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The ride from Hartford to New Britain for the annual Bike Walk Connecticut dinner could have been worse. But, it could have been much easie...

Survey says that 73% of women who have a safety concern related to bicycling named "distracted driving" as the concern. In conver...

First off , cuz I gots a p-u-s-s-y you have to disregard all this. It clearly means that I am having a meltdown, and not that I'm a bad ...

It was the discussion of banana portaging that grabbed my attention while reading Bike Snob NYC yesterday, but the part of his post that ha...

While automobile accidents remain the #1 killer of les enfants , I am unaware of any progressive legislation that would ban minors from ridi...

Is it right to say that I missed the boat? Maybe if it's a hybrid boat-bicycle the idiom would make more sense. Really, I do not know h...

Preface: There were photographers with actual camera mounts for their madly expensive gear, so if you want to see "professional-looking...

There's an editorial in the Hartford Courant today about the 2008 Hartford Bike Tour that summed up the general feeling about the event...

Saturday turned out to be a beautiful day for a wonderful event here in Hartford. I have no idea what the turn-out was this year, but from a...