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Today was the De Tour de Connecticut  ( this is where it went ) and a higher power decided to give it the greatest weather ever. Unlike...

At some point, I was once again lamenting the problems with the trails at the West Hartford Reservoir. Unlike other times I'd done ...

May 11th @ the Wadsworth Aetna Theater.  Mountain biking documentary. Strength in Numbers . Holy bike culture Batman!  Guess the sell out ...

I wrote a post about how I don't write enough and then promptly wrote nothing for a few days. I am truly a hypocrite. I did some stu...

Brendan accused us of not blogging.  Perhaps we've been riding too much?  Such thing as too much riding? Before we start, I wanted to ...

As we approach 1,000 posts, I guess we've decided to stop writing. It's probably because after all these posts we (I) have reali...

Last weekend was Easter and that race with cobble stones. I can only do one thing at a time, so I spent much of the weekend doing family-typ...

With an early Spring and $4 gasoline there are welcome new rumblings around the water cooler.  A perfect storm that lines up with the effor...

I think some early beat bike blog post was about a coworker and me wondering around downtown, marking spots on the sidewalk and then making ...

Quick update: SB 445 didn't get even get called for a vote in committee. Looks like we can be as irresponsible as we like on our sid...

Remember how recreational land use reform was supposed to be a foregone conclusion after last legislative session? Well, it's not. T...

Mountain biking in the Hartford area means mountain biking with sprawl. Sometimes, trails you used to ride disappear completely and somet...

At first, I was going yo write a post about this ride I took on Friday in which I crossed a swamp by old newgate prison and then discovered ...

As you've probably noticed, the weather has turned eerily nice. I know that it's spring, but this is beyond those days in the mid 5...

You may recall that Tim Johnson and some other people stopped in Hartford en route to Washington last year . You can even go ride with t...

This has been my theme for the uncommonly warm Connecticut winter of 2011-2012.  Starting with a severely over taxed trailer trundling home ...

When I was in college, I had a job. Actually, I usually had a couple of jobs. So, when spring break came around, I just worked more hours. O...

Tony did an awesome job organizing the screening of Bicycle Dreams last night at the Wadsworth. I mean, to sell out a theater in Hartf...

To keep everyone informed of their opportunity to harm themselves on this years Detour de Connecticut, this is your heads up that the route ...

Some Hartford voters As part of the beat bike blog's ongoing civic engagement initiative, we're reminding you to go vote again....

Today, it was a ride of commuter bikes for people who don't have a job to which they can commute. Also, I put the strava app o...

I'm not much of technical rider, anybody can attest to that. Heck, I can't even ride backwards . Though like people better than ...

I've missed the woods. It's not that I haven't been there. I have ventured into the woods and trails many a time over the past c...

It's like the world is conspiring to turn me into one of those singlespeed evangelists. Just when I think I've fixed everything o...

Apparently, after hundreds of years of oppression, we may be able to buy liquor on Sundays by the end of the year. See here.  I'm no...