the beat bike blog

I've been 30 for about a week and boy do I feel old. Last night, I was angry at the dehumidifier for shutting off randomly, so I ki...

For machines that have been essentially unchanged for the past several decades, bicycles suffer from a remarkable amount of planned obsolesc...

Today, the Bikes Outside lens drags itself away from hiatus with a proper steel workhorse. This 1970's Raleigh Sprite 27 shares both the...

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...

With all the snow around Hartford, the bike sightings have been down a bit of late. I was out of town most of the past week, so that didn...

This morning's Bike Outside was spotted this past Sunday afternoon at the Hartford Public Library. With high temps barely into the teens...

This morning's Bike Outside is my first since November due to an extraordinarily busy stretch at my job. Thanks to Schleppi for filling ...

This Monday's Bike Outside was spotted downtown a while back. It's a handsome machine in spite of a glaring case of missing bar tape...

Today's bike outside is a feast of well-preserved 1970's Bike Boom bling. Everything you need to make your own low-budget remake of ...

In observance of Labor Day, this week's bike outside was pushed to Tuesday morning. Today, we look at a former British subject leading a...

Early this past Sunday, I took a rainy ride to the New England Muscle Bicycle Museum in Bloomfield for their last "Northeast Bike Swap...

This week we are crossing a line I had considered with great trepidation and apprehension. For the first (non-postcard or vacation) time, th...

In honor of the Irish portion of my ancestry, I wanted to share with you some pics of Raleigh's Irish X-Frame model bikes. Available in ...