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All zero of you readers probably thought that (a) the eel didn't happen or (b) I never came back. Well, I'm here to tell you that ...

Remember The Eel? I've thrown like sixty or five of them, but now I'm bringing back. Bringing it back to the level putting it on ...

Regrettably, too much has got in the way of organizing the ride, so I'm going to push it back again to a date uncertain. No big dea...

Hello! I have decided to postpone the proposed Eel by a week. There are some people who can't do it the day I picked and I have a p...

Studying for the bar exam has cut into the amount of time I allocated to do fun stuff. While writing beat bike blog posts doesn't really...

 Photo credit: Daniel As someone once said, The Eel is a ride of attrition. From its humble beginnings, as a wet race in origina...

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...

First of all, I want to thank the participants of the river cleanup this year. Lots of Trinity students + Joe, Greg and Rich. We cleane...

As a visionary thinker, I like to start off my day with really good ideas. My first good idea was I should start a hip hop news site. Th...

I rode down to New Haven yesterday to get some lunch. I was split between pizza and Mexican food, but the view from the Mexican food is b...

The Eel has not been competitive in awhile. That's ok and all, but I think it should return to its speedy roots. The first was no d...

Brendan left out this priceless photo of Ken K riding hands free and cheesing it up on our early hour on the Eel .  We both dropped early f...

Thus far, The Eel has never gone west of Prospect Ave in Hartford. Today, things got real and went to the New Hartford. Have you been ...

Seems like the BeatBikeBlog only gets a quarter of the page hits in the winter.  What's up with that you fickle nancies?  Perhaps we wri...

It's been awhile, huh? Let's ride another Eel this Saturday. Meeting 10am on the rocks at Hyland Park in Hartford . A 'cr...

As you may recall, I do The Eel. Well, now you have to watch and read this . And another thing, when should we do another eel?

Despite the terrible snow storm yesterday, six intrepid men with facial hair, five with old mountain bikes, four who have at one time w...

You may have heard that it is going to snow tomorrow. That will make the ride more fun. 10am Hyland Park on Fairfield Ave. Email me i...

Ok ok. I think the world is passable enough so that we can do that thing we were going to do a long time ago. This time, the ride will al...

I had this idea that limbs in the woods not would fall down as much as the trees and limbs in yards and along roadways. In the woods, they&#...