Black Bart Cycle Union

11/13/2022

[$100]
These are Vintage Bmx, 1980s CW Expert handlebars in original white with scrapes and chips. Made in USA! Good survivor condition; perfect for repainting and any 1980s Bmx build!
Knurling is great condition, no dents. No burs inside bar ends and matches length and rise with standard expert CWs.
Cleaned of dirt and 95% rust.
Great condition for its age.
Width: 25"
Rise: 8"
OD: 0.88"

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11/13/2022

Subrosa Salvador from 2011 that can be an excellent build!
Frame only has light scuffing on original stickers.
TT Length: 20.5"
Minor paint scraped off on one rear dropout.
Brake tabs and mounts are great, cable looks good.
Fork & BB Bearings are great! All parts in images included.

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11/13/2022

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[$110]
Hella Rad 1994 GT Frame, I believe it’s an Interceptor.
Only very minimal rust, Zero Cracks and no dents throughout!
TT Length: 18.5"

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11/13/2022

[$60]
Fit Flow Trail. Has 2 dents: One on the Downtube and other seat tube near BB, visible in last pic.
TT Length: 21.0"

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11/13/2022

[$15]
2001 GT Jamie Bestwick Pro handlebars. These are Great condition Knurling is great, only few minor paint scrapes.

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04/29/2022

Hell Ya

02/25/2022

This week we are looking at the 25th Infantry Regiment in Montana. The "Bicycle Corps" experimented with bicycles for the military in 1896-1897. Their bikes were heavy, and they packed weapons and gear - the total weighed almost 80 pounds! Here we see them crossing a river, carrying those heavy bikes and gear. https://buff.ly/33vHz0U

01/21/2022

"An often-traversed trail connected the Lol-sel principle village Ali'matinbe (Approx., Rose Canyon) with the principle village of Shigom (Lucerne),
and another trail connected the Ol'po-sel principle village of Tlotli and the Tebti-sel principle village of Tebti with the principle villages of Elem and Koi.. Some of that differential ease of access to Clear Lake that the Lol-sel, the Tebti-sel, and the Ol'pol-sel had compared with that of the Yawi-sel can be seen in cultural patterns such as burial practices.".

01/20/2022

"The first bicycle, called a “pedal velocipede,” was patented in 1866, and its heavy wood-spoked wheels were no match for America’s rough roadways. By the late 1870s, though, builders had started making wheels with lightweight wire spokes under tension. This technique, still seen in modern bicycle wheels, allowed makers to enlarge the front driving wheel so that the bike would go farther with each crank of the pedals.

Bikes took on the penny-farthing silhouette: a chest-high front wheel and a knee-high rear wheel. This design made cycles faster and more roadworthy, since the tall wheels’ gentle arcs rolled right over smaller holes in the road.

As soon as American cyclists began riding high-wheelers outdoors, they began kvetching about the roadways. “The majority [of Americans] do not know what a good road is,” wrote one rider in 1882, “and their horses—who do know and could explain the differences in roads—are debarred from speaking.”

Cyclists, however, could speak— and organize. Since high-wheel bicycles cost many times the average tradesman’s weekly wages, they were affordable only to the well-to-do, and the first bicycle clubs were upper-crust fraternities for racing and socializing.

The groups quickly developed a political agenda, as cyclists had to fight for the right to ride. Police routinely stopped riders and shooed them off city streets, inspiring cyclists to join together and press for access to public thoroughfares. A national coalition of clubs called the League of American Wheelmen (LAW) came to lead these efforts."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/american-drivers-thank-bicyclists-180960399/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR3HnAJwvLgIo99uxygzeVEvpAOctcZxkIjQ9JGW1013YqZMm-i7Js5eLus

Urban elites with a fancy hobby teamed up with rural farmers in a movement that transformed the nation

11/28/2021

11/12/2021

"In 1861 the Civil War broke out and in 1862 Charley volunteered to join the Union Army. He enlisted for three years with the 116th Regiment of the Illinois Infantry on August 13th, 1862 at Decatur. On July 1, 1863 Charley was promoted to a First Sergeant in Company B and twice had the opportunity of becoming a Lieutenant. On May 26, 1864 at Dallas, Georgia, he received a severe wound in the right side/abdominal region. Considering the conditions of the wound, it is remarkable that he survived. After his recovery Charley returned to his unit and fought in the battle of Atlanta. Charley served honorably as a soldier during the war and was mustered out as a First Sergeant on June 7, 1865.

After the war Charley returned home and started farming again, but farming was not to his liking and he became restless. After all the time in the army and living in the open air, along with memories of the goldfields, Charley decided he could make more money mining than farming. With his wife's permission he left his family to look for gold. Charley went to Montana and located a small mine1 that he worked with a miner named Henry Roberts2 from Missouri.. A steady stream of water was the key to the operation. One day several men tried to buy Charley out, but he refused believing that he was better off keeping the mine. That decision was significant to Charley. The men who had approached him were connected to Wells Fargo and they wanted the land the mine was on. They cut off Charley's supply of water and he was forced to abandon the mine. Charley was very angry and he wrote about it in letters home. In one letter he said "I am going to take steps," but never said what steps. It seems according to his own letters it was the forced abandonment of his mine that made Charles Boles turn on Wells Fargo and make them his target."

The Legend of Black Bart, a collection of information on the infamous Wells Fargo stage coach robber during California's gold rush days.