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Flooded rivers, within reason and without property damage, are cool. Rivers are cool to begin with, but when they go over their banks and st...

In October I walked into a bicycle and sandwich shop in Provincetown, almost as an afterthought before leaving town. It was a blustery day i...

Ice floes are awesome. They really elicit that feeling of it being the end of your life and you're being cast out to sea ( even if that&...

The motley crew as an uptight rent-a-cop was trying to kick us out of Constitution Plaza! Well, thanks to the cold and the earlier rain, we ...

Thanks to everyone who came by on Saturday to help clean up the river. Isn't it impressive how there was a break in the rain that lasted...

I've never lived anywhere other than Hartford County. I started in West Hartford, then lived in Avon and now I'm in Hartford. I supp...

Hey! Don't forget that we're going to be cleaning up stuff up on Saturday down at the confluence of the Park & Connecticut River...

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...

So, I have unilaterally decided that the beat bike blog is going to participate in the CT River Watershed Council's Source to Sea Cleanu...

So, the 5K at Keney was too hard to execute during the budget season, so it's been reimagined into a car-free day at Keney from 10 to 2 ...

The Connecticut River in Hartford is a subject in many of our posts, and we spend a lot of time down along the banks of the silty, sandy Con...

In case you were wondering if the Connecticut was still flooded, it is. It crested and is receding now. See? I suppose picture number 1 is t...

I heard about Quarry Park in a Courant article and somewhere else. This former hill, a rocky one, is where Rocky Hill got its name. The art...

Here is my last post involving snow and ice for many months, my apologies on its tardiness, I’m on island time now! Here I am on Krash’s ba...

The Eel is done. The weather was nasty and I'm guessing that scared off a number of competitors, despite that I thought we had a pretty ...

Don't confuse this with November 4, that's when you need to be voting. The Eel! November 8! 3pm! It's gonna be awesome! Maybe pr...

We rode through the Park Rd. parade on the way to the river and saw this sweet bus!! Brendan has already summed up our clean-up of the confl...