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That's what she said! Sorry. Our blog is usually lacking in terrible humor (always lacking in good humor). Anyway, I took the f...

The automobile, a tool invented to safely transport people with all its crumple zones, airbags, seat belts, safety glass, computers and vari...

Remember those old home security commercials featuring a "burglar" who brags that he can pick most locks with a credit card? No to...

I like my Mondays oppositional. Read this and feel the same way.

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...

The bike rack in the parking lot at the corner of Ann and Pearl Streets was a nice, albeit poorly installed, one. The "Wave" or ...

For some reason, the New York Times has jumped on the anti-bike lane and "cyclists break traffic rules all the time" bandwagon tha...

It's not enough that you had to go tearing across traffic and then the wrong way on a one-way street. I was willing to overlook that, ig...

If I had not read recent blog posts here on Beat Bike Blog or at CT Confidential by Rick Green , I would have had no idea there was any c...

If you read the Courant, check out Rick Green's column today . It takes a much dimmer view than the positive rumors I've been hearin...

It's a beautiful day today; happy Valentine's Day! Yesterday, Salem and I rode up to Congamond to spectate the NEMBA ice race thingy...

The subtitle of our blog is "Riding bicycles in Hartford". We talk about it less and less because, well, we've got a lot of po...

So, I went on and on about the D2R2 for a long time and on Saturday I got up at 4:30 to drive up with my old Stumpjumper to Deerfield and pa...

So, that race in Massachusetts happened yesterday. As promised, Brendan raced Cat 2. Brendan's bike, however, had no desire to do that. ...

On Sunday, I took a mostly bad mountain bike ride. It rained for most of the time and was super muddy even at the beginning of the ride befo...

Once, awhile ago, I was supposed to see Belle & Sebastian in Northampton with this friend of mine. We bought tickets about a month in ad...

We, as bike people, are supposed to get mad about this. Michigan State may have beaten my alma mater at men's basketball, but it appears...

this is funny...but sad. encouraging or dissappointing?