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From the 1920’s until 1938 Arnold, Schwinn & Co. became primarily a producer of heavy-duty juvenile bicycles. Schwinn’s fillet-brazed CrMo models were beautiful and sweet handling, but in the 1970’s bicycle-boom they lost ground to more popular lugged-frame construction, and never recovered. Schwinn never played it conservative with their ad budget, but their best sales… Continue reading Barnard’s Schwinn Cyclery Ltd

From the 1920’s until 1938 Arnold, Schwinn & Co. became primarily a producer of heavy-duty juvenile bicycles. Schwinn’s fillet-brazed CrMo models were beautiful and sweet handling, but in the 1970’s bicycle-boom they lost ground to more popular lugged-frame construction, and never recovered. Schwinn never played it conservative with their ad budget, but their best sales… Continue reading Barnard’s Schwinn Cyclery Ltd

From the 1920’s until 1938 Arnold, Schwinn & Co. became primarily a producer of heavy-duty juvenile bicycles. Schwinn’s fillet-brazed CrMo models were beautiful and sweet handling, but in the 1970’s bicycle-boom they lost ground to more popular lugged-frame construction, and never recovered. Schwinn never played it conservative with their ad budget, but their best sales… Continue reading Barnard’s Schwinn Cyclery Ltd