Wright Cycle Company

The Wright Cycle Company, originally the Wright Cycle Exchange, was the bicycle business of the Wright brothers and successively occupied six different locations in Dayton, Ohio. Orville and Wilbur Wright began their bicycle repair, rental and sales business in 1892 while continuing to run a print shop, and these shops helped fund their aeronautical studies. In 1896 they began manufacturing and selling bicycles of their own design, the Van Cleve and the St. Clair, and they invented a self-oiling hub. The business is the origin of the workshop in which the Wright Flyer was built.