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2016 is going to be a banner year for sustainable transportation in Hartford.  To kick off the year I am rolling out BiCi Co. news and prog...

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...

Today was the monthly Bike to Work event, and from what I hear, the only one scheduled for the year. Finding this hard to believe, I read ov...

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...

This past Tuesday evening found me in the grand environs of The Bushnell for the Bicycle Friendly Communities Symposium. The CCBA email I h...

Sometimes you don’t want to walk to the bar. Obviously (i hope) driving isn’t an option. I suppose for some reason you may choose not to rid...

I am starting to suspect that fast food and bicycles should not be mixed, though, most likely, the the problem is just the fast food! After ...

Any ride starting at 12:20am at the North Main Street entrance to Keney Park is pretty much expected to be interesting. I left Babaganush...

I am now living in the Conch Republic, better known as Key West. Yes, technically it is in Florida, but the vibe and architecture is certain...

Thanks to poorly timed rain last week, our first bike pub crawl was called off. So we're pushing off on Wednesday evening and marking t...

Karma's recent post along with his excellent photos of the new road markings in West Hartford got me wasting a perfectly good Monday ev...

I took this picture shortly after composing this post which discussed an incident in which a bicyclist was hit at the intersection of Boule...

Start friday morning with a ride to The Old State House for Bike to Work and enjoy a free breakfast of coffee, juice, bagels, bananas and o...

The beatbikeblog’s day by day, play by play calendar for a mad busy week of great events. Wow. Summer is in full MF’n effect! Lots going on,...

I missed the CCBA general meeting last night due to a work shift, but there is much going on the next few days...the next week actually! Che...

Ride of Silence. Lightening, thunder and downpours of cold rain didn’t deter nine riders from meeting in Elizabeth Park yesterday and riding...

CCBA Bike Everywhere Bike to Happy Hour. friday, may 16th I’m going to cut to the chase here, and give props ASAP to the core group that lau...