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I love going to meetings in north end because I get to cut through Keney Park and then return by the dump on the along river for the return ...

Well, not really. It just happens to be one of my favorite stories in Dubliners , along with "Eveline". As egos are an important p...

Pedaling positions and styles are controversial issues in cycling. I came across this interesting article the other day and it raised some...

I picked up this handy book on basic car and bike maintenance in Havana. It has lots of good tips and pictures. You can look at the whole th...

One of the things I noticed when I was in Cuba is that the people there ride their bikes slowly. Singlespeeds are prevalent, but even bikes ...

During the last week, your humble correspondent was absent from the blogosphere, having undertaken a humanitarian mission to the island nati...

View keney stuff in a larger map On Saturday, my job impelled me to chill in Keney Park , which is fine because I love chillin in Keney Par...

So, the 5K at Keney was too hard to execute during the budget season, so it's been reimagined into a car-free day at Keney from 10 to 2 ...

On Friday, I rode half of the metacomet epic and met a turtle.

I'm not going to lie: I don't like ATVs. As a mountain biker and periodic hiker, I don't see the need for a engine to get throug...

The Connecticut River in Hartford is a subject in many of our posts, and we spend a lot of time down along the banks of the silty, sandy Con...

Because sometimes we have to reflect on the sad things, tonight is the Ride of Silence . We're meeting at the Elizabeth Park Pond House ...

Rich, chocolaty, home-made cupcakes. Placing them on the front rack makes you ride faster to try to catch up to them.

Oh. My. God. I have found the next hot thing, or at least the next thing that I really really want. Awesomeness, thy name is Trikezilla : Ad...

As the images above show, there is a correlation between the decline in the quality of train travel in America and the decline is sartorial ...

"Cell Phone Exchange," by Flickr user Thomas Hawk . Some rights reserved . A long while ago, I had the idea that we could get more...

Every blog post deserves a picture, even if it's not so germane to the content of the post. As I often report in this space, I live a mu...

There's a rally today at the Capitol for bikes (don't know about the riders) from 12:15 to 1:15. It's in support of SB 735, an ...

In the post below this one, Brendan asks whether planned, suburban, German-engineered carlessness is everything its cracked up to be. (I kno...

So, this is the type of article we're supposed to be really excited about. What do you think? Is car-free bliss? Does it have to be thi...

Once, awhile ago, I was supposed to see Belle & Sebastian in Northampton with this friend of mine. We bought tickets about a month in ad...

Pull Up the People is an online radio show with accompanying playlists. I found them when they linked to me (for what I don't know). But...

From the BeatBikeBlog's behind the scenes department of marketing and public relations: As Brendan mentioned, your humble beatbikeblog h...