the beat bike blog

I have come back from my exile to inform you that the river is getting cleaned again! For the seventh (though not seventh year in a r...

I can't remember how long I've been doing this. I think the first time was 2008, but I skipped it in 2012. So, it might be the ...

Riding on leaves can be difficult. They're slippery and unpredictable. I was riding with Salem the other day and he was cruising th...

Just saw an announcement of a trail cleanup day along the East Hartford section of the Hockanum River Trail this Saturday, June 1st.  9AM-n...

I did lots of things this weekend and now I'm going to tell you about them. The parts of cyclocross that are exciting on a bike generall...

Tomorrow, 10/10/10, please consider grabbing your bike and taking part in 350 for Hartford's 375th . This 350.org Global Work Party eve...

Do you care about the world? If you do, come down to the CT River tomorrow at 10am and help us clean up. We meet, as we have for the last tw...

So, I have unilaterally decided that the beat bike blog is going to participate in the CT River Watershed Council's Source to Sea Cleanu...

This guy is pretty cool. Perhaps we can put people back to work manually sweeping the streets. Should would reduce carbon emissions. So af...

We could eat lunch on this. The few of you who read this blog probably think that we don't care about anything but bikes. It's not t...