the beat bike blog

One sunny morning last week I took the East Hartford route to work and cruised the riverfront in between crossing two bridges. This is only ...

After working out some technical difficulties I have finally managed to upload my personal photos for posting and as such now can publish th...

I was excited to read about a column entitled, Grabbing Idea By The Handlebars . I usually like Rick Green's Column. I like this one exc...

Lucky for me, I was able to join two beatbikeblog expeditions exploring some East Hartford and East Windsor riverfront north of the railroad...

The sudden addition of pea-sized hail to the light rain distracted me from my book with all its bouncy pings and dings, especially on the me...

I have only recently recovered from the adventures of happy hour til last call on Friday night and that’s not yet a full recovery mind you! ...

The Mark Twain House to the Spigot, a 25 mile ride? yep, if you do it Brendan's way via Avon's Rails to Trails! Check the ROUTE. Ou...

The Beat was well rep’d this past weekend by a hardy group of current and former Hartford peoples converging in the rotten apple in what was...

It looks I'm the first one who gets to write about the 5boro thing that was yesterday. Here goes: On the whole, it was fun. I'd neve...

Bridges and mud and gin and juice. Well, as my esteemed blogging collogue mentioned; last Tuesday night was all about the bridges. Unknown t...

4.20 was a great day for an unexpected ride touring around the Collinsville/Nepaug area. Nice indeed! And well celebrated! Corey and I, with...

The Aetna Viaduct is boring and lame, so I'm glad that's over. This weekend that just happened was neither boring, nor lame. In fact...