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Cross racing.  Have you seen it?  Not a horde of queens sprinting in heels , although that would be equally awesome.  Cyclocross is a newer ...

I'm squatting.  On this hashtag - #HartfordCyclocross.  Look.  There it is on Beat Bike Blog.  First.  Nobody can Columbus that.  Except...

First - a big deal announcement.  Hartford is a finalist city for the Cyclocross Nationals in 2017 or 2018 .  There are four finalist cities...

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 ...

The next two weekends in Hartford are not to be missed if you are a bicycling enthusiast, or just enjoy sporting events in general.  This Su...

A veritable fire storm of bicycle events in September.  Toss some logs on would ya? I've been off the radar lately, largely due to m...

I like to think I'm a tough guy and that I'm a fairly in shape one, too. I'm not so sure. At the Hartford 'cross race l...

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

Cyclocross race in Colt Park this Saturday, November 9th.   Only $25.  Race local, save gas, build the sport. I found the poster.  You sh...

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...

Remember when some people and me put together a ' cross race at riverside par k? It was pretty awesome, but a ton of work. Since I'm...

*** Updated 4/23 with Burnside Ave info session details. *** Ha!  Didn't think you'd read a post with such a purposefully confusin...

It's another one of those transitional periods when I start to neglect the beat bike blog. Sorry, beat bike blog. Limed fields in t...

Many are opposed and many are for disc brakes on 'cross bikes. I've ridden a 29er with discs, so I'm assuming it's the s...

Go Stybar!

My torts professors, Prof. Chill, had advice for exams, which I have next week. Actually, it's Sunday, so now it's this week. His ad...

I still have no idea why I got involved in this, but I'm nearing the final throes of my first semester of law school. The New York Ti...

I am not very good at racing the bicycles. Part of the reason for that is because I've never really done this training thing people hav...

I doubt that anyone reads this blog closely enough to recall my last foray up Mt. Hor . Willoughby State Forest is a big old state forest ne...

I've played with the idea for a little while and I think I want to go through with it. It'd be a two hour race made out of Goodwin P...