As you may notice, blackbird has been pared down, quite a bit. Why? Simply put, because I simply no longer have the time or focus to go on gathering and formatting information about every little scrap of bike-geekery I get a momentary hankering for - so I trimmed this site down to the bare essentials that I can really devote some time to keeping up and improving. Don't you worry, though, all the old archives are still here, in storage. For the moment, there's not a whole lot different in actual content - I still haven't updated anything in ages - but it's on the way, I promise.
er... well... soon. really!
| bay city wheelmen (update 01 Feb 2010) |
information pertaining to this early San Francisco cycling club. |
| courier racing in paris 1895-1960s (update 18 Oct 2009) |
summary of my research into the critérium des porteurs de journaux and championnat des triporteurs. |
| pre-war cyclocross in pictures (update 22 Sep 2007) |
a ~weekly pseudo-photoblog on early cyclocross, covering the years from the turn of the century up through the end of the 1930s. |
| jack taylor cycles (update 03 Jun 2007) |
serial # registry, photos and history of the work of this longtime british framebuilding trio of brothers |
| specialites t.a. (update 08 Apr 2006) |
french manufacturer of cranks, chainrings, bottle cages, pedals, etc |
| morgan & wright (update 07 Jan 2005) |
a listing of products (and my collection of ephemera from) this early american bicycle tire manufacturer. |
| joel's rando/touring pages (update 05 Jun 2008) |
home of my diaries from various brevets and randonées, including PBP in 2003 and 2007 |
| chainwheel sleeve (update 12 Sep 2009) |
a tattoo idea ive had in my head for a while, finally starting to come together... |