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I've had a cold this week. It's a been a particularly nasty one and it might be a flu, but I'm really hoping that it's not. ...

Well, I guess all those disparaging remarks Bill O'Reilly recently made about Greenwich Village are grounded in cold hard data: A study...

Following up on Ben's ice-biking post, I will share with you, dear readers, an important lesson I learned today whilst riding from Bridg...

From http://www.genderanalyzer.com/ : We guess http://beatbikeblog.blogspot.com is written by a man (50%), however it's quite gender neu...

Two CCBA admin notes first: 1. Tomorrow's board meeting has been cancelled 2. No Ice Bike To Work this month. Day after T-Day! So, as I...

Bullseye! I picked up this happy little fellow in my front tire about a half mile from the office this morning. The wheel held its air to g...

Thank you all who attended the Bike Everywhere meeting last night at Lenas. Lots of good discussion and ideas for next year. Just to give ...

Thanks to poorly timed rain last week, our first bike pub crawl was called off. So we're pushing off on Wednesday evening and marking t...

So after reading this article in the New York Times, bastion of the untrustworthy liberal media elite , and was wondering if bike-sharing ...

The Eel is done. The weather was nasty and I'm guessing that scared off a number of competitors, despite that I thought we had a pretty ...

Guess what's today? The Eel is today! Here's the cue sheet: CUE SHEET (sorry, no mileage) -start at Gazebo -ride north through parki...

In anticipation of The Eel , I have lately been trying to take as many opportunities as possible to go on longer rides. I usually do this in...

Argh! She's at it once more . This time: How could the Lincoln Memorial — “With malice toward none; with charity for all” — be as moving...

Late Notice: Just like Guy Fawkes, our plot has been foiled. The forecast for tonight has gotten worse. Now we're looking at a 90% cha...

The election yesterday was pretty good. My main concern yesterday, obviously, was Urania Petit for Hartford Registrar of Voters. It ended w...

Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I see no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot...

Right about now, everyone (your humble Presidente included) seems quite preoccupied with the results of today's voting. All around Conne...

Im note going to belabor the point nor am I going to argue the benefits. If you bike you are probably smarter than the average American cit...

Brendan was foolish enough to authorize my ability to be a contributor to the beat and I will take advantage of his trusting nature for the ...

As gas prices climbed and climbed over the summer, we bike- and alternative-transportation-advocates crowed merrily that these times they ...

This blog, as all six of our readers know, is about the bicycles, and also about Hartford and environs. But one of the main reasons we ride ...

I moved to Fairfield Ave and slept there for the first time last night. Thus, this morning I had my first new commute . Yt's pretty much...

Strange as it is to believe, there are other cities where bicycle riding is so common, so beloved by the populace, that government is oblig...

Do you ever look at the photo at the top of this blog and wonder, "Who are those Reservoir Dogs-looking, bike-riding badasses, and wher...

In my youth, I was unapologetically nocturnal, which predilection was well accommodated for some time by my job waiting tables. My usual rou...

Looks like fun, huh? I don't have any pictures of the run up. I bought a used Raleigh cyclocross bike off of ebay a few months ago to he...

Yes, my friends , it's that time again: suddenly, it's chilly outside all the time and my tender knuckles and delicate fingertips ne...

Alright...so we messed up in joining the Hooker Day Parade on Sunday. We had a plan, we had a theme idea . I was in Vegas, Joel found him...

I've just blown an hour at bicycletutor.com . There are a lot of good tips and tricks in videos, transcripts, and discussions here. Fo...

(Photos Courtesy of Tim Cope: http://www.timcopejourneys.com/ ) Off The Rails , by Time Cope and Chris Flannery, is the true story of two bo...

A lot of you know that I'm originally from Western/Central NY State. Buffalo, despite being the butt of many a joke is the city that I...

Monday evening, I got out of work a little after 6 pm and was riding my usual route on Tolland St. in East Hartford. I was thinking about h...

This a funny, cryptic sign I saw in a deli window in New Haven. It has nothing to do with Hartford or bikes, but it is amusing (and I do rid...

Something I often bemoan is the lack of a gritty, old-parts-bin-having, evil-genius-mechanic-employing, old school bike shop in the Hartford...

So, upon the departure of our dear Chillwill, who has repaired to the welcoming climes of Northern California to work in the agricultural se...

Before Sunday, I had never heard of Broad Brook , let alone ridden my bicycle there. But thanks to Rich's strong desire for Grandpa Tony...

Don't confuse this with November 4, that's when you need to be voting. The Eel! November 8! 3pm! It's gonna be awesome! Maybe pr...

Karma's recent post along with his excellent photos of the new road markings in West Hartford got me wasting a perfectly good Monday ev...