From the Book - First Lyons Press paperback edition.
The birth of the modern bicycle
The Depression years: The rise of the balloon tire
World War II and the postwar boom
The fifties: The new heavyweight champions
The middleweight contenders
The faster sixties and seventies: The multispeed lightweights
Hitting the dirt: The leap to BMX and mountain bikes
Schwinn: The next generations
The history of Schwinn: A timeline