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Photo credit goes to Bill and Kent. I don't know who they are, but I know where this is. It appears that summer is coming to a close. I ...

As I pedaled down a striped bike lane in Hartford recently, I was recalling some recent comments basically saying, for one reason or another...

cruisin' on my scaperbike!

So Borat and I have decided to award a thumbs up in the event that the general public does something that positively impacts a member of the...

Start friday morning with a ride to The Old State House for Bike to Work and enjoy a free breakfast of coffee, juice, bagels, bananas and o...

Like Brendan, I also was not at the Olympics. Yay, NYTimes.com China will surely destroy us all with their army of sleek, invading light wh...

Maybe bikes like this should be kept off the roads. I can't take credit for finding this , I found it on the very well-designed K-Wall B...

What's the headlamp for? I read an article last week about Igor Kenk. He was a weird dude who lived in Tornto, ran a dilapidated bike sh...

A while back, El Presidente de China had his folding bike stolen from his car in Waterbury. Despite the worldwide popularity of the Beat Bi...

I stole this picture from nytimes.com. I wasn't at the Olympisc to take it. So, the New York Times wrote a bunch about BMX in the Olymp...

My trip to the Radiohead concert was a smashing success. The music was great, the light show dazzling, and my seat was ridiculous. There ...

In the midst of all of our discussions about conflict between bicyclists and motorists I caught wind of this story from the West coast. Lo...

Pneumonia. Seriously. In addition to spending the first seven of my eleven days off feeling like I'd been hit by a truck, I haven't ...

Another letter in today's Courant offers a retort to yesterday's lette r to the editor which minimized cyclists' rights to the...

Its safe to say this bike shop has had a pretty shitty (and deserved) reputation for a long time. A friend recently suggested I stop in as t...

Do you disagree with that statement? Want to read more? Got something to say about it? Check this letter to the editor from Michael Kluczn...

On the blog we often discuss the issues cyclists have with motorists. Over the last week the discussions have gotten even more frequent as ...

For the bike commuter the prospect of rain has very different implications than for those who choose to drive to work every day. The automo...

Check this story with video from Paul Bass at the New Haven Independent. A crazy-ass driver starts yelling at him telling him to, "Get...

Rich has been in possession of this headpiece for atleast a few weeks, bringing it to various rides, bars, bat mitzvahs, weddings and ice cr...

There is local and national evidence of more bicyclists and bicycling lately. Anecdotally, the three bicycle racks where I work have been fu...

Here is the beginning of my post. Awwww....yeah. Hey Kids! Do you like puzzles?? I do! Here's a teaser for today. Rich has a ticket ...

El Prez and I pedaled downtown Saturday night to the Carribean Festival to eat dinner and check out some music. We unexpectedly passed Krash...

Considering that the Scruffy Peloton has effectively been on hiatus for the past several weeks I took my day off Monday as the opportunity f...

[Take note: This post has almost nothing to do with bikes.] As is mentioned in the post below , the music at the alleycat afterparty was wic...

Holy Shit that 1st band was loud! The hood was scared! The alleycat popped off very well indeed. The police only came twice and the fire dep...