the beat bike blog

Last Tuesday afternoon greeted me with a combination of mild weather and several errands to run. I had some potential carpentry work to scou...

Ok ok. I think the world is passable enough so that we can do that thing we were going to do a long time ago. This time, the ride will al...

I'm sure everyone is really interested in what my final determination was on the gloves. The new ones I bought from REI were not goo...

Just a short errand ride this morning.  My route was prescribed by the unnoticed ejection of my cable lock the night before while riding ho...

If you've traveled the hockanum river trail in east hartford from the mouth to kahoots, you've probably noticed the little cabin un...

Good. Bad. Unknown. Gloves are important. Some people say mittens are important, but I think mittens are for five year olds. It was a ...

Salem and I went out for a snowy ride on Saturday during the first real snow storm since Halloween.  We followed the Hockanum trail...

True to form, I went skiing this weekend. There wasn't a ton of snow. Well, I guess there was way more than a ton of snow, but not a l...

Someone stole a strange looking extracycle in East Hartford and now its owner can't haul things around anymore. Using something called c...

I cannot overstate how pretty it was!   We got a little bit of snow and it was a beautiful day. So, I went to Case and Gay City. There...

In a car, I stop at stop signs and red lights. For many drivers around here, that isn't a very popular habit. I used to be against ...

Brendan and I headed out for a mixed media ride on Saturday.  Starting out down Main Street East Hartford, some a-hole driving a Porche Caye...

When you nail a pothole that should have been fixed five years ago and wonder who to complain to (besides your friends and at The Beat Bike ...

**** Bike Move rescheduled for Saturday, Feb 4th.  My closing got delayed. **** Time to show what you're made of Hartford.  I've ...

Hartford's downtown is not that big. I think it's like two square miles or something tiny. I worked in it for awhile and would r...

Global warming has its upside in Connecticut.  Was riding in a t-shirt today and got a full winter dose of vitamin D.  Meandered over to th...

Want a job involving a bike, but don't want to work in a bike shop or be a courier? Be executive director of Bike Walk CT. See the p...

I like the Hockanum River. Its watershed has a website and I just realized that it also hosts a canoe and kayak race in April . I don...

Like liquor stores, I got a second New Year's Day yesterday. So, I went to Nassahegan for the second time since tenth grade. I've ...

I bought a folding saw last week, because I want to become beloved for my trail maintenance. I started clearing the trail that runs throu...

Much of my Christmas week was spent in a rented Toyota Corolla driving to Michigan to visit family, including a trip “Up North” to see...

The world makes little sense to me.  But, a nice Christmas Eve (and Hanukkah) bike ride to Berlin Bike and back through Watrous Park (the be...

Go Stybar!

Nothing says welcome to Hartford like a hastily abandoned pair of white hooker boots (size 11!) and an ATV on the sidewalk.  This morning I ...

Tony & Ken's ghost bikes have received a big response (in a somber way) and the Courant wrote a thoughtful editorial about it. S...

The ride from Hartford to New Britain for the annual Bike Walk Connecticut dinner could have been worse. But, it could have been much easie...