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The Snails were joined for a few miles today by an enthusiastic new member. Also, as you can see by this partially blurry image, the Snails ...

While recently reading a forum when I probably should have been doing something useful, I saw a question asking what the advantages of a fix...

I was all excited that the City had built dirt jumps down by Colt Park where the snow mountains had been. Sadly, they're actually just g...

Survey says that 73% of women who have a safety concern related to bicycling named "distracted driving" as the concern. In conver...

I like my Mondays oppositional. Read this and feel the same way.

While we didn't get a Nor'easter of snow in Hartford, it did rain and was kinda gross. No one else wanted to ride with me on Friday ...

Last fall, I played host to the first Detour de Connecticut with great success, or as Brendan put it, "Nobody died." That ride in...

In the spirit of the Red Sox, I also had a completely bootleg opening day for cycling. Now, it's not that I stopped during the winter. I...

I've been listening to the new album by Bibio a lot lately. It's called "Mind Bokeh." I had never heard the word bokeh be...

...are the wrong ones. Looking to build on last fall's Detour de Connecticut success, or as Brendan put it, "Nobody died," I&#...

Quick, while you still have the chance, sue the West Hartford Reservoir. Brendan and I rode there today. I had a good time, but I still do...

Public hearing season is almost done and there's one more recreational liability bill up for a hearing, this time it's before the ju...

I've played with the idea for a little while and I think I want to go through with it. It'd be a two hour race made out of Goodwin P...

Last fall, Dario, Salem and I had an appointment in Berlin. We rode there by way of Cedar Mountain. While in the spooky woods, we encounter ...

If you look really closely under the leftmost stack of power line insulators, you probably still can't see Hartford in this grainy photo...

It all started with the Eel. I met Brendan; I started riding with Brendan. Eventually, I rose to the lofty status of Beat Bike Blog contri...

Salem got a new bike. It looks a little like this Huffy that he once made me take and subsequently took back from me because he liked that b...

On her bicycle, an elderly person was able to escape the tsunami in Japan. I find it impossible to listen to stories like this without immed...

You know who's hiring? Kingdom Trails is . All sorts of summer employment stuff, including being a mountain bike patroller. Need somethi...

The stock wheels on my Yuba Mundo had served me well for the umpteen months I had been riding the bike full time, and I had not been particu...

I have a tendency to collect useful items from the side of the road. Granted, some of those items won't find their use with me for many...

While Salem rode off to some towns no one has heard of, we three remaining Snails, filled with coffee rode our bikes, too. Hard! Really hard...