[image: "Bicyclists' group on Minerva Terrace. [Lt. James A. Moss's company of 25th Infantry, U. S. Army Bicycle Corps, from Fort Missoula, Montana.] YNP." October 7, 1896.]
https://gearjunkie.com/25th-infantry-bicycle-corps > In June of 1897, the all-black company of the 25th Mobile Infantry <http://www.fortmissoulamuseum.org/blackbicyclecorps.php>, under command of a white lieutenant and accompanied by a medic and a journalist, embarked on a journey across America’s heartland — from Fort Missoula, Montana, to St. Louis, Missouri — to “test most thoroughly the bicycle as a means of transportation for troops.” Their trek would span 41 days and 1,900 miles and pit the men against sandhills, the Rocky Mountains, rain, snow, poison, and more. Decades before Dr. King had his famous dream, these men were sweating together, bleeding together, and biking together as a team on 55lb steel bikes http://www.oldbike.eu/museum/bikes-1800s/1897-2/1897-spalding-roadster/ And the Christy Anatomical Saddle (guaranteed not to chafe): [image: 1897 spalding] -- a Andy Bach, afb...@gmail.com 608 658-1890 cell 608 261-5738 wk
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