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In case you missed it (ICYMI), Chris Brown has filed a lawsuit against the DOT for shutting Flower Street in contempt of the hearing of...

Salem and I rode up to Massachusetts yesterday. We felt that it was a pretty expressive ride. We felt marginally protected by the Const...

 Not off the road in the cool mountain biking sense. This, from Simsbury Patch, appears to be the best reporting so far on the stupid s...

A week ago, a terrible thing happened in Newtown. The limited intelligence of the beat bike blog can offer no answers as to the circumsta...

If you read this blog, you know it's not very good. We're not very good at riding bikes and we're way worse at writing. Aft...

You may recall that the Putnam Bridge was supposed to be refurbished and the DOT declared that a bike/ped lane was impossible. There wa...

Remember how recreational land use reform was supposed to be a foregone conclusion after last legislative session? Well, it's not. T...

I am tired of getting chased by people's unleashed dogs. For some reason this warmer weather has led some dog owners to think that th...

But it don't mean nothing without a cat. I think that's how that song goes. Anyway, there's this cat living on our windows...

I stand corrected. I thought because the trees were still standing on Cedar Mountain this spring, the spooky mountain was safe. If you saw ...

Even this trail! Remember the MDC trails? Remember CT's flawed municipality liability law? Me too! So, let's go testify again, this ...

Lots of emails have been flying around email distribution lists that involve trails and land lately, so you've probably already heard ab...

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...

You know, if you do a google image search of "sand pit of death", the first picture is of a cyclocross race. On my way to work thi...