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its sooo nice outside! don't be a fool...ride a bike! Wednesday, May 14: Bike to Dinner Lena's at 5:30pm. 2053 Park Street, Hartfor...

A nasty thing has happened on the past two days on the way to work. Yesterday, I watched a woman vomit while crossing Marshall Street and to...

The Mark Twain House to the Spigot, a 25 mile ride? yep, if you do it Brendan's way via Avon's Rails to Trails! Check the ROUTE. Ou...

From San Fran - the bike capital of America, I post this treat: From Matt Smith's SF Weekly Piece about sharing the road : "What I ...

I know that this is something interests many of us: I'm invited to a meeting next Wednesday to discuss where the City is going to use it...

Critical Mass Movie Night at Alchemy/The Green Vibration The CCBA Bike Everywhere Program and Alchemy Present: Movie Night tonight at 7pm. ...

Ever been blown away by a track bike? My first ride on a track bike recently flipped my lid, kid. I'm going to mix some metaphors here,...

OK, so technically it was the Four-Borough Bike Tour for me, because I broke from Team Hartbeat and joined with Team Brooknam (me, Chris, an...

While we were busy getting sun burned in New York, look what Jack Hale, Knox Parks' executive director, wrote in the Courant: Courant....

The Beat was well rep’d this past weekend by a hardy group of current and former Hartford peoples converging in the rotten apple in what was...

As our three non-contributing readers know, this blog and the lives of its contributors are all about bikes bikes bikes. That means we like ...

It looks I'm the first one who gets to write about the 5boro thing that was yesterday. Here goes: On the whole, it was fun. I'd neve...