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For all the myriad porn wonders the internet has to offer, there really is no substitute for good old craigslist. I just love it, and can&#...

I've done some hard thinking. I've asked smart people some questions. I've looked at a calendar. Now's it's for real! Th...

Life is wonderful! I’m poor as hell, but so is most everyone else here right now. After pedicab shifts several of us walk across the street ...

Since America has presidents, America has holidays for its presidents. I get those holiday days off from work. So, over the last six days, ...

Everyone who knows me pretty much agrees that I am a dedicated bike rider. I ride in snow and rain and cold and wind (also, heat and gloom o...

So just as so many of us are embracing more traditional bicycle technologies; including but not limited to steel frames, fixed-gear drivetra...

Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I love love. If you love love or love your love and are wondering what to him with him/her, here...

There is no characteristic that inheres in beer or bikes suggesting that the consumption of the former is in any way tied to the riding of t...

My trusty new cell phone, with a functioning camera (I'm not ready for a real one yet), and I rode around a bunch this weekend. As you ...

I was just looking at twitter and saw an interesting tweet from "bikeride", who is out of Colinsville. It looks like there's g...

As Will now pedals around on whatever it is that he's pedaling around on, here's another view of what's to come in bicycles. It...

Its official! I am a licensed and working pedicab driver...errr rider…make that pedaler! It’s pretty much a really super duper awesome job. ...

Come check out an alley cat in New Haven this Saturday. You'd think with the coffee theme that it'd be at like 6am, but thankfully i...

You know what I would have liked to do on Sunday when the weather was grand ? Go for a bike ride. You know what I had to do instead? Drive a...

Rainbow Road and International Drive in Windsor look much better than this now. I think International Drive also has the biggest building in...

You know what show was totally stupid? Car Voltron. Because seriously, it's like they just drew a big-ass robot and broke it into boxy c...

Cool picture of a double rainbow, huh? I said at some point that I was going to do a sequeel to the eel. However, we've been getting a l...

At one point, I road through this! I guess there weren't frogs falling from sky or wads of mucus, but today was undoubtedly the grossest...

As regular BBB readers know, I recently became a fixed gear rider, and I'm lovin' it. But I'm not a messenger and I don't h...

That's my dad on the right. I don't know who the other people in the picture are. My dad is, and has long been, a big fat guy. As a ...

This is not recent snow. I'm a huge fan of Jill Homer's Up in Alaska blog. I think she's a terrific writer and an inspiring and...

I am now living in the Conch Republic, better known as Key West. Yes, technically it is in Florida, but the vibe and architecture is certain...