the beat bike blog

Things start to happen when the voters and organizations in Hartford demonstrate that they are a coordinated group with agreed upon goals.  ...

Cross racing.  Have you seen it?  Not a horde of queens sprinting in heels , although that would be equally awesome.  Cyclocross is a newer ...

The other day marked my completion of 38 trips around the sun. While not the birthday party type, I'm more than happy to use it as a ...

As you know, I've been breaking a lot of spokes lately. As cool as the 31 spoke pattern is, I want my rear wheels to stay burritos and n...

I'm not that good at working on my bikes. My Stumpjumper needs a new a new headset, so I bought one awhile ago, a Cane Creek S-8 . I hav...

Tomorrow, April 10 is the Blessing of the Bikes in New York. It also happens to be the first anniversary of my father passing away. The ove...

I recently found myself in Willimantic for the first time, and had an opportunity to check out a couple of places that countless people have...

This past Tuesday evening found me in the grand environs of The Bushnell for the Bicycle Friendly Communities Symposium. The CCBA email I h...

We're not DC, but we've got some pretty blossoms of our own in Bushnell Park: Also, never buy anything from wheelworld.com. I tried ...

It's a shortcoming of our blog that none of the writers are women. I don't think this is so much because we've actively tried to...

Its safe to say this bike shop has had a pretty shitty (and deserved) reputation for a long time. A friend recently suggested I stop in as t...