the beat bike blog

With all the snow around Hartford, the bike sightings have been down a bit of late. I was out of town most of the past week, so that didn...

Even this trail! Remember the MDC trails? Remember CT's flawed municipality liability law? Me too! So, let's go testify again, this ...

As you may have heard, the D2R2 now has a more formidable little brother, the Green Mountain Double . It's 205 miles long has 25,000 fee...

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

CT Transit buses don't like bikes despite those front racks. Or at the very least, they don't like bikes in Hartford. Maybe they thi...

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 ...

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" These...

As you might expect, I'm really going after this thing cross country skiing whole hog. Yesterday evening, the Snails ventured forth into...

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

While automobile accidents remain the #1 killer of les enfants , I am unaware of any progressive legislation that would ban minors from ridi...

Work had me ridiculously busy and rather stressed from late November until the end of the year. While I didn't have adequate time to beg...

As you may have noticed, it snowed yesterday. Since I've recast myself as a skier, I decided to do some awesome skiing. Initially, to ge...

Another year that revolves around the D2R2. Sandy added a middle distance 72 mile version, but I signed up for the 112 again. I can't re...

Re: the poll. Road bikes, huh? I like going for road rides and all, but if you look at the tag cloud thing, mountain biking is the biggest t...

I headed back to Urbana-Champaign, Illiniois for the holiday break and managed to put together a rather slap dash multi-modal itinerary. To ...

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 ...