00:00Ignaz always treated his factory workers well, he paid them well, but he had very high standards
00:05and demanded top quality in his bikes, and that's what he became known for.
00:11By the time Ignaz was 38 years old, he had a big house, one of those new automobiles
00:17only the upper class could afford, two daughters and a son.
00:21The safety bike had changed his life, and in fact, changed the entire world.
00:29Chicago was evolving from a city of horses and foot traffic into the epicenter of America's
00:35bike building.
00:37Chicago was producing two-thirds of all the bikes in the United States.
00:41Ignaz won a lucrative contract making bikes for mail-order giants Sears and Roebuck and
00:47had to move to a much larger factory.
00:50At the turn of the century, when only the well-to-do could afford an automobile, everything was
00:56spicy.
