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As much as I love Vermont, driving six or seven hours in one day is a lot of work. So, I stayed in Connecticut. There was a 'cross race ...

Downtown Hartford played host to the annual Hooker Day Parade this past Saturday. The atmosphere was festive, spirits were high, and airbor...

Would you drive up to Vermont this weekend for the Circumburke ? While only 26 miles, it sounds like an awesome back country race. I know so...

Ok, I've got a proposed Eel route here . It's lacking in some details, but you get the general idea. The only thing I need now is a ...

I did lots of things this weekend and now I'm going to tell you about them. The parts of cyclocross that are exciting on a bike generall...

Today's bike outside is a feast of well-preserved 1970's Bike Boom bling. Everything you need to make your own low-budget remake of ...

It's not enough that you had to go tearing across traffic and then the wrong way on a one-way street. I was willing to overlook that, ig...

Remember The Eel? First, it was this cool off road race thing in the rain with a respectable number of participants. Then, it was an alley c...

Today we celebrate the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday with a street-seen mountain bike from the Great White North . The Velo Sport brand i...

Tomorrow, 10/10/10, please consider grabbing your bike and taking part in 350 for Hartford's 375th . This 350.org Global Work Party eve...

About a month ago, I got an email from someone named Victoria asking me if I wanted to review soda for the blog. Snow soda to be exact. Sin...

This Monday's Bikes outside were spotted at last Wednesday's Hartford 2000 First Annual Pasta Dinner. This SoDo fundraiser was he...

Due to the potential for flooding, we're not going to do the clean up tomorrow. Sorry!

Do you care about the world? If you do, come down to the CT River tomorrow at 10am and help us clean up. We meet, as we have for the last tw...

Artist Ted Efremoff and company's Bread Cycle Works Project began this past march in a vacant lot on Broad Street . Join them this Satu...

63xc.com is a cool website, even if it's defunct. It went dormant right around when everyone started riding fixed gear things, whic...

As you may be aware, we've been in a crazy drought. With rain the last two days, all of the sudden I'm losing my mind with the absen...

The dawn of this week finds me sick, so today's Bikes Outside post, slotted in between long-overdue stretches of sleep and home remedies...

So, I did the race at the Dog Park. It was ok. The officials were a little intense and the course wasn't too fascinating. But, turnout w...