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Once again, I was in Vermont. I rode around, finding exciting woods roads on top of mountain, ancient settler roads (and a nice man named Wa...

We've been having some turbulent weather lately, but when a late July ride in CT includes building a snowman, that's just getting to...

The automobile, a tool invented to safely transport people with all its crumple zones, airbags, seat belts, safety glass, computers and vari...

1) SAVE YOURSELF Triple-digit heat and news feeds full of horrible things made the last couple of days lousy ones to spend indoors or out. ...

They' re holding another public info session on the Rt. 3 bridge on Aug 10th (Wed) at the Glastonbury Riverfront Community Center.  300 ...

It would seem we've reached the part of summer when everyone has lost their minds, because the accidents in the Courant keep getting mor...

I have a New York Times alert for things about bikes because I'm a dork. Lately, it's about been about a bike race in France. For aw...

Most cyclists like to keep track of many statistics associated with their riding. I don't have a cyclocomputer, SRM or GPS. I have a GPS...

Dario-distorion It is hot, but I still like to ride a bike. So, I go slow. It seems to work out well. I rode around in a cotton tshirt this ...

Semi-apropos to my post earlier, since I rode under the Putnam Bridge on my way to the ferry. That fellow at the DOT wrote back to those of ...

I don't know if it's the heat or what, but I went for a ride out to Willimantic yesterday and felt terrible. I guess I hadn't r...

I've enjoyed nine full months of being car free in CT.  It has been some time since the last Car Free article , and there is much to sha...

Congress is in a budget cutting mood.  If you think bike / ped dedicated infrastructure funding is too important to cut, you can tell our CT...

There was a recent public info session held by the CTDOT with regards to the planned new deck for the Putnam Bridge.  This is the Route 3 hi...

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...