the beat bike blog

I used to go out a lot. I'd go to events, I'd go to bars, I'd go to parties and I'd go to other things. Then, I started r...

  When people started singlespeed mountain biking back in the Tour de France or the 1870s or whatever, there weren't really any si...

For machines that have been essentially unchanged for the past several decades, bicycles suffer from a remarkable amount of planned obsolesc...

The dawn of this week finds me sick, so today's Bikes Outside post, slotted in between long-overdue stretches of sleep and home remedies...

This Monday's bike outside brings us to the Center for Urban and Global Studies on the Trinity College campus. This setting is the epito...

The Bread Cycle Works project will be having their inaugural event tomorrow, Saturday, March 27 (rain date Sunday, 3/28) from 10:00 AM to 3:...

I was hoping to find something that could tie in to the winter Olympics, Presidents Day or Valentines Day for this Monday's Bikes Outsid...

Sometimes you don’t want to walk to the bar. Obviously (i hope) driving isn’t an option. I suppose for some reason you may choose not to rid...

I have an affinity for the oddballs, orphans and survivors of the mechanical world. With bicycles, that means things that never sold well (p...

Saturday, Saturday, it’s a Saturday. 5 whole days of work and one whole day to play De La Soul knew what was up, but my pedicab shift on Sat...

carol's sweeeeet flyer...thank you!!!!!! Come burn off all that yummy food you ate the last two days! Hartford's wintertime critical...

Friday, December 5th marked the 75th anniversary of the ratification of the glorious 21st amendment to the US Constitution, and an end to 24...

I was lucky enough to be able to visit a few friends in Oakland and San Francisco last month and get some good drinking done. Two of the gre...

The big one! The OG ride. Wow! After traveling, camping, exploring, and enjoying abundant sunshine and redwoods in northern Cali for two mon...