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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Dead real estate

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I was putting some final touches on Johanna's Jake the Snake for upcoming abuse of it on the D2R2. I wanted to take it for a spin, so I ...
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Bikes on Dikes

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It began with what was meant as a short detour on the way home from Colt Park -- a jaunt along the paved Riverside path. But Saturday was th...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Frankengoose

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It was the bike nobody wanted. A barely-used Mongoose hardtail with a short-travel suspension fork and chunky tires that hummed loudly on th...
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Monday, August 16, 2010

Ladies drink free!

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I got an email (press release?) from this bike shop in Avon. I complained once about bike shops and woman, maybe these guys are trying to re...
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Bikes Outside: Political Asylum

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Connecticut's primary came and went this past week. The barrage of robo-calls has had a brief lull, and a sense of impending underwhelm ...
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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Less than a week

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Now that primary season is over, we can focus our undivided attention on the D2R2. Last year's debacle weighs heavily on me. I wonder if...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

My Jump

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When I ride to work through Trinity, sometimes I jump this little gap in the parking lot by the field house. Often, there's a car parked...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Ulnar Neuropathy

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Do you think about your left pinky much? I've been thinking about my left pinky a lot, because it's gone numb. It would seem that I ...
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Monday, August 9, 2010

Sea and Oh

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You may recall from the landmark beat bike blog post that Johanna and Brendan sometimes ride a long way . We did it again. This time we deci...
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Bikes Outside: Vito Power

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Following our recent excursion to to the hinterlands outside of the capitol city, we find ourselves back in Downtown Hartford proper for thi...
Monday, August 2, 2010

Bikes Outside: Drum Beat Bike

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This week we are crossing a line I had considered with great trepidation and apprehension. For the first (non-postcard or vacation) time, th...
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Friday, July 30, 2010

Ur Doin it Wrong

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I was doing an internet search to find out some boring facts about bicycle usage, and the top website results all had something in common --...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

GPX'd

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I'm 15 years late to this technology, but I have a phone with GPS now. And, it can track me. I forgot to turn it on yesterday until seve...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The Hours

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It wasn't that great of a book. Anyway, I have an observation to make regarding the sanity and insanity of drivers in Hartford. From wha...
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