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Re: the poll. Road bikes, huh? I like going for road rides and all, but if you look at the tag cloud thing, mountain biking is the biggest t...

I headed back to Urbana-Champaign, Illiniois for the holiday break and managed to put together a rather slap dash multi-modal itinerary. To ...

The bike rack in the parking lot at the corner of Ann and Pearl Streets was a nice, albeit poorly installed, one. The "Wave" or ...

I don't know much about racing, but I definitely don't know anything about road racing. I have a road bike and it's about as old...

The first Bike Outside of 2011 is the bike of the future, at least according to some bike industry types. Electric assists are supposed to b...

I bought beatbikeblog.com (hosted here) last week, so the beat bike blog will be around for at least another two years even if no one writes...

This morning's Bike Outside is my first since November due to an extraordinarily busy stretch at my job. Thanks to Schleppi for filling ...

There was supposedly an awesome mountain bike ride at Nathan Hale State Forest today, but I couldn't go. I was working on my car. It'...

WARNING - Don’t park your spaceship in front of the Glastonbury Hilton Garden Inn. It may be removed from the premises by authorities for s...

For some reason, the New York Times has jumped on the anti-bike lane and "cyclists break traffic rules all the time" bandwagon tha...

Winter is now here officially. There was also an eclipse and meteor shower and volcano thing. So, I had a druid ceremony down in the meadows...

Hard to ride on. When you ride a bike, you try to strike a balance between the efficient way and the interesting way to get somewhere On Fri...

It's the tail end of fall and it's cold and dark, but there's one sign of spring: the Connecticut River is flooded. There are ev...

As you may or may not know, I'm trying to get better at racing. Former beat bike blogger Salem was PRO for a number of years and I'v...

I almost had a deeply philosophical ride last night, but it started raining and I lost my train of thought. On Saturday, I almost had a deep...

I used to have AAA . And for awhile, I'd totally recommend them. You get discounts on stuff, maps, triptics (triptychs? triptologies? di...

The Park River is low right now. It's so low that there's a good four feet of dry pavement on the side of the conduit. Yesterday, I ...

Alfred C. Fuller was hardcore. According to several online biographical statements, the founder of the Fuller Brush Company -- what was the ...

If you've been reading this blog for awhile, you may recall that I got hit by a car about a year ago. It hurt, but thank heaven (serious...