Tom and Louise Sawyer started a bicycle and mower shop on Broadway and Mt. Vernon in 1963. In 1972 the bicycle industry grew so Tom and Louise built the current building and became a bicycle shop. In 1998 Tom and Louise retired and sold the bicycle shop to Alan Keimig who had worked for them since 1972.

In 1973, while on an airplane traveling home from a sales convention, Joseph Scanga Sr. began to talk to a gentleman in the seat next to him. This gentleman told Joe about a business transaction in which his buyer backed out of the deal. The deal was for a container of 320 high-end bicycles he had imported from overseas. Being the businessman that he was, Joe knew an opportunity when he saw it, at that moment he decided that his sons were going to be in the business of bicycles.

Michael, Joseph, and Ralph Scanga soon found themselves setting up a bike shop in a building that their father already owned. The brothers called their new business venture Import Bike LTD.

They soon changed the name of the shop to “Wheels” with their new slogan “Everybody should have wheels from Wheels,” and with that, they were off and running.

After a short time they began to take the trade-ins of older bikes to encourage people to purchase high-end new bicycles, so in 1979 just six years after they opened their doors they were again changing their businesses name, this time they called it The Bicycle X-Change Shop... as it remains to this day.