A chance conversation launched the Scanga family into the bicycle business — although 37 years later, that chance seems more like fate.

"My father was in the brokerage business," recalls Mike Scanga, owner of Bicycle X-Change. "He was on a plane talking to a guy. Somebody had backed out of a shipment of bikes. So my father made a deal, and we were in the bicycle business."

Dr. Edward N. Tihen read and took notes from nearly every issue of Wichita's newspapers dating from 1872 to 1982. Dr. Tihen's notes reflect the people, places and events that have shaped Wichita's history.

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.