the beat bike blog

So, with rare mechanical skill, I installed some Deore XT Dual Control lever/shifters on my Stumpjumper and ran new cables. I didn't thi...

Sometimes I feel like the things I write about in the beat bike blog are just boring rundowns of my week. I don't really have insights o...

Not sure if any of you heard about the sink hole yesterday , but that right's where the Hockanum Trail is that I've talked about lat...

Last Sunday, Salem & Peter Waite organized a ride off into the hinterland off towards Lake Pocotopaug. It was fun, friendly and ended wi...

For some reason, I've had a hard time picking up the blogging machine and writing an entry. It's not like I've been avoiding my ...

So, I want to do this compendium of urban mountain biking in and around Hartford. I don't really have anything coherent yet, but I found...

I tend to fall in routines. I eat at a lot of different restaurants, but I almost always order the same thing at each respective place. The ...

So, I saw this video of a downhill event in the slums of Rio. The course looks cool, but I'm wondering if any of these residents were as...

>I don't want to get shot this weekend. Once again, I'm returning to Vermont. I don't usually go during hunting season. VMBA ...

Art and I went over to Riverside Park last night for some kibitzing about the course. I think we successfully incorporated both of our ideas...

Johanna and I tried to do some mountain biking today, but it didn't go very well because I thought it'd be a cool idea to ride witho...

I received a text message late on Friday from a blogging brother, Joel AKA Billy Hoyle. Little did I know, but he was in Durango during the ...

I'm not all together certain. It was my 26th birthday yesterday and I went for a bike ride on the old singlespeed. It was the first time...

So, that race in Massachusetts happened yesterday. As promised, Brendan raced Cat 2. Brendan's bike, however, had no desire to do that. ...

While I'm glum that Josh is no longer writing in these parts and that we're got some personal turmoil floating about, I'm not go...