the beat bike blog

I've been listening to the new album by Bibio a lot lately. It's called "Mind Bokeh." I had never heard the word bokeh be...

...are the wrong ones. Looking to build on last fall's Detour de Connecticut success, or as Brendan put it, "Nobody died," I...

Quick, while you still have the chance, sue the West Hartford Reservoir. Brendan and I rode there today. I had a good time, but I still do...

Public hearing season is almost done and there's one more recreational liability bill up for a hearing, this time it's before the ju...

I've played with the idea for a little while and I think I want to go through with it. It'd be a two hour race made out of Goodwin P...

Last fall, Dario, Salem and I had an appointment in Berlin. We rode there by way of Cedar Mountain. While in the spooky woods, we encounter ...

If you look really closely under the leftmost stack of power line insulators, you probably still can't see Hartford in this grainy photo...

It all started with the Eel. I met Brendan; I started riding with Brendan. Eventually, I rose to the lofty status of Beat Bike Blog contri...

Salem got a new bike. It looks a little like this Huffy that he once made me take and subsequently took back from me because he liked that b...

On her bicycle, an elderly person was able to escape the tsunami in Japan. I find it impossible to listen to stories like this without immed...

You know who's hiring? Kingdom Trails is . All sorts of summer employment stuff, including being a mountain bike patroller. Need somethi...

The stock wheels on my Yuba Mundo had served me well for the umpteen months I had been riding the bike full time, and I had not been particu...

I have a tendency to collect useful items from the side of the road. Granted, some of those items won't find their use with me for many...

While Salem rode off to some towns no one has heard of, we three remaining Snails, filled with coffee rode our bikes, too. Hard! Really hard...

There are lots of different types of bike riders, two of which are a) those who ride all year, and b) those who have the sense to ride only ...

As a devoted rider of the boardwalks of the Hockanum River, you can imagine how it pained me to be unable to ride them for nigh on three mon...

I can tell that Spring is almost here, because I've seen some the sprouts of some flowers pushing up through the mud, but it's not i...

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...

The Tim Johnson ride on Washington for Bikes Belong is underway. As the word got out and the first of many related emails began to cram my...