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You may have noticed that on the right there are two links to the NOAA sites about the CT and Farmington Rivers' activities. You shoul...

Hartford was largely spared by Hurricane Irene. The Park River is underground, so downtown didn't float away. The Farmington Valley di...

Cool guy with a cool jersey. The D2R2 is getting super popular. Almost 1,000 people signed up and despite Hurricane Irene, it appeared t...

There must be some symbolism.

As you know, Hartford does not have "cool" fixed gear movies like Mash sf or, uh, Empire. I've often thought this is because...

Like most days, Dario and I rode down to the Meadows. On the way home, like most days, I wanted to pick up some Miller Lite. We were retur...

Cedar Mountain Time Tonight, 7:00 PM at Newington Town Hall (131 Cedar St), please embrace your limited opportunity to stand up for Ceda...

Johanna is my wonderful girlfriend. For a time, between the ages of 16 and 23, I didn't really ride my bike much at all. I don't r...

Today was a good day.  Work was productive, which is rare these days.  Then a short satisfying stint at the Hartford Y doing some literacy v...

I haven't seen that movie, " Another Earth ", but I saw a trailer for it when I saw "Tree of Life" (and I didn...

I rode a lot this weekend--up to Whately, MA Friday afternoon, D2R2 100 mile loop on Saturday (to put it succinctly, it was long), and back ...

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...