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In Bro'd Rage Part I , I left off with my trip to Hartford Police Department HQ to file a report. I later sat down and wrote a detailed ...

The Trinity Admissions Gate: area of my initial encounter with the wrong-way driver. Last Friday morning, I was commuting to my job at...

  Broad and Farmington today   The Broad Street Problem   Broad Street looking northward Broad Street has a well-earned reputatio...

I needed a washboard, so I bought one online. I figured no one sells them and I'd get a better deal if I bought it online. Ace has fr...

With all the snow around Hartford, the bike sightings have been down a bit of late. I was out of town most of the past week, so that didn...

It's been a little while since the Bikes Outside lens has been aimed at the corner of Capitol and Babcock, so it was high time we paid a...

It's not enough that you had to go tearing across traffic and then the wrong way on a one-way street. I was willing to overlook that, ig...

Artist Ted Efremoff and company's Bread Cycle Works Project began this past march in a vacant lot on Broad Street . Join them this Satu...

Fans of Shakespeare, when they aren't dropping clever bardian quips that sail over my head, dream of someday making a pilgrimage to the ...

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

Preface: There were photographers with actual camera mounts for their madly expensive gear, so if you want to see "professional-looking...

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 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 ...