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I've missed the woods. It's not that I haven't been there. I have ventured into the woods and trails many a time over the past c...

It's like the world is conspiring to turn me into one of those singlespeed evangelists. Just when I think I've fixed everything o...

Apparently, after hundreds of years of oppression, we may be able to buy liquor on Sundays by the end of the year. See here.  I'm no...

I had the slipping freewheel ride on Friday,the lunch with parents and Johanna ride yesterday, and the Ragged Mountain stroll today wi...

  Two inches of wet gross snow fell last night. I didn't want to let that deter me from having fun. So, I put a freewheel on my Col...

As if singlespeeders needed another reason to feel superior, this happened to me today: Luckily, that's a very popular Specialize...

For those fortunate enough to miss past inceptions of the Detour de CT, 2012 offers you another chance to end your lucky streak. But, now i...

If you've ever met Chill Will or me, you know that we're not haircut people. So, you can imagine my surprise when I went to get ...

February 16th State House event to support Intersection Safety Cameras legislation What: Press conference to build support for red light sa...

Yesterday was Valentine's Day, so I had to buy romantic dinner ingredients at Whole Foods in West Hartford. Stop Shop just isn't...

Many are opposed and many are for disc brakes on 'cross bikes. I've ridden a 29er with discs, so I'm assuming it's the s...

Despite the terrible snow storm yesterday, six intrepid men with facial hair, five with old mountain bikes, four who have at one time w...

You may have heard that it is going to snow tomorrow. That will make the ride more fun. 10am Hyland Park on Fairfield Ave. Email me i...

"If I run into you, and you're on a bike, you're dead. My truck, we'll just bounce" Laughter. "They're so stu...

Oops, I did it again, brought another bike home. The real irony here is that I did it to pare down the number of bikes I have. Hear me out...

For the second Tuesday in a row, we had another unseason- ably warm weather forecast, so I went ahead and followed the basic formula that h...

I am tired of getting chased by people's unleashed dogs. For some reason this warmer weather has led some dog owners to think that th...

Read all about it .  Thanks to all the hardy, foolish, beautiful souls who came out and dragged my stuff six miles.  Couches, workbenches, a...

Last Tuesday afternoon greeted me with a combination of mild weather and several errands to run. I had some potential carpentry work to scou...

Ok ok. I think the world is passable enough so that we can do that thing we were going to do a long time ago. This time, the ride will al...

I'm sure everyone is really interested in what my final determination was on the gloves. The new ones I bought from REI were not goo...

Just a short errand ride this morning.  My route was prescribed by the unnoticed ejection of my cable lock the night before while riding ho...

If you've traveled the hockanum river trail in east hartford from the mouth to kahoots, you've probably noticed the little cabin un...

Good. Bad. Unknown. Gloves are important. Some people say mittens are important, but I think mittens are for five year olds. It was a ...

Salem and I went out for a snowy ride on Saturday during the first real snow storm since Halloween.  We followed the Hockanum trail...

True to form, I went skiing this weekend. There wasn't a ton of snow. Well, I guess there was way more than a ton of snow, but not a l...

Someone stole a strange looking extracycle in East Hartford and now its owner can't haul things around anymore. Using something called c...

I cannot overstate how pretty it was!   We got a little bit of snow and it was a beautiful day. So, I went to Case and Gay City. There...