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Coming off the Independence Day holiday weekend I’m more pumped than ever about the good old USA, especially after reading about the Montague Paratrooper Folding Mountain Bike. The Paratrooper is a “24 speed mountain bike designed to endure any terrain at high speed in silence with no heat signature.” Damn straight. Of course military off-road …

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By now most of us have heard the lore surrounding the “first” mountain bikers riding Mount Tam north of San Francisco in the 1970s but it turns out bicycles were being ridden off road at least 75 years earlier. In 1896 the US Army formed an experimental regiment of bicycle mounted soldiers (“buffalo soldiers”) to …

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buffalo soldiers, Culture, history, military -

By now most of us have heard the lore surrounding the “first” mountain bikers riding Mount Tam north of San Francisco in the 1970s but it turns out bicycles were being ridden off road at least 75 years earlier. In 1896 the US Army formed an experimental regiment of bicycle mounted soldiers (“buffalo soldiers”) to …

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