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It's been awhile since there's been art to look at on Arbor, but it's coming back. See here: By then we will have passed into Su...

As you know, I've been breaking a lot of spokes lately. As cool as the 31 spoke pattern is, I want my rear wheels to stay burritos and n...

There was an article in the Courant today about a body found in the Rocky Hill sandpit. Dario and I were riding there last week, as I was s...

Just when you thought it safe to sell your fixed gear, take a year off and become a full time randonneur, there's another alley cat in H...

When I bring my bike into work through the side door and into the basement. Often, I'll do a lap of the basement hall, with its two litt...

So when I lived in Champaign-Urbana there was a google group of  similar interest riders who used the list to set up impromptu rides.  Is so...

I randomly headed south from East Hartford with the intent of logging a longish ride, between 60 to 80 miles.  Stayed close to the Connectic...

My Passat was a car to be reckoned with. It had five gears, four cylinders, a turbo charger, leather seats, an aluminum skid plate that coul...

I stand corrected. I thought because the trees were still standing on Cedar Mountain this spring, the spooky mountain was safe. If you saw ...

...I'm usually too busy to blog. Definitely too busy busy to take pictures, so this post will be attended by the inky blackness of nigh...

I doubt that anyone reads this blog closely enough to recall my last foray up Mt. Hor . Willoughby State Forest is a big old state forest ne...

It's been a while since we've had one of these . I believe this is still planned for Sunday. Who's riding?

At work yesterday, a bunch of Jamaican food appeared and it was very good. There was extra, so I took some rice and stewed chicken home in a...

I unwittingly got an early start on Bike to Work Week with a full-day Sunday work call in South Green. The weather was very accommodating, ...

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

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...