the beat bike blog

This morning, I headed out on the cargo bike to run some errands, starting with a trip to the DMV office in Wethersfield to renew the lapsed...

You may have noticed that on the right there are two links to the NOAA sites about the CT and Farmington Rivers' activities. You shoul...

Hartford was largely spared by Hurricane Irene. The Park River is underground, so downtown didn't float away. The Farmington Valley di...

If you rode eel #1 or participated in one of those many source to sea river cleanups, you've noticed a little ribbon of singletrack that...

The tulips bloom for my puttanesca. The Spring floods still haven't abated for us. Look at this forlorn snail as he dares to cross the S...

The Connecticut River is high . NOAA is saying intense things (IN ALL CAPS and spelling "officials" wrong) like this: THIS IS A SE...

In the spirit of the Red Sox, I also had a completely bootleg opening day for cycling. Now, it's not that I stopped during the winter. I...

Winter is now here officially. There was also an eclipse and meteor shower and volcano thing. So, I had a druid ceremony down in the meadows...

Hard to ride on. When you ride a bike, you try to strike a balance between the efficient way and the interesting way to get somewhere On Fri...

It's the tail end of fall and it's cold and dark, but there's one sign of spring: the Connecticut River is flooded. There are ev...

I don't do "heartfelt" or "sentimental," so the plethora of gratitude posts/articles leading up to and on Thanksgivi...

As you may or may not know, there's a new pants place on Pratt Street. More specifically, there's a denim place. It's called the...

On the heels of the eel, Salem organized himself a ride out into the hinterland of East-Central Connecticut. Calling it the De-tour de Conne...