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It has been a while since we've gone downtown for Bikes Outside, so this morning finds us a stone's throw from the northeast corner ...

This Independence Day edition Bikes Outside brings us to the Firebox Restaurant at Billings Forge in NoFroHo. Huffy is an unmistakably Ame...

Recently, a friend asked me if I could take a look at an old bike she had. It had been sitting neglected for a long time before she got it a...

This morning brings us a bumper crop of bikes outside at this past Thursday evening's Creative Cocktail Hour . I spotted some familiar b...

This Monday's bike outside was spotted downtown on Pratt Street. I was enjoying a Sunday morning coffee at Jojo's when someone in ou...

This past weekend was a great one for Bikes Outside. Nothing short of the last Discover Hartford Tour put as many bikes on the street as t...

This Monday, Bikes Outside takes us to the military section of Zion Hill Cemetery in Frog Hollow. Far from complete, today's "bike&...

This morning finds the roving Bikes Outside eye between the State Armory and the Legislative office building. While these structures are bes...

I have been back in Hartford for less than one day as I type this, having spent the past three weeks taking classes at United Bicycle Instit...

If you don't lock it up, everyone's gonna take it for a ride. This Schwinn was left, apparently unlocked, in the randomly asphalted ...

This morning 's bike outside is a Breezer seen locked up outside of the Legislative Office Building on Capitol Ave. While this step-thro...

This Monday's bike outside brings us to the Center for Urban and Global Studies on the Trinity College campus. This setting is the epito...

Bikes Outside brings us back to the Hartford Public Library this morning for a Giant Rincon-turned-commuter special. A mountain bike with sm...

This Monday's bike outside was spotted outside of El Mercado on Park Street. This folding Fuji looks for all the world like it was bent ...

This Monday's Bikes Outside takes us back nearly a week to Elizabeth Park's Pond House for last Tuesday's annual CCBA dinner. T...