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Thus far, The Eel has never gone west of Prospect Ave in Hartford. Today, things got real and went to the New Hartford. Have you been ...

Eel postponed until tomorrow. Bad weather today and good weather tomorrow. Of course in doing that, the weather will be nice today and te...

If you read this blog, you know it's not very good. We're not very good at riding bikes and we're way worse at writing. Aft...

Seems like the BeatBikeBlog only gets a quarter of the page hits in the winter.  What's up with that you fickle nancies?  Perhaps we wri...

If the weather is crappy on Saturday, I think I rather go for a ride on Sunday. Speaking of Sunday, Johanna and I went for a hike on Sunday...

It's been awhile, huh? Let's ride another Eel this Saturday. Meeting 10am on the rocks at Hyland Park in Hartford . A 'cr...

I have a pretty high metabolism. It's mostly pretty nice, because I don't get too cold in the winter. I think it has slowed a l...

When I was riding with Dario the other day, I looked down at my bike and noticed that two chainring bolts were missing and the remainin...

Some people you eat turkey with and some people you ride to the causeway in Manchester with. Happy Thanksgiving!

As you may recall, I do The Eel. Well, now you have to watch and read this . And another thing, when should we do another eel?

My thoughts exactly. I did appreciate a man grunting at me to signify he was passing me on the sidewalk as I strolled along Farmington A...

Come on out to the 2012 Bike Walk Connecticut Annual Dinner and celebrate your purposeful and righteous appetite.   The food is good, the c...

I like winter riding and I like riding in the snow. I may not have a fat bike, but I've got fenders and I've even got studded t...

No matter what happens in the next 27 hours, Joe Lieberman will no longer be the senior senator from Connecticut. This has special mean...

Since it started three years ago, I'd been interested in riding this thing called " Circumburke ". It's in memoriam ...

Every so often I wonder whatever happened to alley cats. Then, I get an email about one. Here is one such example coming soon to Hartford....

Not really.  We love Chris.  But I did take a compromising picture of him on the way back from Middlefield.  Although we didn't have the...

The gist of it is that the road will be closed to motor vehicle traffic, but the DOT should created a reasonable option, like a bridge,...

I went to Glastonbury yesterday and bought some apples and corn at the farm stand on tryon rd. Then, I rode home through the Glastonbury mea...

I feel compelled to give a shout out to Haywood farm in New Hartford, because they gave me a free apple yesterday. I stopped in wanting cide...

I agree with Brendan.  Fall in CT is a short, but beautiful time for riding - when it happens to stop raining. Friday I tagged along ...

When I was in middle school and high school, fall used to be my favorite time of year. I actually liked all those new England trappings of f...

Get out, make some noise.  Tomorrow (Friday) morning.  Put bikes and feet on the street.  West Hartford citizens are taking action. http://...

Envisionmess? Discover Hartford? I live in Hartford! There's nothing left to discover. What you really need is a canoe race. I ...

Open letter to folks that like to have fun, Get off your ass and ride both these great events in Hartford happening within a week of each ...

  When people started singlespeed mountain biking back in the Tour de France or the 1870s or whatever, there weren't really any si...

Some years ago, erstwhile beat bike blogger El Presidente de Chine (de Cine?) wrote about riding slowly . People were way into it. I do...

How long are cycling shoes supposed to last? I used to have a pair of Cannondale shoes and they broke after two and a half seasons. The ...