the beat bike blog

Before - Dead? Yesterday was a fabulous Summer Saturday in Hartford.  I spent most of the day transforming my crushed touring bike back ...

Tired of the snow?  It's almost gone! First, I'd like to remind folks that Spring is coming, and with Spring I expect that the t...

Last week I had my bike in the basement to wipe off the salt crust and install much needed fenders.  Despite year round commuting, I'll ...

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

Don't put your bikes away yet.  Ride them all year long.  It's just a question of appropriate outerwear and lights.  It blows my min...

Ride to the Bike Walk CT Dinner Meetup in Hartford - Bike Ride to CCSU Monday, November 24th Leaving 4:45PM from DEEP near Bushnell P...

Bike to Work.  Bicycle skills.  Dinner and Bikes.  The next couple of weeks brings a critical mass of bicycle based activity and I'll be...

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...

It's that time of year again when folks at work look at the bicycle commuter with a head tilt and ask, "You didn't ride in toda...

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

I'm trying to get my head around the behavior of  cyclists in Connecticut, or perhaps this is a larger New England phenomenon.  The situ...

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

Since the spring, I've watched a fair amount of people drive the wrong way down one way streets in front of me. It's getting p...

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 ...

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 ...

With an early Spring and $4 gasoline there are welcome new rumblings around the water cooler.  A perfect storm that lines up with the effor...

Today, it was a ride of commuter bikes for people who don't have a job to which they can commute. Also, I put the strava app o...

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...

I have a BMX bike. It's a Specialized Fuse 2. It's not the best bike, but it had a low buy it now price on eBay and free shipping. I...