the beat bike blog

Several months ago, I endeavored to ride a difficult ride. It was to be in Vermont and go up Bald Mountain (in Westmore). Bald Mounta...

That's what she said! Sorry. Our blog is usually lacking in terrible humor (always lacking in good humor). Anyway, I took the f...

I rebuilt my dad's old Mongoose Alta and rode out to Case the other day. While 34:16 is not too bad along the way, with flat pedals...

There aren't any bears in BJ and the Bear, but I saw a bear yesterday at the Reservoir. It was awesome. I was coming down the fence...

Surprisingly, the genre "mountain biking" is not that big in cinema. None the less, they still make a few of those movie with...

At some point, I was once again lamenting the problems with the trails at the West Hartford Reservoir. Unlike other times I'd done ...

May 11th @ the Wadsworth Aetna Theater.  Mountain biking documentary. Strength in Numbers . Holy bike culture Batman!  Guess the sell out ...

As we approach 1,000 posts, I guess we've decided to stop writing. It's probably because after all these posts we (I) have reali...

Mountain biking in the Hartford area means mountain biking with sprawl. Sometimes, trails you used to ride disappear completely and somet...

I'm not much of technical rider, anybody can attest to that. Heck, I can't even ride backwards . Though like people better than ...

I've missed the woods. It's not that I haven't been there. I have ventured into the woods and trails many a time over the past c...

It's like the world is conspiring to turn me into one of those singlespeed evangelists. Just when I think I've fixed everything o...

I cannot overstate how pretty it was!   We got a little bit of snow and it was a beautiful day. So, I went to Case and Gay City. There&...

Like liquor stores, I got a second New Year's Day yesterday. So, I went to Nassahegan for the second time since tenth grade. I've ...

My torts professors, Prof. Chill, had advice for exams, which I have next week. Actually, it's Sunday, so now it's this week. His ad...

A year and a half ago or so, a nice person from the Windsor town hall contacted me about a bike path running from the Bissel bridge sou...

But it don't mean nothing without a cat. I think that's how that song goes. Anyway, there's this cat living on our windows...

As you know, I like Vermont. This past weekend I was up there once more, though perhaps the last time for a little while. Courant columnis...