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Friday, May 17, 2013

Eel massacre

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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...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

People in cars

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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 ...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Keney Park singletrack

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I went for a very pleasant bike ride yesterday up through South Windsor. I finally crossed the rubicon that is the Stoughton Brook and, ...
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Friday, May 10, 2013

Truth in advertising

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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...
Thursday, May 9, 2013

WarmShowers.org is Awesome

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*** 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. ...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

The CT DOT does Good. Sometimes.

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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...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

More on flat pedals

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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....
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Monday, April 29, 2013

PTDD

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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...
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

New Hartford Criterium

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Not in New Hartford,  in regular Hartford. The Tim Johnson Ride on Washington rode through Hartford yesterday evening and this mornin...
Monday, April 22, 2013

Tim Johnson Summits Burnside Ave Bike to Work

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

The man who drank water from Dudleytown

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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...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Motet

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There was a time when El Presidente de Chine used to write about these multi-modal adventures to Bridgeport, wherein he'd get drive...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Busy Bees, Removing a Stinger

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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...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

5 years of the Beat Bike Blog

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There are lots of anniversaries out there of things, because once something happens, it's got an anniversary. Today, this blog celebr...
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Monday, April 8, 2013

Gun control

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Last Thursday, Governor Malloy signed the sweeping gun control bill into law. Some people are angry about it and some people are happy ...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Why wait?

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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...
Monday, April 1, 2013

Salem cancels Detour so that he can go ride around in circles at Winding Trails

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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. ...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

Pavé

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Is Janette Sadik-Kahn unaware of the Classics? I woke up this morning and learned that the NYC DOT thought that cobblestones were dange...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Stay away!

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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...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Erosion Psychologist

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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...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Open for Anything?

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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...
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Secret West Hartford dirt jumps

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