the beat bike blog

All zero of you readers probably thought that (a) the eel didn't happen or (b) I never came back. Well, I'm here to tell you that ...

Remember The Eel? I've thrown like sixty or five of them, but now I'm bringing back. Bringing it back to the level putting it on ...

So yeah, a few of us went for a ride this past Saturday.  It was pretty long, over ten hours to finish the entire kit and caboodle, which is...

While we thought maybe it was the tenth annual Detour de CT, it may in fact only be the 9th. According to the historic documents, t...

As much as I try to avoid buying bike parts off of Amazon, from time to time I do. There had been a bunch of deals of tubes like 8 for ...

As a family-haver, sometimes I have to go things with family. Sometimes I ride my bike, sometimes we pile in the car all together, and s...

Every so often I check to see if anything has happened on the beat bike blog and I'm reminded of my bygone days of riding in jeans an...

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Hi Folks, Bandit Cross was shut down by an overzealous interpretation of what it means to protect Hartford's parks.  But we'll s...

Regrettably, too much has got in the way of organizing the ride, so I'm going to push it back again to a date uncertain. No big dea...

Hello! I have decided to postpone the proposed Eel by a week. There are some people who can't do it the day I picked and I have a p...

My dudettes and dudes! I have had two great ideas for rides in the coming months. 1. The Eel's Return to the Connecticut River....

For the eighth (though not eighth consecutive), I am organizing a clean up of the bank of the Connecticut River at its confluence with...

Tony C is riding his bike from Hartford, CT to Minneapolis, MN under the guise of a fundraiser for BiCi Co.  Really he just likes riding hi...

Come ride four of the best dirt road miles in Connecticut. We'll do a simple staggered start. Stick around for a beer (BYOB) / food at ...

I've put together a new site to advertise Hartford and some Connecticut rides and route suggestions. I really like these routes, that a...

It is impossible for me to ride through the Wethersfield and Rocky Hill meadows without a shit-eating grin on my face. Each time I find myse...

The amount of shattered glass and car wreckage on the streets of the City of Hartford is back up again. It seems to happen every year at thi...

Le Grand Depart. The farm roads out to Ellington were gorgeous this early in the AM. People at this Whole Foods in NH were reall...

This weekend will mark my official return to randonneuring , the relatively non-competitive style of long distance cycling that has been aro...

I went to a bike commute panel last night at the Simsbury public library. It was nice to meet some fellow Simsbury and greater Simsbury...

Find a recap, results and photos of last weekend's Submit to Hartford alley cat here: http://wrongwayslaughter.weebly.com/submit-to...

Alley cats are still a possibility in the cultural backwater that is Hartford! While people in California are bro'ing out bikepacki...

I ride a bike quite a bit and usually pretty slowly. Sometimes for long periods and while it may tire me out, it doesn't really hur...

I spend a lot of time in Bloomfield now. My former 5 1/2 mile commute is now 28 miles. The bulk of the ride is the longest possible way...