the beat bike blog

Starting next week I'm going to kick off an approximately six week bike tour from Hartford, CT to Southern Indiana and back.  It will be...

Glimpse of a bear. Just discovered that my phone makes animated gifs if you take the pictures in rapid enough succession.   I went for...

Had the opportunity to chat with Colin McEnroe on Thursday afternoon .  Oddly they decided the conversation was interesting enough that it...

It was a nice quiet day for a bike ride and as often happens, I saw some deer. Then, I saw the more deer. The second group, of three...

There aren't any bears in BJ and the Bear, but I saw a bear yesterday at the Reservoir. It was awesome. I was coming down the fence...

We may think it's a little hard in Hartford to bike, what with all the deadly sandpits, potholes, glass-strewn streets, poorly designed ...