You've likely seen videos of people using fire to mount a tire on a car wheel, but that sort of thing is no longer necessary. What should you do at home?

My first bicycle was not, in fact, a bicycle. I rode it in 1968, when I was two years old and as tubby as a bear cub. It had four wheels, not two, and no pedals: strictly speaking, it was a scooter.

The National American Cycle Co. manufactured 20,000 bikes a year at its East Mill Street factory. Then the wheels came off.