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Having trouble with a clever title for this post, I reached back a couple of years and shared my favorite "pedestrian shout out."....

East Hartford will do pretty much anything to lure developers and tax money into town.  There are plans for outlet malls in the old airfiel...

Hey y'all.  Wanted to share the following, since you're starting to think about bikes again.  The Spring Bike Frenzy is a seasonal d...

Tired of the snow?  It's almost gone! First, I'd like to remind folks that Spring is coming, and with Spring I expect that the t...

Winter is Connecticut has arrived.  That said, so what?  It happens every year and doesn't take that much ingenuity and gusto to figure...

Don't put your bikes away yet.  Ride them all year long.  It's just a question of appropriate outerwear and lights.  It blows my min...

Ride to the Bike Walk CT Dinner Meetup in Hartford - Bike Ride to CCSU Monday, November 24th Leaving 4:45PM from DEEP near Bushnell P...

East Hartford Bike to Work. Many of these folks cycled over from West Hartford. Living in Connecticut and riding a bicycle for 90% of my...

Bike to Work.  Bicycle skills.  Dinner and Bikes.  The next couple of weeks brings a critical mass of bicycle based activity and I'll be...

Mark Twain knew how to stir up his audience Has anyone heard about the Earth Day event going on at Hartford's Riverfront Plaza next...

The Hockanum Trail is still a bit wet. This past weekend was an explosion of cyclists getting back out on the road after a long winter ...

There in fact was a cyclocross race in Colt Park this past Saturday.  Supposedly there is another cross race in Cheshire this weekend , and...

A couple of weeks ago Brendan made the national news cycle when he went through the hoops associated with the Affordable Care Act, tweeted ...

Brendan put on a great Eel and there was much bike diversity and trail diversity.  Only at an Eel will there be a Huffy  and a  Peter Moone...

This past weekend was a veritable orgy of bicycle events , with a heavy dose of walkable community .  Then this week while wandering by the ...

Had the opportunity to chat with Colin McEnroe on Thursday afternoon .  Oddly they decided the conversation was interesting enough that it...

*** Fun Fact:  My previous title for this post resulted in the suspension of our Twitter feed.  I guess they thought I was a spam porn bot. ...