth bicycles from the Cleveland Welding Company, AMF entered the bicycle manufacturing business with its newly formed AMF Wheeled Goods Division.
Waterford Precision Cycles was a small bicycle manufacturer based in Waterford, Wisconsin. Waterford produced high-end, custom, hand-built, steel-frame bicycles, particularly road , criterium , stage, track, and cyclocross racing bicycles, that ranged in price from about $2,500 to $8,500.
I restored the Schwinn cruiser bike image that has been at the top of this article since at least 2006. It was replaced by an image of a Villy Custom during a recent apparent effort to promote the Villy brand. Please discuss any proposed replacement of article images here first, and get a consensus for the change.
Celebrity bicycles. The collection includes one of the modified 1953 Schwinn DX bikes from the 1985 film Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and four bicycles from Robin Williams ' collection — a 1992 high-tech Zipp bike and a white-with-polkadots La Carrera Futura 2000.
A bicycle wheel is a wheel, most commonly a wire wheel, designed for a bicycle. A pair is often called a wheelset, especially in the context of ready built "off the shelf" performance-oriented wheels. Bicycle wheels are typically designed to fit into the frame and fork via dropouts, and hold bicycle tires .