the beat bike blog

The title for this article is not just the lyric for a 90’s pop song .  Signs, and their placement, make a world of difference. If you ca...

If you've ever gone passed the DMV in Plainville, you end up in a weird place. I went there one time in high school with my friend...

I don't know anything about downhill. I go on pinkbike sometimes, but I can't figure it what those people are talking about. T...

I haven't raced a mountain bike in awhile. The last time I did that was at the Circumburke. That was a pretty high note, because I wo...

I'm glad "mountain", "biking", "Keney" and "Park" don't have any s's in them, becau...

I was looking for a good map of Nepaug last weekend and I stumbled upon this . Now, I pay for racing sometimes and sometimes I'll e...

Riding on leaves can be difficult. They're slippery and unpredictable. I was riding with Salem the other day and he was cruising th...

I like to think I'm a tough guy and that I'm a fairly in shape one, too. I'm not so sure. At the Hartford 'cross race l...

While wandering around today taking in the last of the leaves and generally exploring areas Northwest of Hartford, I came across a curious ...

Went out for a spin this weekend, initially with the intent of camping near the Barkhamsted Reservoir after exploring some of the dirt roads...

I was eating an omelet this morning, so I was thinking about pedals. The skillet I use the most often is this large Lodge cast iron one....

Yesterday, I went out to the secret trails in Manchester. It was transcendent. Everything was flowing right, I saw several otters swimm...

Since it started three years ago, I'd been interested in riding this thing called " Circumburke ". It's in memoriam ...

  When people started singlespeed mountain biking back in the Tour de France or the 1870s or whatever, there weren't really any si...