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 Photo credit: Daniel As someone once said, The Eel is a ride of attrition. From its humble beginnings, as a wet race in origina...

First of all, I want to thank the participants of the river cleanup this year. Lots of Trinity students + Joe, Greg and Rich. We cleane...

Since I live here, I ride in Hartford a lot. It's not really new and interesting any more. Last night, diverging my usual form, I we...

Hey, you! Hey martial arts fans . You are reminded that the beat bike blog's pretty much annual Source to Sea Cleanup is this Sat...

As a visionary thinker, I like to start off my day with really good ideas. My first good idea was I should start a hip hop news site. Th...

I know have written any beat bike blog things for a long time and this has nothing to do with bikes. For the fifth year (though not fi...

The following just showed up in my inbox.  The topic is near and dear to your heart, and it's an opportunity to show up on a damn bike a...

At around 1PM on Sunday afternoon, I had serious need for a break, a chance to get out of the house and two events that sounded appealing. ...

Well, almost anything.  And I wish that other things were more open, like Denny's says it is.  Wasn't there a scandal a decade ago w...

Ken K is headed for some new digs.  I helped him move a couple of loads yesterday and dropped off a housewarming curb picked trailer.  Ken h...

The other day marked my completion of 38 trips around the sun. While not the birthday party type, I'm more than happy to use it as a ...

When I was in college, I had a job. Actually, I usually had a couple of jobs. So, when spring break came around, I just worked more hours. O...

I'm sure everyone is really interested in what my final determination was on the gloves. The new ones I bought from REI were not goo...

Brendan and I headed out for a mixed media ride on Saturday.  Starting out down Main Street East Hartford, some a-hole driving a Porche Caye...

Hartford's downtown is not that big. I think it's like two square miles or something tiny. I worked in it for awhile and would r...

I bought a folding saw last week, because I want to become beloved for my trail maintenance. I started clearing the trail that runs throu...

A year and a half ago or so, a nice person from the Windsor town hall contacted me about a bike path running from the Bissel bridge sou...

As I think some blog post stated, I am no longer a bureaucrat and am instead a law student. The books are heavy and are taking a toll on m...

As per routine, the rain cleared and we returned to the river and picked up myriad debris. Though mainly, it's just just bottles. Of n...

It's the beginning of Fall, we clean up the river. I'm not sure why we've developed this tradition, but I think it's a good ...