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View keney stuff in a larger map On Saturday, my job impelled me to chill in Keney Park , which is fine because I love chillin in Keney Par...

So, the 5K at Keney was too hard to execute during the budget season, so it's been reimagined into a car-free day at Keney from 10 to 2 ...

On Friday, I rode half of the metacomet epic and met a turtle.

I'm not going to lie: I don't like ATVs. As a mountain biker and periodic hiker, I don't see the need for a engine to get throug...

The Connecticut River in Hartford is a subject in many of our posts, and we spend a lot of time down along the banks of the silty, sandy Con...

Because sometimes we have to reflect on the sad things, tonight is the Ride of Silence . We're meeting at the Elizabeth Park Pond House ...

Rich, chocolaty, home-made cupcakes. Placing them on the front rack makes you ride faster to try to catch up to them.

Oh. My. God. I have found the next hot thing, or at least the next thing that I really really want. Awesomeness, thy name is Trikezilla : Ad...

As the images above show, there is a correlation between the decline in the quality of train travel in America and the decline is sartorial ...

"Cell Phone Exchange," by Flickr user Thomas Hawk . Some rights reserved . A long while ago, I had the idea that we could get more...

Every blog post deserves a picture, even if it's not so germane to the content of the post. As I often report in this space, I live a mu...

There's a rally today at the Capitol for bikes (don't know about the riders) from 12:15 to 1:15. It's in support of SB 735, an ...

In the post below this one, Brendan asks whether planned, suburban, German-engineered carlessness is everything its cracked up to be. (I kno...

So, this is the type of article we're supposed to be really excited about. What do you think? Is car-free bliss? Does it have to be thi...

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...

Pull Up the People is an online radio show with accompanying playlists. I found them when they linked to me (for what I don't know). But...

From the BeatBikeBlog's behind the scenes department of marketing and public relations: As Brendan mentioned, your humble beatbikeblog h...

The league of american cyclists bike week is next week (May 11-15) and there is a ton of stuff going on in and around the beat, check out th...

seems like this could be an annual post for the beat. three of us headed down from hartford this weekend to new york for the bike new york ...

I just got back from a pleasant, though sort of wet, ride To see if I had missed any important news while I was gone, I went to courant.com ...

Dear internet, I have a question. On the road, tire pressure is easy. It says on the side of the tire what you pressure you need. Off the ro...

Mt. Hartford, or the Hartford Landfill, is generally regarded as one of Hartford's terrible detractors. Residents in North Hartford have...

This guy is pretty cool. Perhaps we can put people back to work manually sweeping the streets. Should would reduce carbon emissions. So af...

I had a meeting at the Park House by Keney Park this morning. I was returning to work and saw a big group of bicycle riders behind the libra...

Your intrepid and wool-clad Cat 3 racer went back into the woods last weekend at Winding Trails in Farmington and came out with not just soc...

I rode north toward home this evening, with all the April heat from the pavement and the smells of urban trees in bloom. Bradford Pears, a ...

As is customary, CM went down on Friday. A solid 13 riders were in the mix, and we set out from the carousel in Bushnell Park at around 6:15...