the beat bike blog

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...

Hardy cyclists riding through the winter have been socializing monthly in East Hartford for breakfast at Maddie's and this month we'...

AAA (the American Automobile Association) has not generally been known as an ally of cyclists. They've lobbied against bike infra...

This is the truck. Only 1 of 4 wheels remain on the driveway, so your highest possible grade would be 25%. You definitely failed, dude. ...

In Bro'd Rage Part I , I left off with my trip to Hartford Police Department HQ to file a report. I later sat down and wrote a detailed ...

The Trinity Admissions Gate: area of my initial encounter with the wrong-way driver. Last Friday morning, I was commuting to my job at...

*** Meet at 6pm on Monday, April 7th at Fire and Spice.  Hartford specific bike, walk, bus advocacy group is forming.  *** What is with a...

  Broad and Farmington today   The Broad Street Problem   Broad Street looking northward Broad Street has a well-earned reputatio...

 Not off the road in the cool mountain biking sense. This, from Simsbury Patch, appears to be the best reporting so far on the stupid s...

Last Thursday  Elijah Montalvan was struck by a car and he died on Saturday, September 1st, 2012.  He was riding at night, pretty damn late...

I had the opportunity to be an in studio guest on the Colin McEnroe show this week to chat about bikes, bike culture, and infrastructure.  ...

While enjoying an otherwise beautiful family weekend in northern Michigan one of my uncles repeatedly heckled me about the gay pride parade ...

The weather was looking iffy on Thursday morning, but the sky held itself together for our sake.  Had about 50 cyclists check in, and the Ma...

Heads up.  Free food for bike commuters.  Thursday in East Hartford, and Friday in downtown Hartford.  See you there. Free water bottles an...

Colleen was run over by a box truck last year.  She died.  Twice.  But somehow with modern medicine and lots of donated blood she survived. ...

At some point, I was once again lamenting the problems with the trails at the West Hartford Reservoir. Unlike other times I'd done ...

Brendan accused us of not blogging.  Perhaps we've been riding too much?  Such thing as too much riding? Before we start, I wanted to ...

Quick update: SB 445 didn't get even get called for a vote in committee. Looks like we can be as irresponsible as we like on our sid...

Remember how recreational land use reform was supposed to be a foregone conclusion after last legislative session? Well, it's not. T...

You may recall that Tim Johnson and some other people stopped in Hartford en route to Washington last year . You can even go ride with t...