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I didn't use one of these to move furniture. Would people have respected me more if I did?

I didn't get to ride much this weekend because Johanna and I are moving. In fact, I think the longest ride all weekend was either to the uhaul place to pick up the van or to my friend Jacob's house to play ping pong.


However, I just discovered this: http://mtbdee.blogspot.com/. It belongs to a mountain biker in Rhode Island named Brendan. Finding that was weird, but not that weird. He's into the Drop Kick Murphies and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. I'm not into them. Cool blog, though. What was weird was the time a Brendan, with the same last name as me and the same age, was prank calling the Ned Lamont office I ran in West Hartford. That was totally bizarre. I thought he was going to try to kill me, but according to the police he just wanted an absentee ballot.

Here's that oft-viewed Street Films thing about moving by bike. Read more!

Long weekend at the beach!

I established a sweet homestead last weekend at the beach for four days and nights and had a wonderful procession of friends drop by for a night or two or just a few hours. We biked to beaches, paddled to secluded beaches, paddled at night and ate like royalty thanks to Joel and Kristen who really hooked it up! I also took hardly any photos, but did spend some time pedaling around Mystic on my way home Monday afternoon and took this:


I always really liked this pub, but its been a few years and i didn't remember the bikes and the sign. very funny. I reakon the bikes would be a great bike rack too! well done!


My hand was still healing with stitches and it wasn't supposed to get wet; which as you might imagine, is a bit of a problem when spending time at the beach! I used a plastic glove and lots of tape the first few days and later went rawdog and just patted it dry when splashed. no worries! but no swimming either :(

more after the break, but its not bicycle related. well yeah, maybe it is! a chunk of wood in the fire was brought home on my bicycle returning fron the beach. i had to ride bow-legged as the log was like 8 feet long and bungied to my crate, extending along my top-tube infront of the bike as well sticking out the back for several feet!

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We should have a blog tag for Joel and his meat. that dude is always doing great things with steak!


Marisa spotted this buoy floating and we all watched it for like an hour until it got close enough to shore for me to grab. The whole thing came alive after being out of the water for a few minutes. If all of southern Rhode Island is wiped out from some creatures from the deep...its all my fault...sorry y'all!

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Hartford Hardcore reppin' in Rhode Island

Wow. Blue Shutters Beach is a long ride from Hartford! But a super short ride from Burlingame Campground...which makes me happy! really happy!

Anyways, I was camped out down there a few weekends ago and noticed the sticker and snapped a shot. I met a bunch of those guys one night whilst leaving Mad Dawgs post crit-mass feeling quite influenced. Hope to see y'all around and about again. Read more!