the beat bike blog

The second Annual CCBA Discover Hartford Bicycling and Walking Tour is this Saturday, September 13th. We had 1200 people ride the tour last...

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...

Start friday morning with a ride to The Old State House for Bike to Work and enjoy a free breakfast of coffee, juice, bagels, bananas and o...

El Prez and I pedaled downtown Saturday night to the Carribean Festival to eat dinner and check out some music. We unexpectedly passed Krash...

The beatbikeblog’s day by day, play by play calendar for a mad busy week of great events. Wow. Summer is in full MF’n effect! Lots going on,...

I missed the CCBA general meeting last night due to a work shift, but there is much going on the next few days...the next week actually! Che...

I established a sweet homestead last weekend at the beach for four days and nights and had a wonderful procession of friends drop by for a n...

The sudden addition of pea-sized hail to the light rain distracted me from my book with all its bouncy pings and dings, especially on the me...

Johanna and I went to Vermont this weekend: This is not Savoy Mountain State Forest. This is some regrettable deforestation in Glover, VT. O...

The Beat was well rep’d this past weekend by a hardy group of current and former Hartford peoples converging in the rotten apple in what was...

The Aetna Viaduct is boring and lame, so I'm glad that's over. This weekend that just happened was neither boring, nor lame. In fact...