classic bikes

an original 1885 ad for the Singer British ChallengeClassic Schwinn BicycleIn the heyday of highwheel bicycles, also known as “ordinaries” or “high bicycles,” the Coventry Machinists’ Company in Coventry, England, was one of the most-innovative and largest manufacturers in the world. It was this famous company once led by the engineering genius James Starley, inventor of tangential spoking (