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 ...

Lowriding is a family affair in the Loya family. Oscar Loya is a longtime member of Techniques car club of Los Angeles and his children, Adrian (age 6), and Azalea (age 9), are the youngest members of ...

From streamlined Aerocycles and classic Phantoms to Varsity eight-speeds and Sting Ray Krates, vintage and antique Schwinn bicycles are runaway hits with collectors. In addition to the fond memories ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...