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It is with regret to write about the memorial services for Allan Williams whom i met through the CCBA and all the work he did for the organi...

I've got nothing profound to write about, but I went down to the Great Meadow and the rocky hill and took some pictures yesterday. Also,...

Chuck Schumer, a Senator from New York (for whom I have voted, though not recently, what with how I haven't lived there for a while) and...

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...

I received two texts from my friend Joel today. This is the first one: And, this is the second: "Made it!". Joel is on his way to ...

C.I.C.L.E. (Cyclists Inciting Change thru [sic]Live Exchange, which should really be C.I.C.T.L.E., but I can forgive them) is, by its own d...

We here at the Beat Bike Blog are always singing the praises of bike-riding, and one of the things we like to point out is that when you tra...

What's the reasonable length of life for a chainring? I don't know, but it's got to be longer than a year. None the less, this f...

Well, you have to win a contest to get it, but still, it requires only minimal effort: Some website called Inhabitat , which is "a webl...

Just over a year ago, some Waterbury miscreant having absconded with my Dahon folding bike after breaking into my (now deceased) Corolla, I ...

My mother, bless her heart, has a long tradition of sending me weird gifts. Not only does she never miss a birthday, Christmas, Hannukah, or...

I could have sworn that these meetings were already held last year or something, but this just arrived in my inbox: Don't miss the upcom...

Some of you readers maybe remember that our friend Dan Shoup rode from Michigan to Connecticut last year to come visit us. I guess MI-CT tr...

Our loyal reader will recall the Special Tour de France , an orange bicycle bequeathed to me by Chillwill upon his departure from Hartford t...

I just read this article in today's Times about a bizarre prison program in France that involves cycling. While the article doesn't...

Being as how la Casa Presidencial is a one-working-car-family since the untimely demise of my terrible, awful, no-good Ford Focus , when the...

I love going to meetings in north end because I get to cut through Keney Park and then return by the dump on the along river for the return ...

Well, not really. It just happens to be one of my favorite stories in Dubliners , along with "Eveline". As egos are an important p...

Pedaling positions and styles are controversial issues in cycling. I came across this interesting article the other day and it raised some...

I picked up this handy book on basic car and bike maintenance in Havana. It has lots of good tips and pictures. You can look at the whole th...

One of the things I noticed when I was in Cuba is that the people there ride their bikes slowly. Singlespeeds are prevalent, but even bikes ...

During the last week, your humble correspondent was absent from the blogosphere, having undertaken a humanitarian mission to the island nati...