the beat bike blog

There was supposedly an awesome mountain bike ride at Nathan Hale State Forest today, but I couldn't go. I was working on my car. It'...

Winter is now here officially. There was also an eclipse and meteor shower and volcano thing. So, I had a druid ceremony down in the meadows...

WAY BEFORE: No fenders on the everyday bike. Quite often, back of coat or backpack coated in mud. Not unheard of to get some dirt on face, ...

Above: pigeon, dog, shoe and bike tracks this afternoon in Bushnell Park. I took a short ride today at lunchtime, passing through the park t...

Handcuffs for bike locks are as common as rusty fenders here in Key West; but this awesomely strange combination of handlebar and bar ends i...

Today 's Bikes Outside feature is my favorite thus far. Somebody obviously put a lot of time and care into decorating this cruiser-style...

Sunday mornings often find me on Clark Street, and subsequently taking a ride through Keney Park. It's a nice way to clear my head. I lo...

This Monday we have a couple of the bikes that stopped off at Jo Jo's for this past Friday morning's Ice Bike to Work breakfast. A t...

Today, I present to you one of my least favorite bike components ever: The welded-together triple crankset. I hate these for a couple of rea...

An appointment near our city's northeastern corner ended earlier than expected, giving me a few extra minutes to enjoy the ride to my ne...

Sometimes you don’t want to walk to the bar. Obviously (i hope) driving isn’t an option. I suppose for some reason you may choose not to rid...

I was introduced to the frightful joy of downhill snow biking in the mid- 90's by my friend Bald Matt in Queens. He had two old mountain...

I had a nice ride today. The sun was shining and I was happy to see a fair amount of bikes out and about in spite of the cold. Stoplight co...

The motley crew as an uptight rent-a-cop was trying to kick us out of Constitution Plaza! Well, thanks to the cold and the earlier rain, we ...