As if the Aprilia RSV Tuono wasn't already evil enough, Bulgarian leather customizers Vilner teamed up with fellow-countrymen bike maniacs Galaxy Custom in a daring endeavor to bring style and brawn ...

We first met 18-year-old Angel Viramontes the summer he graduated from high school. It was right around the same time that he had just completed a two-year build of his Sting-Ray bike—and this was no ...

It’s a story of 100 years of Americana, and really a rich story of 100 years of cycling as well,” said Daniel Clarke, the filmmaker responsible for the documentary.

For much of the 1960s and the early 1970s, no suburban streetscape would have been complete without them: A squadron of kids clutching sky-high handlebars on low-slung bikes in eye-popping, hot-rod ...

FLX Bike is an e-bike manufacturer we’ve talked about quite a bit on InsideEVs. The U.S.-based bike maker recently made headlines with its powerful and over-the-top Weapon X electric mountain bike.

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 ...

NEW YORK — Al Fritz created stylish roadsters yearned for by young hot-rodders in the 1960s and '70s. But his rolled on two wheels, not four. Mr. Fritz, who died May 7 at age 88 in Barrington, Ill., ...

Four decades ago, the coolest transportation on two wheels was the Schwinn Sting-Ray bike. Introduced in 1963 during the muscle-car craze, the pop-culture icon with its distinctive “banana seat” was ...

Mike Rangel from Sacramento, CA., has always been into Lowriders. His fascination runs deep, and he credits his father, Roy Rangel, as being the person who got him hooked on the culture. Roy owned an ...

If you were around in the 1960s or 1970s, you knew a kid — or you were a kid — who rode only one kind of bicycle. It had ape-hanger handlebars, a banana seat and could pop a wheelie. Since Schwinn ...