the beat bike blog

The amount of shattered glass and car wreckage on the streets of the City of Hartford is back up again. It seems to happen every year at thi...

I work across the street from the amazing engine of development that is Goodwin College and regularly take the short walk from Pratt & ...

There was a lot of snow on my roof, with 3-4 foot drifts on the southern side. With the recent rash of buildings collapsing in Connecticut,...

This is a stop sign. It means you are supposed to stop. I share this because I have had two incidents on two consecutive mornings where a mo...

Return of the Scorcher is one of the movies on a Ted White DVD, which also contains the more talked about, We Are Traffic. WAT is a great d...

carol's sweeeeet flyer...thank you!!!!!! Come burn off all that yummy food you ate the last two days! Hartford's wintertime critical...

Saturday turned out to be a beautiful day for a wonderful event here in Hartford. I have no idea what the turn-out was this year, but from a...

There was some discussion on this blog last month about the overall driver/biker viewpoint-rift that exists which is demonstrated specifica...

before the clean-up! after the clean-up! This is the Sandpit of Death if you are riding a bicycle on the pedestrian sidewalk and bridge conn...

Sprawl is a constant consideration of mine and a frequent topic of the discussions found on this blog. This is for good reason, as many of ...