the beat bike blog

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...

It began with what was meant as a short detour on the way home from Colt Park -- a jaunt along the paved Riverside path. But Saturday was th...

Johanna was in need of a sturdy-ish bike for a secret thing involving a bike in a couple of weeks. Looking around on the craigslist and the ...

Is it right to say that I missed the boat? Maybe if it's a hybrid boat-bicycle the idiom would make more sense. Really, I do not know h...

And I didn't see any fairies. :( I also got caught in a thunderstorm in the Glastonbury Meadows. Spring is nice there; there's less ...

Today, April 26, is Fredrick Law Olmsted's birthday. He's responsible for making Hartford's parks awesome. At Keney Park today w...

I've been sort of derelict in my blogulatory duties lately. Perhaps my interest in blogging waning. Perhaps I'm a crappy writer. Per...