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Just noticed on the Bike Walk CT website that CT vaulted forward in national bike friendliness rankings.   We moved from an embarrassing 40...

I think in the 1990s, 117% of all bikes sold in the US were mountain bikes. Everybody was mountain biking and therefore not everyone mountai...

The CT siting council approved the windfarms in Colebrook and everyone is upset . People are really upset about Capewind, too. The wilds are...

I am a pretty terrible mechanic, but one thing I have figured out how to do is adjust the parts of the bike that involve how I fit on the bi...

I've ridden out to Canton and New Hartford like a million times and I get kinda set in my ways. I reserve exploration for when I get all...

The beer tasting festival at Martin Park offered oodles of local and not so local brews.  Still wondering how I almost managed to miss this....

Remember those old home security commercials featuring a "burglar" who brags that he can pick most locks with a credit card? No to...

Got quite a weekend coming up. Burnside Craft Brew Festival during the day Saturday. 1-5PM in East Hartford's Martin Park. After samp...

It's been awhile since there's been art to look at on Arbor, but it's coming back. See here: By then we will have passed into Su...

As you know, I've been breaking a lot of spokes lately. As cool as the 31 spoke pattern is, I want my rear wheels to stay burritos and n...

There was an article in the Courant today about a body found in the Rocky Hill sandpit. Dario and I were riding there last week, as I was s...

Just when you thought it safe to sell your fixed gear, take a year off and become a full time randonneur, there's another alley cat in H...

When I bring my bike into work through the side door and into the basement. Often, I'll do a lap of the basement hall, with its two litt...

So when I lived in Champaign-Urbana there was a google group of  similar interest riders who used the list to set up impromptu rides.  Is so...

I randomly headed south from East Hartford with the intent of logging a longish ride, between 60 to 80 miles.  Stayed close to the Connectic...

My Passat was a car to be reckoned with. It had five gears, four cylinders, a turbo charger, leather seats, an aluminum skid plate that coul...

I stand corrected. I thought because the trees were still standing on Cedar Mountain this spring, the spooky mountain was safe. If you saw ...

...I'm usually too busy to blog. Definitely too busy busy to take pictures, so this post will be attended by the inky blackness of nigh...

I doubt that anyone reads this blog closely enough to recall my last foray up Mt. Hor . Willoughby State Forest is a big old state forest ne...

It's been a while since we've had one of these . I believe this is still planned for Sunday. Who's riding?

At work yesterday, a bunch of Jamaican food appeared and it was very good. There was extra, so I took some rice and stewed chicken home in a...

I unwittingly got an early start on Bike to Work Week with a full-day Sunday work call in South Green. The weather was very accommodating, ...

*** Special Bulletin: I hope everyone is out earning their bike commuting merit badge this week. It's National Bike to Work Week and t...

In which I become the tallest midget... Yesterday was the Winsted Woods race. As you may have noticed, it rained a lot. When it rains a lot,...