the beat bike blog

Your intrepid and wool-clad Cat 3 racer went back into the woods last weekend at Winding Trails in Farmington and came out with not just soc...

I am house/baby sitting this week for my parents, so I'm riding from Avon to Hartford. 10 miles is a nice length. Also, your favorite Ca...

On Saturday, we had The Eel 2. I don't know why it has taken me this long to post the results. Turnout was slim, but those who didn'...

Cool picture of a double rainbow, huh? I said at some point that I was going to do a sequeel to the eel. However, we've been getting a l...

Photo credit to *Denise* on Flickr. I resurrected the old Stumpjumper for a ride at the Reservoir last night. The surprisingly warm mid-Dece...

My cold went away, so I raced today. Since I'm not very good, I didn't do that great. I didn't get lapped (no one was being pull...

Looks like fun, huh? I don't have any pictures of the run up. I bought a used Raleigh cyclocross bike off of ebay a few months ago to he...

Alright...so we messed up in joining the Hooker Day Parade on Sunday. We had a plan, we had a theme idea . I was in Vegas, Joel found him...

Don't confuse this with November 4, that's when you need to be voting. The Eel! November 8! 3pm! It's gonna be awesome! Maybe pr...

You know, if you do a google image search of "sand pit of death", the first picture is of a cyclocross race. On my way to work thi...

Holy Shit that 1st band was loud! The hood was scared! The alleycat popped off very well indeed. The police only came twice and the fire dep...

I missed the CCBA general meeting last night due to a work shift, but there is much going on the next few days...the next week actually! Che...

A nasty thing has happened on the past two days on the way to work. Yesterday, I watched a woman vomit while crossing Marshall Street and to...

There isn't very much photographic evidence of the ride we took on Thursday except for Joel's gigantic steak sandwich. Joel was extr...