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The Connecticut could be worse. I've been carrying on about the Source to Sea Cleanup for a long time now. Those of you who know me, kno...

I might be crazy, but I have been using my powers of empathy recently to understand why, exactly, without fail, I see people cycling on the ...

OK, so technically, this photo isn't such a good illustration for this post, because the post has to do with taking full-sized bikes on ...

This isn't actually Carl's bike. But this is what it looks like. I work with a guy named Carl. He's a great guy. I think he...

I've been biking everywhere lately, just as the CCBA is telling us to. I've been doing all my riding on my Raleigh Grand Sport, an...

I would totally ride this drunk. A co-worker and fellow cyclist, Jennifer, brought something to my attention today. She is an Asylum Hill re...

The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/ 09/28/nyregion/connecticut/ 28bikect.html?ref=connecticut September 28, 2008 Recreation Road...

Just below this post, Brendan speculates (more cogently than he gives himself credit for) on how the impending financial apocalypse will tri...

Yeah, it's a Homestar Runner picture. Don't make fun of me. I don't like Maureen Dowd very much, but I seem to read her columns ...

(It's hard to follow a sobering pair of posts like those below with something lighthearted, but, well, here I go anyway.) I rode to Midd...

Bicyclist Struck In West Hartford By CHRISTINE DEMPSEY | Courant Staff Writer 9:49 AM EDT, September 26, 2008 WEST HARTFORD - A bicyclist an...

(Disclaimer: This is not a photo from the accident, nor is it from West Hartford) The Courant reported this morning that a bicyclist was st...

Every blog post deserves a photo, but sometimes it's hard to find something appropriate (and a picture of a Metro-North train or of the ...

. . . to hijack a truck? Not that I would ever do such a thing, but, you know, sometimes I get tempted: (Is this post bike-related? No, it i...

Nothing so exciting, really. Just a bike route sign in West Haven because we hadn't had a bike picture of the day in a while.

The sun sets behind the Arrigoni Bridge as we pedal toward Middletown. On Friday, it was that same old story: Car in Middletown, self in Har...

I have this on a t-shirt now. After complaining about not riding up and down enough a few weeks ago, Johanna and I decided to go to Vermont,...

Sean passing out the prizes Sean has thrown this alleycat for four years now and really hooked up a great race this year. Baileyworks and Ma...

As you read, you will see that this post is about a ride from Bridgeport to New Haven, meaning that it really should have been titled, "...

We could eat lunch on this. The few of you who read this blog probably think that we don't care about anything but bikes. It's not t...

There's an editorial in the Hartford Courant today about the 2008 Hartford Bike Tour that summed up the general feeling about the event...

So I headed over to Elizabeth Park this morning to do some reading and I began to think about Hartford's Parks. As many who read this b...