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Monday, May 16, 2011

Found Things

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*** Special Bulletin: I hope everyone is out earning their bike commuting merit badge this week. It's National Bike to Work Week and t...
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In praise of the swamp thing

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In which I become the tallest midget... Yesterday was the Winsted Woods race. As you may have noticed, it rained a lot. When it rains a lot,...
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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Pornos

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If you rode eel #1 or participated in one of those many source to sea river cleanups, you've noticed a little ribbon of singletrack that...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Dented the rim on my favorite wheelset

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I've been on some nice rides lately, but I seem to have developed some bloggers' block, because I don't know what to say other t...
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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Thug Lite

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Dear Wannabe Thug, You oughta stop listening to your friends now. They were egging you on to race me after I almost clipped your ass this ev...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Wound update

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My gross wound from this weekend is getting better, but walking to work is actually pretty nice. Time to collect my thoughts, look at flower...
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Monday, May 2, 2011

Interesting weekend

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On Friday, a ride of semi-epic proportions was planned and happened . Damian, Dario and I set off for Middlefield to meet Peter and Salem. F...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Pasta on the move: Spring edition

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The tulips bloom for my puttanesca. The Spring floods still haven't abated for us. Look at this forlorn snail as he dares to cross the S...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Planning is hard

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It looks like about 40 emails have been exchanged and few of them make any sense. To wit: Brendan Mahoney to Damian, salemm, dario.delpuppo,...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

Watrouswellburbia

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I took a solo wander yesterday down through Portland, across the ailing Arrigoni Bridge to Middletown, then up to Hartford. Much of this wa...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Earth day irony

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I have a relative who likes to go to parties. Trying to party at Spring Weekend, she got her car towed and I was the only one who could retr...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Giant

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I live in the end of Hartford with giant grinders . I try to follow suit by putting giant tires on my bike. A little more than a year ago I...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Bugs

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I've never been to Seattle, but I'm supposing that we're having Seattlesque weather right now. Undeterred at quitting time yeste...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Diversity

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While Salem was attempting to visit Hartford in the most difficult way possible yesterday, I decided to go out to Farmington to race on what...
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Low and Wet

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Looks like I hexed myself with today's earlier post. I headed out to take the long route into Hartford via the east side boardwalk, but...

High and Dry

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This past Friday, with his hibernation completed, Peter came out of his den to join Brendan, Dario, and me for a Friday jaunt. With the eld...
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Flood porn

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The Connecticut River is high . NOAA is saying intense things (IN ALL CAPS and spelling "officials" wrong) like this: THIS IS A SE...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

World's greatest panniers

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I think cyclists fall into three camps when it comes to moving things by bike: bag on bike, bag on person or basket. And, then there are som...
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