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Le Grand Depart. The farm roads out to Ellington were gorgeous this early in the AM. People at this Whole Foods in NH were reall...

This weekend will mark my official return to randonneuring , the relatively non-competitive style of long distance cycling that has been aro...

A guest post from Dario about the D2R2, because I wasn't there to see how it was: The ride couldn't have begun better. Sandy Whi...

I know that votes were tallied and it said I was supposed to go ride the D2R2 again this year despite my dithering. However, I'm too...

D2R2 is coming up again. Should I ride it? I can't decide. I haven't been paying to ride things so far this year. I haven'...

That stands for Post-Traumatic Detour Disorder, but I kid. The route of this year's De Tour de Connecticut was the same pleasant ro...

That was my terrible attempt at an April Fool's joke. Even to the eight people who would get that joke, it's not even funny. ...

As the New England cycling blogosphere is no doubt atwitter, D2R2 was yesterday. As you probably want to know, my gearing was (463:2973...

No one has written to the beat bike blog asking for advice about riding. Ever. It's not surprising, considering I don't really ha...