the beat bike blog

Everyone likes finding things.  Well, finding good things.  Finding things like bed bugs or dog shit on your shoe.  Those aren't good t...

It wasn't good for finishing my criminal procedure homework, but I decided to go ride around on the snow and ice, because it is...

...I am judging the shit out of you. Especially when I'm riding in the dark, 40F rain on my home from a long day at work.  You have to ...

Johanna got me new hiking boots for Valentine's Day, because my heel has gone through the insoles (and below whatever the next laye...

I have always disliked Sunday afternoons. They mean finishing homework, driving home, going to bed early, finally shedding bleary eyes...

It's been awhile since I wrote a really interesting blog post about transporting pasta to work. The reason is not because I haven...

I've been riding studded tires all week.  They sound funny and make me go slow.  I get over the slow going frustration by reasoning that...

Unless you live like 50 miles from Hartford, you should probably ride a bike. There are universal complaints about traffic, because mos...

Please contact your state representatives and let them know how you feel about these three bills currently under consideration.  I am partic...

I got out on my bike today for a little while. The packed paths and sidewalks at Trinity were lots of fun. After tonight's ice rain...

I spent the day shoveling, but before the immense snow fell. Wait. Strike that. While the immense snow was falling, I had a chance to t...

How I look without blood running down my face. As you no doubt know, I am totally up on the latest trends. I stopped riding fixed gear ...

It was a nice quiet day for a bike ride and as often happens, I saw some deer. Then, I saw the more deer. The second group, of three...

Yesterday, I went out to the secret trails in Manchester. It was transcendent. Everything was flowing right, I saw several otters swimm...

The other night, it was windy. It kept me awake, but I didn't hear a lot of things crashing to the ground. However, trees falling i...

I needed a washboard, so I bought one online. I figured no one sells them and I'd get a better deal if I bought it online. Ace has fr...

There are TWO bike centric events next week in downtown Hartford.  Just found out about the East Coast Greenway info / social yesterday. Tu...

I was thinking today that back when I used to drive more (~25,000 miles/year), winters were much more normal. I remember this because I w...

Good people of Connecticut.  Your bikes are once again lonely.  The bicycle also experiences seasonally affected disorder (bike-SAD).  I...

For some reason, those who ride the woods in the cold and snow, do so very early in the morning. So, afternoon riders like me never se...

Out in the Farmington Valley, if they're not trying to pass laws get bikes off the road, they're actively trying to run kids ov...

Johanna is usually mad when I leave bike parts in the kitchen. However, I bought a tube of Phil Wood waterproof grease the other day beca...

I know Saturday is still ~30 hours away, but I am doubtful that enough ice will grow in Wethersfield Cove for my much ballyhooed ice ra...

When I pointed out the "fallsy downsy" house up in East Granby, Ken remarked that "fallsy downsy" sounded like a tech...

I've been belly aching to one and all about the warm January temperatures. Well, I got my wish: it's going to be cold this week...

At some point, my mom read about how cyclists with GoPro cameras have caught hit and run drivers. So for Christmas, my parents got me o...

I went for a ride with Salem today. It was pretty typical: we wore wool, had old mountain bikes and we were talking about boards of asse...

 Not off the road in the cool mountain biking sense. This, from Simsbury Patch, appears to be the best reporting so far on the stupid s...

Bill SB 103 now in Transportation Committee: AN ACT REQUIRING BICYCLISTS TO RIDE SINGLE FILE ON A PUBLIC ROAD . We need a united action to p...

Dario joins us again with a guest post! I read a book recently that I think might be of interest to some of our Beat Bike Blog reader...

In furtherance of the notion that I'm a boring person, I had a dream last night about the beat bike blog. In the dream, there was t...