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I rode down to New Haven yesterday to get some lunch. I was split between pizza and Mexican food, but the view from the Mexican food is b...

As you've probably been made aware, it's "bike to work day" on Friday. People are always so smug about how great it is ...

I went for a very pleasant bike ride yesterday up through South Windsor. I finally crossed the rubicon that is the Stoughton Brook and, ...

My ankle is still bothering me, so when I went up to Vermont this past weekend I spent most of my time plumbing instead of riding my bike...

*** Fun Fact:  My previous title for this post resulted in the suspension of our Twitter feed.  I guess they thought I was a spam porn bot. ...

The CT DOT held a public info and comment session this past Tuesday to present the planned road diet for Burnside Avenue (AKA Rt 44).  Ther...

I was eating an omelet this morning, so I was thinking about pedals. The skillet I use the most often is this large Lodge cast iron one....

That stands for Post-Traumatic Detour Disorder, but I kid. The route of this year's De Tour de Connecticut was the same pleasant ro...

Not in New Hartford,  in regular Hartford. The Tim Johnson Ride on Washington rode through Hartford yesterday evening and this mornin...

*** Updated 4/23 with Burnside Ave info session details. *** Ha!  Didn't think you'd read a post with such a purposefully confusin...

Johanna and I hiked the Mohawk Trail this weekend. It's one of the CT blue blazed trails and it used to be the Appalachian Trail unt...

There was a time when El Presidente de Chine used to write about these multi-modal adventures to Bridgeport, wherein he'd get drive...

While spinning around with Brendan after work a couple Fridays ago, I managed to catch a stick between the ground and my shin.  Just minute...

There are lots of anniversaries out there of things, because once something happens, it's got an anniversary. Today, this blog celebr...

Last Thursday, Governor Malloy signed the sweeping gun control bill into law. Some people are angry about it and some people are happy ...

On vacation this last week in Southern Florida I did a good bit of cycling and some canoeing, along with a requisite amount of walking about...

That was my terrible attempt at an April Fool's joke. Even to the eight people who would get that joke, it's not even funny. ...

Is Janette Sadik-Kahn unaware of the Classics? I woke up this morning and learned that the NYC DOT thought that cobblestones were dange...

I was reading on Doug's blog that his leg is better and he is back on the bike in the woods. That's cool. In reading what he w...

Awhile ago, I wrote a short story about an erosion psychologist. I didn't really elaborate on what the job entailed, it was a passin...

Well, almost anything.  And I wish that other things were more open, like Denny's says it is.  Wasn't there a scandal a decade ago w...

A few years ago, I chronicled the secret dirt jumps of West Hartford . It was blog post that featured comments from Damian. Remember th...