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If you haven't been paying attention, I'm on a bike tour and not at all in Hartford.  That said, I'm keeping an electronic toe i...

After gorging on walking and biking this weekend, I'm ready to go to bed early.  Late night dancing my arse off at a birthday party has ...

This Sunday, I'm organizing a very informal, free, and short bicycle ride in Hartford as part of the Sam Colt 200th birthday festival ( ...

Cycling and Hartford: Coda So where do we go from here? I don't know, because the big picture looks (note "looks" in ita...

Cadenza/coda to come tomorrow. Cycling and Hartford: Pt. IV: Build it and they will come? But they don't have to, of course....

More from Dario: For the love of the bicycle But before I explain what I mean by "And it gets worse", let's double bac...

Dario continues: Cycling and Hartford: Pt. II: Col. Pope and the Paradox of Progress Hartford. 1895. Albert Augustus Pope, a Civil Wa...

In a departure from the junk I usually write about cold feet, some slight by a faceless driver or comparisons of eggs and pedals we wil...

This past Sunday morning, with an inadequate night's sleep behind me and a pair of cargo bikes crowding the bed of a borrowed pickup (th...

I recently found myself in Willimantic for the first time, and had an opportunity to check out a couple of places that countless people have...