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It's a beautiful day today; happy Valentine's Day! Yesterday, Salem and I rode up to Congamond to spectate the NEMBA ice race thingy...

In October I walked into a bicycle and sandwich shop in Provincetown, almost as an afterthought before leaving town. It was a blustery day i...

Should there be any readers who wish to be riders Saturday, Brendan and I will be pedaling up to the NEMBA ice races on Lake Congamond. http...

Handcuffs for bike locks are as common as rusty fenders here in Key West; but this awesomely strange combination of handlebar and bar ends i...

Booming announcer: "Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, race fans, fans, fans..." Enough of that, but more to the point, NEMBA will be h...

I spent a happy portion of my late teens and early twenties meandering around the northeast quadrant of the US. My scaled-down version of th...

Sometimes when it snows, you decide not to ride your bike and instead stalk a herd of deer through the woods around Cedar Hill Cemetery on y...

Today 's Bikes Outside feature is my favorite thus far. Somebody obviously put a lot of time and care into decorating this cruiser-style...

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...