the beat bike blog

This morning, I headed out on the cargo bike to run some errands, starting with a trip to the DMV office in Wethersfield to renew the lapsed...

1) SAVE YOURSELF Triple-digit heat and news feeds full of horrible things made the last couple of days lousy ones to spend indoors or out. ...

I think in the 1990s, 117% of all bikes sold in the US were mountain bikes. Everybody was mountain biking and therefore not everyone mountai...

When I bring my bike into work through the side door and into the basement. Often, I'll do a lap of the basement hall, with its two litt...

My Passat was a car to be reckoned with. It had five gears, four cylinders, a turbo charger, leather seats, an aluminum skid plate that coul...

I stand corrected. I thought because the trees were still standing on Cedar Mountain this spring, the spooky mountain was safe. If you saw ...

At work yesterday, a bunch of Jamaican food appeared and it was very good. There was extra, so I took some rice and stewed chicken home in a...

In which I become the tallest midget... Yesterday was the Winsted Woods race. As you may have noticed, it rained a lot. When it rains a lot,...

I've been on some nice rides lately, but I seem to have developed some bloggers' block, because I don't know what to say other t...

I live in the end of Hartford with giant grinders . I try to follow suit by putting giant tires on my bike. A little more than a year ago I...

I've never been to Seattle, but I'm supposing that we're having Seattlesque weather right now. Undeterred at quitting time yeste...

While Salem was attempting to visit Hartford in the most difficult way possible yesterday, I decided to go out to Farmington to race on what...

I've played with the idea for a little while and I think I want to go through with it. It'd be a two hour race made out of Goodwin P...

Last fall, Dario, Salem and I had an appointment in Berlin. We rode there by way of Cedar Mountain. While in the spooky woods, we encounter ...

You know who's hiring? Kingdom Trails is . All sorts of summer employment stuff, including being a mountain bike patroller. Need somethi...

I've never written a bike outside, so I'll probably break a rule or two. Pictured here is Dario's Wicked Fat Chance. He got it a...

As a reprise to Wednesday's snow escapades, we met up with another famous Glastonbury mountain biker, Al, headed to the part of the Mesh...

The snow is in a unique state right now. It's deep, but it has a really strong crust. It's so strong that you can ride on top of it,...

Fixed gear mountain biking is like regular mountain biking, but harder. It greatly expands one's likelihood of hitting feet on rocks, ro...

Re: the poll. Road bikes, huh? I like going for road rides and all, but if you look at the tag cloud thing, mountain biking is the biggest t...