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Meet at the Bushnell Park Carousel at 5:30, last Friday of every month. Brendan and I left the Hook & Ladder happy hour at 6pm and arriv...

Waking up at the butt-crack of dawn wasn’t nearly as much fun as hanging out til 1 am the night before. I needed to brew 42 cups of coffee a...

East Hartford is still flooded.

Because I am obsessed with holidays celebrated only in Massachusetts, I went on a nighttime ride on Monday in honor of Patriots Day. Patriot...

P to the double H was bangin’ Tuesday Night over at Kenny’s Red Rock. Great crew, great crowd, and the Karaoke with the most love. We dined...

4.20 was a great day for an unexpected ride touring around the Collinsville/Nepaug area. Nice indeed! And well celebrated! Corey and I, with...

Last Saturday the entire morning and afternoon crew at EMS arrived on bike or foot. well, except for the management! ha! ok, the manager and...

I was in Boston over the weekend, partaking of the traditional Jewish ceremonial dinner in honor of Patriots Day, and had the opportunity t...

The Aetna Viaduct is boring and lame, so I'm glad that's over. This weekend that just happened was neither boring, nor lame. In fact...

I went to a meeting this morning sponsored by the HUB of Hartford about putting I-84 underground, far away, or into non-existence. The keyno...

i boosted this from a CCBA email i received today: Update on Bill 299 - the great news is that it passed through Appropriations Committee v...

The news of June 29, 1896, that is. I came across this story in the New York Times archives (which are free and online, which is just one mo...

People often ask me, "You work in Bridgeport and live in Hartford, and you bike to work?!" Actually, people almost never ask me th...

Hartford Public Library, Tueday, april 15th. 6pm to 8pm. in the X room. With the Connecticut Department of Transportation currently consider...

I had a visit from an old friend from Maine this weekend. Our play in the Hartbeat was a full weekend of one green (read: inexperienced) ur...

Yeah, Presidents Day was a long time ago, but back then there was no Beat Bike Blog on which to post photos of my Hartford biking exploits. ...

if i wrote a blog well, if i actually did write a blog on the irony of being a circulation manager and a bike commuter, i guess this would b...

Wednesday was the perfect evening for a great bike ride to Manchester from Hartford along the streets and bike paths. Josh, Breandan, Krash,...