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I tend to fall in routines. I eat at a lot of different restaurants, but I almost always order the same thing at each respective place. The ...

Turnout for the October Critical Mass ride was light compared to last year, but we still had a decent-sized group ready to go at Bushnell Pa...

Hartford is cooler than Seattle any day of the week.

Tomorrow evening, join us for the Halloween edition of Hartford's monthly Critical Mass ride. Meet up in Bushnell Park at the Carousel ...

With the help of digital photography and insomnia, I present to you a few of my pictures from Sunday's race. First of all, mad props to ...

I've got a couple of pictures now. I've also got some by Luis Cotto on picasa . CCBA has them on facebook . Here are some taken by C...

two posts in a day, kickass!!!!! brendan rocked it with the cross race and it looks like it will be a feature in the future as well with the...

Hartford's motto is post nubila phoebus , which means "after the clouds, sun". I suppose that's true pretty much everywher...

In addition to my new kitty, Alina, something has been keeping me awake: Sunday's 'cross race. You may recall Eel 1 , when people sh...

Johanna and I got a new kitty, who's about eight weeks old. She's a Russian Blue and much cuter than a bike. I'm thinking that I...

The weather is turning nasty and yesterday I got a really wet butt riding home. This was unacceptable. I've been trying to wrestle the b...

So, I saw this video of a downhill event in the slums of Rio. The course looks cool, but I'm wondering if any of these residents were as...

So, in middle of an epic ride (kidding) my shifter broke on my Stumpjumper. It answered the question what the rattling was in the shifter/b...

>I don't want to get shot this weekend. Once again, I'm returning to Vermont. I don't usually go during hunting season. VMBA ...

Art and I went over to Riverside Park last night for some kibitzing about the course. I think we successfully incorporated both of our ideas...

Thanks to everyone who came by on Saturday to help clean up the river. Isn't it impressive how there was a break in the rain that lasted...