the beat bike blog

On vacation this last week in Southern Florida I did a good bit of cycling and some canoeing, along with a requisite amount of walking about...

There are a lot of folks out there that are bike curious, but maybe haven't taken the plunge yet as a full fledged bike commuter.  Maybe...

Everyone likes finding things.  Well, finding good things.  Finding things like bed bugs or dog shit on your shoe.  Those aren't good t...

I've been riding studded tires all week.  They sound funny and make me go slow.  I get over the slow going frustration by reasoning that...

Please contact your state representatives and let them know how you feel about these three bills currently under consideration.  I am partic...

Good people of Connecticut.  Your bikes are once again lonely.  The bicycle also experiences seasonally affected disorder (bike-SAD).  I'...

Bill SB 103 now in Transportation Committee: AN ACT REQUIRING BICYCLISTS TO RIDE SINGLE FILE ON A PUBLIC ROAD . We need a united action to p...

Hartford and East Hartford IceBike to Work Next week.  Wednesday, January 16th.  A group of hardy winter bike commuters will be meeting up...

Relying on one's self, physically, for transportation.  Periods of time spent with reduced commercial stimuli while directly experiencin...

I screwed up.  My BBB posts listed IceBike to Work on the wrong day.  We will be meeting up tomorrow, Tuesday, December 11th at Maddies in E...

Brendan left out this priceless photo of Ken K riding hands free and cheesing it up on our early hour on the Eel .  We both dropped early f...

Seems like the BeatBikeBlog only gets a quarter of the page hits in the winter.  What's up with that you fickle nancies?  Perhaps we wri...

Come on out to the 2012 Bike Walk Connecticut Annual Dinner and celebrate your purposeful and righteous appetite.   The food is good, the c...

Not really.  We love Chris.  But I did take a compromising picture of him on the way back from Middlefield.  Although we didn't have the...

Get out, make some noise.  Tomorrow (Friday) morning.  Put bikes and feet on the street.  West Hartford citizens are taking action. http://...

Open letter to folks that like to have fun, Get off your ass and ride both these great events in Hartford happening within a week of each ...

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...

Get on your bikes and ride down to the Old State House  in downtown Hartford for some camaraderie and free breakfast.  I'll see you all ...

Put back up a couple of ghost bikes on Burnside Avenue in East Hartford.  The CT DOT removed the originals last winter before one of the ...

The ride from Hartford to New Britain for the annual Bike Walk Connecticut dinner could have been worse. But, it could have been much easie...