the beat bike blog

Last week I had my bike in the basement to wipe off the salt crust and install much needed fenders.  Despite year round commuting, I'll ...

East Hartford Bike to Work. Many of these folks cycled over from West Hartford. Living in Connecticut and riding a bicycle for 90% of my...

Tony and I will be teaching our next Traffic Skills 101 class on Sunday, May 18 in Canton, CT. Register here !

This is the truck. Only 1 of 4 wheels remain on the driveway, so your highest possible grade would be 25%. You definitely failed, dude. ...

Spring is in the air.  Tires are springing leaks, falling victim to the unswept glass shards that are indistinguishable from left over rock...

Here's a question to get you thinking.  How did you learn to cross railroad tracks at a ninety degree angle?  Did you learn about the sa...

But did we stop riding?  No.  We did not stop riding. It's pretty time. In doing my part to extend fair weather cyclists and commut...

Had the opportunity to chat with Colin McEnroe on Thursday afternoon .  Oddly they decided the conversation was interesting enough that it...

Last Thursday  Elijah Montalvan was struck by a car and he died on Saturday, September 1st, 2012.  He was riding at night, pretty damn late...

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 ...

Alfred C. Fuller was hardcore. According to several online biographical statements, the founder of the Fuller Brush Company -- what was the ...

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...

It's not enough that you had to go tearing across traffic and then the wrong way on a one-way street. I was willing to overlook that, ig...

There was some discussion on this blog last month about the overall driver/biker viewpoint-rift that exists which is demonstrated specifica...