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This Monday's bike outside was spotted outside of El Mercado on Park Street. This folding Fuji looks for all the world like it was bent ...

Nature's fury is too much for Johanna and me, so we're retreating on foot to higher ground for the next few days. I experienced the ...

Flooded rivers, within reason and without property damage, are cool. Rivers are cool to begin with, but when they go over their banks and st...

This Monday's Bikes Outside takes us back nearly a week to Elizabeth Park's Pond House for last Tuesday's annual CCBA dinner. T...

The Bread Cycle Works project will be having their inaugural event tomorrow, Saturday, March 27 (rain date Sunday, 3/28) from 10:00 AM to 3:...

I've been given the singular honor of being featured in Joe, Joel and Nick's monthly Catalogue show. Come check it out (and tell me...

I don't what it is this, but starting late last summer and into this year, I've started finding all sorts of new singletrack. Maybe ...

This morning brings the bike-spotting lense back to La Paloma Sabanera for another Bikes Outside two-fer-one special. Standing proud at the...

We're not on bicycles in droves because we're afraid we will muss our hair or get raped in a dark alley. I don't really believe ...

First off, I want to thank Ms. Longstocking for bringing such controversy to our blog. We love it! The East Coast Greenway is a big deal, ev...

As two of my friends' wives have said, I'm going walk-about. But alas, I'm not cool enough to do it on a bike, at least not yet...

Outsourcing does not work. Not too long ago I was riding in a vehicle with someone who had a GPS -- a device I considered worthless before t...

In honor of the Irish portion of my ancestry, I wanted to share with you some pics of Raleigh's Irish X-Frame model bikes. Available in ...

Thank you Lance Armstrong. Since I'm a dork, I have an alert setup with nytimes.com to send me articles tagged with "bicycles"...

I love daylight savings time a lot. It's shame that today was so dreary and overcast, because it'd still be nice and light outside. ...

This Monday's Bike Outside was in good company among a handful of rides locked up at the Hartford Public Library on Friday afternoon. Wh...

UPDATE! So, I came home and Johanna told me that this post was kind of mean. She's right, so I apologize to the owner of the gold Bianch...

You may have noticed that it was nice today. So, when the whistle blew at work today, my Colnago and I headed down towards the Wethersfield ...