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The tulips bloom for my puttanesca. The Spring floods still haven't abated for us. Look at this forlorn snail as he dares to cross the S...

It looks like about 40 emails have been exchanged and few of them make any sense. To wit: Brendan Mahoney to Damian, salemm, dario.delpuppo,...

I took a solo wander yesterday down through Portland, across the ailing Arrigoni Bridge to Middletown, then up to Hartford. Much of this wa...

I have a relative who likes to go to parties. Trying to party at Spring Weekend, she got her car towed and I was the only one who could retr...

I live in the end of Hartford with giant grinders . I try to follow suit by putting giant tires on my bike. A little more than a year ago I...

I've never been to Seattle, but I'm supposing that we're having Seattlesque weather right now. Undeterred at quitting time yeste...

While Salem was attempting to visit Hartford in the most difficult way possible yesterday, I decided to go out to Farmington to race on what...

Looks like I hexed myself with today's earlier post. I headed out to take the long route into Hartford via the east side boardwalk, but...

This past Friday, with his hibernation completed, Peter came out of his den to join Brendan, Dario, and me for a Friday jaunt. With the eld...

The Connecticut River is high . NOAA is saying intense things (IN ALL CAPS and spelling "officials" wrong) like this: THIS IS A SE...

I think cyclists fall into three camps when it comes to moving things by bike: bag on bike, bag on person or basket. And, then there are som...

As a crappy cyclocross and mountain bike racer, I decided it was finally time to try racing on the road for once and went to Battenkill....

Today, the Bikes Outside lens drags itself away from hiatus with a proper steel workhorse. This 1970's Raleigh Sprite 27 shares both the...

The Snails were joined for a few miles today by an enthusiastic new member. Also, as you can see by this partially blurry image, the Snails ...

While recently reading a forum when I probably should have been doing something useful, I saw a question asking what the advantages of a fix...

I was all excited that the City had built dirt jumps down by Colt Park where the snow mountains had been. Sadly, they're actually just g...

Survey says that 73% of women who have a safety concern related to bicycling named "distracted driving" as the concern. In conver...

I like my Mondays oppositional. Read this and feel the same way.

While we didn't get a Nor'easter of snow in Hartford, it did rain and was kinda gross. No one else wanted to ride with me on Friday ...

Last fall, I played host to the first Detour de Connecticut with great success, or as Brendan put it, "Nobody died." That ride in...

In the spirit of the Red Sox, I also had a completely bootleg opening day for cycling. Now, it's not that I stopped during the winter. I...