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What are your plans and goals for 2014 ye loyal readers of the Beat Bike Blog.  Simple stuff or grand schemes?  Were you happy with your 201...

It's that time of year again when folks at work look at the bicycle commuter with a head tilt and ask, "You didn't ride in toda...

Connecticut Magazine and Hartford Magazine publish these stupid lists that rank towns in the area. As you can imagine, Hartford is alwa...

You either engage or enrage.  Pick one. What an amazing community showing at the third and final public info session .  The pitch from t...

I was looking for a good map of Nepaug last weekend and I stumbled upon this . Now, I pay for racing sometimes and sometimes I'll e...

I was reminded this week why Hartford is such an amazing city, especially if you give a damn.  There are so many opportunities to get engage...

There's this big park in Tolland called Crandall Park . I went there yesterday as part of my explore-the-trails-between-Storrs-and-H...

I work across the street from the amazing engine of development that is Goodwin College and regularly take the short walk from Pratt & ...

This past week is best described as a wintry mix.  Midwest, and the Northeast.  Small towns, no towns, tents in the wilderness, and back to...

Riding on leaves can be difficult. They're slippery and unpredictable. I was riding with Salem the other day and he was cruising th...

In case you missed it (ICYMI), Chris Brown has filed a lawsuit against the DOT for shutting Flower Street in contempt of the hearing of...

Run red lights in support of a good cause this Saturday. I only had this flyer as pdf, so I'm not sure if the screenshot I took of ...

I like to think I'm a tough guy and that I'm a fairly in shape one, too. I'm not so sure. At the Hartford 'cross race l...

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