the beat bike blog

For those of you that missed it, this past Saturday was the second annual Hartford Bike Tour which in over 1,000 bicycles took to the st...

So my afternoon commute found me riding home in the pouring rain and to be honest I was fine with it. As some of you may know I decided som...

We may think it's a little hard in Hartford to bike, what with all the deadly sandpits, potholes, glass-strewn streets, poorly designed ...

After going through the sand this morning on my ride to work, I ran into DPW in Bushnell park doing some mowing and sweeping. A lot of the ...

The Sandpit of Death before last week's gorilla clean-up! I will replace with an up-to-date photo manana. The first BBB post about The S...

I broke my light this morning on the way to work. It fell off on Capitol near the Park Terrace intersection. The clip, so that I can clip it...

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

Anyone who knows me knows that I am wrong more often than I am right. Nevertheless, I cling to the notion that my first impressions and gut ...

I know that we don't talk about professional cycling on here much, probably because we don't care about it that much. However, here...

It was really difficult to ride on the bike path! Photo credit to Bill Owens of Granville, MA. So, Johanna and I went for a ride yesterday....