the beat bike blog

Dear Wannabe Thug, You oughta stop listening to your friends now. They were egging you on to race me after I almost clipped your ass this ev...

Survey says that 73% of women who have a safety concern related to bicycling named "distracted driving" as the concern. In conver...

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...

On her bicycle, an elderly person was able to escape the tsunami in Japan. I find it impossible to listen to stories like this without immed...

First off , cuz I gots a p-u-s-s-y you have to disregard all this. It clearly means that I am having a meltdown, and not that I'm a bad ...

It was the discussion of banana portaging that grabbed my attention while reading Bike Snob NYC yesterday, but the part of his post that ha...

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

Exhibit A: Genderfuck bicycle. Note the bold fuchsia paint job that is paired with a deep blue crate. Exhibit B: The font is bubbly, scri...

This Independence Day edition Bikes Outside brings us to the Firebox Restaurant at Billings Forge in NoFroHo. Huffy is an unmistakably Ame...

In case you're asked to check your bags at the front desk of the oldest art museum in Hartford, you can use this photo as proof that you...

Not all outings threaten to mangle ye olde she-taint. Today's ride was simple -- a very familiar, somewhat short ride to my garden. Anot...

Biking in the rain provides many surprises, especially when one is loath to check the meteorologists' predictions for the day. Needing t...

We're not on bicycles in droves because we're afraid we will muss our hair or get raped in a dark alley. I don't really believe ...