the beat bike blog

The title for this article is not just the lyric for a 90’s pop song .  Signs, and their placement, make a world of difference. If you ca...

East Hartford will do pretty much anything to lure developers and tax money into town.  There are plans for outlet malls in the old airfiel...

Hey y'all.  Wanted to share the following, since you're starting to think about bikes again.  The Spring Bike Frenzy is a seasonal d...

East Hartford Bike to Work. Many of these folks cycled over from West Hartford. Living in Connecticut and riding a bicycle for 90% of my...

There are TWO bike centric events next week in downtown Hartford.  Just found out about the East Coast Greenway info / social yesterday. Tu...

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 ...

The first third of my recent Northeast bike tour was on the coast and much of that portion was on the East Coast Greenway .  The ECG has gra...

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...

It looks like about 40 emails have been exchanged and few of them make any sense. To wit: Brendan Mahoney to Damian, salemm, dario.delpuppo,...

I have a relative who likes to go to parties. Trying to party at Spring Weekend, she got her car towed and I was the only one who could retr...

Is it right to say that I missed the boat? Maybe if it's a hybrid boat-bicycle the idiom would make more sense. Really, I do not know h...