Let’s me start off by properly framing your expectations. The Schwinn EC1 isn’t a powerhouse, and it doesn’t have top-shelf components. But what it does have is a reliable and peppy motor, a suite of ...

Every bike curmudgeon on the internet will grumble "steel is real" if you trot out an old frame. Steel frames last forever, you're told, and are easily repaired if anything breaks. Well, my old steel ...

When Janie Johnson took a job in 1981 at the new Schwinn bicycle plant gearing up in Greenville, Miss., she planned on staying for the remainder of her working life. Instead, the 57-year-old secretary ...

Taped to an assembly-room wall in the Schwinn (USA)-Csepel Ltd. bicycle factory is a sheet of paper filled with a grid of numbers. It is the Rosetta stone to capitalism. Numbers in a column on the ...