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The CT DOT held a public info and comment session this past Tuesday to present the planned road diet for Burnside Avenue (AKA Rt 44).  Ther...

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

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...

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...

Heads up.  Free food for bike commuters.  Thursday in East Hartford, and Friday in downtown Hartford.  See you there. Free water bottles an...

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...

I unwittingly got an early start on Bike to Work Week with a full-day Sunday work call in South Green. The weather was very accommodating, ...

Last Friday I was invited to accompany a Bike Walk Connecticut Board Member to Elm City Cycling's Bike To Work Breakfast in New Haven. I...

Today was the monthly Bike to Work event, and from what I hear, the only one scheduled for the year. Finding this hard to believe, I read ov...

This Monday we have a couple of the bikes that stopped off at Jo Jo's for this past Friday morning's Ice Bike to Work breakfast. A t...

We had a great time on Colin's show the other day, with lots of positive and thoughtful feedback since. Read this for instance, it...

Return of the Scorcher is one of the movies on a Ted White DVD, which also contains the more talked about, We Are Traffic. WAT is a great d...

I love going to meetings in north end because I get to cut through Keney Park and then return by the dump on the along river for the return ...

I am now living in the Conch Republic, better known as Key West. Yes, technically it is in Florida, but the vibe and architecture is certain...

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...

The Sandpit of Death before last week's gorilla clean-up! I will replace with an up-to-date photo manana. The first BBB post about The S...

Start friday morning with a ride to The Old State House for Bike to Work and enjoy a free breakfast of coffee, juice, bagels, bananas and o...

The beatbikeblog’s day by day, play by play calendar for a mad busy week of great events. Wow. Summer is in full MF’n effect! Lots going on,...

Its Wednesday! Delivery day! ARRGG! i wanna go back to sleep. My kayaking trip got rained out yesterday, so i got to drive into work this mo...

its sooo nice outside! don't be a fool...ride a bike! Wednesday, May 14: Bike to Dinner Lena's at 5:30pm. 2053 Park Street, Hartfor...