the beat bike blog

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 ...

"If I run into you, and you're on a bike, you're dead. My truck, we'll just bounce" Laughter. "They're so stu...

When you nail a pothole that should have been fixed five years ago and wonder who to complain to (besides your friends and at The Beat Bike ...

The automobile, a tool invented to safely transport people with all its crumple zones, airbags, seat belts, safety glass, computers and vari...

CT Transit buses don't like bikes despite those front racks. Or at the very least, they don't like bikes in Hartford. Maybe they thi...

While automobile accidents remain the #1 killer of les enfants , I am unaware of any progressive legislation that would ban minors from ridi...

American exceptionalism and auto-centric culture go hand-in-hand. These foolhardy beliefs make me want to get back to investigating handleba...

I was doing an internet search to find out some boring facts about bicycle usage, and the top website results all had something in common --...

This is a stop sign. It means you are supposed to stop. I share this because I have had two incidents on two consecutive mornings where a mo...

(Disclaimer: This is not a photo from the accident, nor is it from West Hartford) The Courant reported this morning that a bicyclist was st...