the beat bike blog

Good people of Connecticut.  Your bikes are once again lonely.  The bicycle also experiences seasonally affected disorder (bike-SAD).  I'...

When I pointed out the "fallsy downsy" house up in East Granby, Ken remarked that "fallsy downsy" sounded like a tech...

I've been belly aching to one and all about the warm January temperatures. Well, I got my wish: it's going to be cold this week...

Hartford and East Hartford IceBike to Work Next week.  Wednesday, January 16th.  A group of hardy winter bike commuters will be meeting up...

On account of running late and being sleep-deprived, as usual, I made a series of wrong choices this morning. First, the skirt I wore was no...

But in a good way! After work, I decided to see if I could go ride on the East Hartford boardwalk. I couldn't, too much snow. I meandere...

It was the discussion of banana portaging that grabbed my attention while reading Bike Snob NYC yesterday, but the part of his post that ha...

While my fenders aren't the best, they fend pretty well. When it's above freezing and melting outside, I stay pretty clean. However,...

There was a lot of snow on my roof, with 3-4 foot drifts on the southern side. With the recent rash of buildings collapsing in Connecticut,...

This morning's Bike Outside was spotted this past Sunday afternoon at the Hartford Public Library. With high temps barely into the teens...

So, it would seem that my days of awesome xc skiing will be coming to an end due the bizarre ice crap falling from the sky. It was so great ...

Fixed gear mountain biking is like regular mountain biking, but harder. It greatly expands one's likelihood of hitting feet on rocks, ro...

The bike rack in the parking lot at the corner of Ann and Pearl Streets was a nice, albeit poorly installed, one. The "Wave" or ...