the beat bike blog

I'm trying to get my head around the behavior of  cyclists in Connecticut, or perhaps this is a larger New England phenomenon.  The situ...

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

The CT siting council approved the windfarms in Colebrook and everyone is upset . People are really upset about Capewind, too. The wilds are...

I've ridden out to Canton and New Hartford like a million times and I get kinda set in my ways. I reserve exploration for when I get all...

While Salem rode off to some towns no one has heard of, we three remaining Snails, filled with coffee rode our bikes, too. Hard! Really hard...

The Tim Johnson ride on Washington for Bikes Belong is underway. As the word got out and the first of many related emails began to cram my...

Hard to ride on. When you ride a bike, you try to strike a balance between the efficient way and the interesting way to get somewhere On Fri...

You may recall that two years ago Johanna and Brendan rode a long way . Since then, we've ridden other long ways, but this weekend, in ...

It's been a weird week. Last weekend I was in San Francisco for Lex & Dan's wedding. While there, my parents called to let me ...

I'll admit it's not the most fascinating news, but the parking lot at the West Hartford reservoir has changed. The big dirt parking ...

Today's weather was the best I've seen this year in Connecticut, so I put some new tires on my road bike, gave it a lube job, and he...

My trusty new cell phone, with a functioning camera (I'm not ready for a real one yet), and I rode around a bunch this weekend. As you ...

Rainbow Road and International Drive in Windsor look much better than this now. I think International Drive also has the biggest building in...

It was really difficult to ride on the bike path! Photo credit to Bill Owens of Granville, MA. So, Johanna and I went for a ride yesterday....