the beat bike blog

Since it started three years ago, I'd been interested in riding this thing called " Circumburke ". It's in memoriam ...

Every so often I wonder whatever happened to alley cats. Then, I get an email about one. Here is one such example coming soon to Hartford....

Not really.  We love Chris.  But I did take a compromising picture of him on the way back from Middlefield.  Although we didn't have the...

The gist of it is that the road will be closed to motor vehicle traffic, but the DOT should created a reasonable option, like a bridge,...

I went to Glastonbury yesterday and bought some apples and corn at the farm stand on tryon rd. Then, I rode home through the Glastonbury mea...

I feel compelled to give a shout out to Haywood farm in New Hartford, because they gave me a free apple yesterday. I stopped in wanting cide...

I agree with Brendan.  Fall in CT is a short, but beautiful time for riding - when it happens to stop raining. Friday I tagged along ...

When I was in middle school and high school, fall used to be my favorite time of year. I actually liked all those new England trappings of f...

Get out, make some noise.  Tomorrow (Friday) morning.  Put bikes and feet on the street.  West Hartford citizens are taking action. http://...

Envisionmess? Discover Hartford? I live in Hartford! There's nothing left to discover. What you really need is a canoe race. I ...

Open letter to folks that like to have fun, Get off your ass and ride both these great events in Hartford happening within a week of each ...

  When people started singlespeed mountain biking back in the Tour de France or the 1870s or whatever, there weren't really any si...

Some years ago, erstwhile beat bike blogger El Presidente de Chine (de Cine?) wrote about riding slowly . People were way into it. I do...

How long are cycling shoes supposed to last? I used to have a pair of Cannondale shoes and they broke after two and a half seasons. The ...

Last Thursday  Elijah Montalvan was struck by a car and he died on Saturday, September 1st, 2012.  He was riding at night, pretty damn late...

Wrapping up a seven day tour from Portland, Maine to Hartford, Connecticut, a triumphant group of cyclists finished with a 60 mile leg sta...

Several months ago, I endeavored to ride a difficult ride. It was to be in Vermont and go up Bald Mountain (in Westmore). Bald Mounta...

That's what she said! Sorry. Our blog is usually lacking in terrible humor (always lacking in good humor). Anyway, I took the f...

It's another one of those transitional periods when I start to neglect the beat bike blog. Sorry, beat bike blog. Limed fields in t...

Heya kiddos.  The Discover Hartford Parks Tour is Saturday, September 29th.  I'm looking for 6-8 mobile bike mechanics / route marshals...