the beat bike blog

Hiking is fun and so is cycling. Generally, though, the hike a bike is not something the people seek out. It's good for character ...

I went for a hike yesterday with Johanna and Marko in the vicinity of Bash Bish Falls upon the Taconic Trail. For someone reason, everyon...

This past week is best described as a wintry mix.  Midwest, and the Northeast.  Small towns, no towns, tents in the wilderness, and back to...

Just saw an announcement of a trail cleanup day along the East Hartford section of the Hockanum River Trail this Saturday, June 1st.  9AM-n...

Johanna and I hiked the Mohawk Trail this weekend. It's one of the CT blue blazed trails and it used to be the Appalachian Trail unt...

I still have no idea why I got involved in this, but I'm nearing the final throes of my first semester of law school. The New York Ti...

About a month ago, I got an email from someone named Victoria asking me if I wanted to review soda for the blog. Snow soda to be exact. Sin...

I've been outside as much as I can muster lately, but it's not really leading to anything to write about. You go outside, it's n...

I'm not going to attempt to take credit for the term "expedition speed", but I'm going to do all that I can to propagate i...

Yesterday, I went down to Cheshire Park for the Cheshire CX. Last year, I was getting over a cold at this race and it was brutally cold and ...