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Sunday mornings often find me on Clark Street, and subsequently taking a ride through Keney Park. It's a nice way to clear my head. I lo...

This post is dedicated to Peter who recently added the following message to his winter bike: "One less fixie." Peter dedicated th...

I recently found myself in Willimantic for the first time, and had an opportunity to check out a couple of places that countless people have...

Just an FYI to the beat reading world and then some bike stuff. I resigned from the board of the CCBA today, but will continue to be a memb...

Last year, I had big plans for the D2R2 . Sadly, my big plans were met with failure . I was really hoping to be successful, because then I&#...

At the risk of being premature, and with snow in the forecast for tonight (hopefully enough for XC skiing), I saw some of the first signs of...

I wanted to read about President Obama's budget this morning in the Hartford Courant, but it was on pages A3 & A9. I hate turning pa...

Ice floes are awesome. They really elicit that feeling of it being the end of your life and you're being cast out to sea ( even if that&...

This Monday we have a couple of the bikes that stopped off at Jo Jo's for this past Friday morning's Ice Bike to Work breakfast. A t...

Colder than this If one is the loneliest number, what is zero? Well, at 8 o'clock this morning, it was the temperature as I started my ...

This is a stop sign. It means you are supposed to stop. I share this because I have had two incidents on two consecutive mornings where a mo...

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...