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Friday, August 31, 2012

What a difference an inch makes

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That's what she said! Sorry. Our blog is usually lacking in terrible humor (always lacking in good humor). Anyway, I took the f...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Diminishing returns

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It's another one of those transitional periods when I start to neglect the beat bike blog. Sorry, beat bike blog. Limed fields in t...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

I need some bike mechanics.

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Heya kiddos.  The Discover Hartford Parks Tour is Saturday, September 29th.  I'm looking for 6-8 mobile bike mechanics / route marshals...

Flower Street Scoop

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I was hoping for a rope swing to get over the busway at Flower Street. A source has forwarded an email to the beat bike blog from the ...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Thoughts on Flower Street

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You may recall that the Putnam Bridge was supposed to be refurbished and the DOT declared that a bike/ped lane was impossible. There wa...
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Sunday, August 19, 2012

DOT Violates Own Policy

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Photo by Christopher Brown, used with permission // Looking north on Flower Street. During the winter-that-wasn't, James Redeker, ...
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Bonus Sunday philosophy post: Is Cycling a Constitutional Matter?

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Dario sends this along to be posted: Dear Tony, Thank you for posting my response to the NPR segment dealing with bicycle cultur...
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One man's D2R2 is another man's R2D2

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As the New England cycling blogosphere is no doubt atwitter, D2R2 was yesterday. As you probably want to know, my gearing was (463:2973...
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Saturday, August 18, 2012

I Love Cities!

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Right now I'm lounging behind the Polish National Home enjoying live (FREE) jazz .  As Valerie might say, "More fucking jazz?"...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

People who drive the wrong way on one way streets

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Since the spring, I've watched a fair amount of people drive the wrong way down one way streets in front of me. It's getting p...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

It's Raining Bicycles in Hartford?

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If you’re looking for fun bike stuff to do in Hartford, there is an abundance coming up in the next month and a half.  Some of it even sn...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

How to ride a long way without really noticing it

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No one has written to the beat bike blog asking for advice about riding. Ever. It's not surprising, considering I don't really ha...
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Saturday, August 11, 2012

A Long Sunday Ride

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This past Sunday Kenny convinced me to ride down to East Haven with him to where we'd be placing a ghost bike as a memorial for Jeffer...
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Friday, August 10, 2012

My secret hope

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So, I've been interning at a law firm this summer. I've learned a lot and it's fun, in a pretend-to-be-a-lawyer sort of way. Som...
Thursday, August 9, 2012

East haven

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Ken doesn't ever seem to want to write blog posts here anymore, but with our poor writing quality, it's no big surprise. None the l...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Keney carriage roads are being cleared out

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Very cool. I wonder who's doing this. The park is the cleanest since I've lived here.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Things I love besides my bike

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You may have noticed that there are no people in that blog post from yesterday. Johanna emailed me and told me that it looks like I went on ...
Monday, August 6, 2012

My summer vacation

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Per usual, I spent my summer vacation more or less in Vermont. In addition to riding around, I endeavored to take up fishing. Since, I al...
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Sunday, August 5, 2012

38 Special

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The other day marked my completion of 38 trips around the sun. While not the birthday party type, I'm more than happy to use it as a ...
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Saturday, August 4, 2012

NPR and Velosophy

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I had the opportunity to be an in studio guest on the Colin McEnroe show this week to chat about bikes, bike culture, and infrastructure.  ...
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Monday, July 30, 2012

Gay Pride Parade

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While enjoying an otherwise beautiful family weekend in northern Michigan one of my uncles repeatedly heckled me about the gay pride parade ...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Why do engineers ride bikes?

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The weather was looking iffy on Thursday morning, but the sky held itself together for our sake.  Had about 50 cyclists check in, and the Ma...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Bike to Work Breakfasts on Thurs and Fri

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Heads up.  Free food for bike commuters.  Thursday in East Hartford, and Friday in downtown Hartford.  See you there. Free water bottles an...
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Saturday, July 14, 2012

It's bigger than us.

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Colleen was run over by a box truck last year.  She died.  Twice.  But somehow with modern medicine and lots of donated blood she survived. ...
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We like nearby music.

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Today!  July 14th. http://www.charteroakcenter.org/index.php/2012/07/indie-fest/ Come out to the Charter Oak Cultural Center and catch ama...
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Friday, July 13, 2012

Colnago deals

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Google had an interesting ad for me based on a search: Colnago Bikes at Walmart Walmart.com/Bikes·Save on Colnago Bikes at Walmart....
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