the beat bike blog

The first third of my recent Northeast bike tour was on the coast and much of that portion was on the East Coast Greenway .  The ECG has gra...

Formulated these guidelines for Maine drivers while recently touring through that fine state. 1)  Things are really far apart so drive your...

I rebuilt my dad's old Mongoose Alta and rode out to Case the other day. While 34:16 is not too bad along the way, with flat pedals...

I rode up to Boston on Friday for my friend Joe's birthday. I don't know the area between there and here that well passed Vernon...

Get on your bikes and ride down to the Old State House  in downtown Hartford for some camaraderie and free breakfast.  I'll see you all ...

Put back up a couple of ghost bikes on Burnside Avenue in East Hartford.  The CT DOT removed the originals last winter before one of the ...

There aren't any bears in BJ and the Bear, but I saw a bear yesterday at the Reservoir. It was awesome. I was coming down the fence...

Surprisingly, the genre "mountain biking" is not that big in cinema. None the less, they still make a few of those movie with...

As you know, I like Vermont. Since there was no winter, mud season ended early this year and Johanna and I decided to go up there. That ...

Interesting week.  Hosted my first bike tourer, Stu from the UK , on Wednesday.  I just signed up for www.warmshowers.org , a reciprocal hos...

Ok, So they renamed the park "River Highlands," but either way, CT Nemba along with REI is hosting a trail clean up at the park ...

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A Dong , the giant Asian grocery store on New Britain Ave, is a staple in many people's lives around here. I can't really remembe...

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...