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Maybe it is just the circles in which I spin, but there has been a large outpouring of comments regarding the NPR show from Tuesday. As I s...

We had a great time on Colin's show the other day, with lots of positive and thoughtful feedback since. Read this for instance, it...

First, if you can't get enough of us on our poorly written blog, several beat bloggers and our friends are going to be on the Colin McEn...

This morning had me riding to an appointment in Windsor center. There was a negligible drizzle when I left home at 8 AM and it was warm enou...

While riding today in the Marlborough/Colchester/Hebron neck of the woods, I saw three ducks wading and nibbling in a two foot wide drainage...

On my ride of a few days past with Dario and Brendan, I though, while riding on the sidewalk of all things, to ask if either of them was fam...

The Park River comes up a lot when people talk about Hartford. Some people want it to be unearthed and visibly go through Bushnell Park aga...

Today, I present to you one of my least favorite bike components ever: The welded-together triple crankset. I hate these for a couple of rea...

I'm not going to attempt to take credit for the term "expedition speed", but I'm going to do all that I can to propagate i...

So we are in the middle of a halfway through the winter warm week, what better time to announce the next Ice Bike Breakfast brought to you b...

I often stop to gawk at bikes locked to the bike racks and fences of Hartford and beyond. When talking bikes with friends, it's common f...

An appointment near our city's northeastern corner ended earlier than expected, giving me a few extra minutes to enjoy the ride to my ne...

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This past Tuesday evening found me in the grand environs of The Bushnell for the Bicycle Friendly Communities Symposium. The CCBA email I h...

The subtitle of our blog is "Riding bicycles in Hartford". We talk about it less and less because, well, we've got a lot of po...