the beat bike blog

It's that time of year again when folks at work look at the bicycle commuter with a head tilt and ask, "You didn't ride in toda...

I was looking for a good map of Nepaug last weekend and I stumbled upon this . Now, I pay for racing sometimes and sometimes I'll e...

People in New England were all "crazy weather" this weekend. It was justified, as Memorial Day snow is sort of weird. I had n...

I was reading on Doug's blog that his leg is better and he is back on the bike in the woods. That's cool. In reading what he w...

One time when I was 14, I went snowboarding. My parents got me a snowboard rental, lesson and lift ticket for my birthday. It was prett...

Can you catch the error in this photo? I didn't know what to do with myself today. I went for a bike ride yesterday and it was plea...

It wasn't good for finishing my criminal procedure homework, but I decided to go ride around on the snow and ice, because it is...

Johanna got me new hiking boots for Valentine's Day, because my heel has gone through the insoles (and below whatever the next laye...

It's been awhile since I wrote a really interesting blog post about transporting pasta to work. The reason is not because I haven&#...

I've been riding studded tires all week.  They sound funny and make me go slow.  I get over the slow going frustration by reasoning that...

Unless you live like 50 miles from Hartford, you should probably ride a bike. There are universal complaints about traffic, because mos...

I got out on my bike today for a little while. The packed paths and sidewalks at Trinity were lots of fun. After tonight's ice rain...

I spent the day shoveling, but before the immense snow fell. Wait. Strike that. While the immense snow was falling, I had a chance to t...

For some reason, those who ride the woods in the cold and snow, do so very early in the morning. So, afternoon riders like me never se...

Johanna is usually mad when I leave bike parts in the kitchen. However, I bought a tube of Phil Wood waterproof grease the other day beca...

The other day, I was all like: Ski ski ski! But, it was warm today, so I was like: Bike bike bike! While I couldn't go ride on the ...

I like winter riding and I like riding in the snow. I may not have a fat bike, but I've got fenders and I've even got studded t...

  Two inches of wet gross snow fell last night. I didn't want to let that deter me from having fun. So, I put a freewheel on my Col...

True to form, I went skiing this weekend. There wasn't a ton of snow. Well, I guess there was way more than a ton of snow, but not a l...

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&...