the beat bike blog

While our brave blogging brother was getting ready to speak to truth to power on Saturday, I went mountain biking. I had to feed my parents...

Since America has presidents, America has holidays for its presidents. I get those holiday days off from work. So, over the last six days, ...

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 ...

At one point, I road through this! I guess there weren't frogs falling from sky or wads of mucus, but today was undoubtedly the grossest...

This is not recent snow. I'm a huge fan of Jill Homer's Up in Alaska blog. I think she's a terrific writer and an inspiring and...

Here is my last post involving snow and ice for many months, my apologies on its tardiness, I’m on island time now! Here I am on Krash’s ba...

I would definitely stop riding if I had to ride this thing. The venerable Bikesnob NYC once queried about what would make a cyclist stop rid...

I hate that Death Cab for Cutie song called "The New Year". So, we're deep into 2009 and there hasn't been a post yet, so ...

Ride on, patriot. Today's snow event makes this the ideal time to post this. If the ad embedded below isn't my most favorite commer...

Ho ho ho! As you may know, NORAD tracks Santa . I was watching their video of Santa flying and was surprised to see him take off from a sma...

This is Maine, but their snow is similar in composition to ours. We got our first snowfall of the season this morning. The South End was loo...