Tired of those hipsters tooling around town in their funny hats and their fashionable single-speed bikes? Maybe your great-great grandfather could sympathize. Because back when American bicycling ...

Guy who loved Big Wheels as kid now makes a knockoff for grown-ups He has sold 300 of the adult trikes for %24599.99 But the company that owns Big Wheel plans a %24400 adult version in 2014 Still miss ...

Wes Williams was right. In the late 1990s, the tiny custom-bike builder in Crested Butte, Colo., developed a cult following for his odd Willits mountain bikes with their weird, 29-inch wheels — 3 ...

Many people who grew up in the 1970s, '80s and '90s will likely remember cruising around the neighborhood on a Marx Big Wheel, a low-riding tricycle made of plastic. Now, a Big Wheel-style bike is ...

Way back in 1969, Pennsylvania toy manufacturer Louis Marx and Company invented the low-riding big wheel tricycle as a safer alternative to bikes and trikes for kids between the ages of eight and ten ...

Lloyd G. Bumstead II never got to meet the great grandfather he was named after, but there’s no doubt he inherited more than his name. The elder Bumstead, known as “LG,” died a month before his ...

Pottawattamie County Supervisor and bicycling enthusiast Lynn Leaders rides his big wheel bicycle in the Underwood Fourth of July parade. Leaders rode the entire 400-plus miles of RAGBRAI on the big ...