As told by former Schwinn employee Rich Adams:
I remember sitting in front of the gigantic CRT monitor (no flat screens back then) in 1994 with the task of designing BMX and Freestyle frames. I was given no guidelines.. no guardrails - only some geometry specs from Pippin and the goal of making a cool BMX bike. Naturally, I pulled heavily from the things we did on the Homegrowns... and some new ideas came about as well: like the extruded chainstay yoke... which at the time was pretty revolutionary. From that extruded chainstay yoke came the inspiration for the seatstay yoke - first debuted on the BMX frames, but later finding their way onto the 2000 Homegrown hardtails as the "Ram Air Seatstay".
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