the beat bike blog

First - December 1st is Giving Tuesday.  Consider the Center for Latino Progress and their new project, BiCi Co. when you give back.  Ha...

Before - Dead? Yesterday was a fabulous Summer Saturday in Hartford.  I spent most of the day transforming my crushed touring bike back ...

It is once again the sad time in during the year when I have exams. It's sad, because I have free time all of the sudden, but it'...

I'm not much of technical rider, anybody can attest to that. Heck, I can't even ride backwards . Though like people better than ...

I think in the 1990s, 117% of all bikes sold in the US were mountain bikes. Everybody was mountain biking and therefore not everyone mountai...

I've never been to Seattle, but I'm supposing that we're having Seattlesque weather right now. Undeterred at quitting time yeste...

In the spirit of the Red Sox, I also had a completely bootleg opening day for cycling. Now, it's not that I stopped during the winter. I...

Public hearing season is almost done and there's one more recreational liability bill up for a hearing, this time it's before the ju...

Close followers of snow will note that there's about 12-18" of packed snow. With the addition of last night's much need 2"...

I did lots of things this weekend and now I'm going to tell you about them. The parts of cyclocross that are exciting on a bike generall...

The MDC's public hearing on the future of recreation on their (our) lands was last night. Unsurprisingly, everyone who spoke was in favo...

Lots of emails have been flying around email distribution lists that involve trails and land lately, so you've probably already heard ab...

MDC trail access advocates have launched a new site where you can learn more about efforts to fight threats to public access to the reservi...