the beat bike blog

When do you make connections?   In the shower.  Under pressure.  While meditating.  Mile 60 of a century. I think we all have different spac...

Victor Pacheco is a cool guy. You may have noticed some of his murals on and around Park Street, his giant guiro and tables at La Palo...

Sad?  Resigned?  Bored? Freedom or security? Day of the Dead Ambling around the less traveled Hartford by foot and by bike, one ...

I know that votes were tallied and it said I was supposed to go ride the D2R2 again this year despite my dithering. However, I'm too...

*** The  RAW Real Ride  has been rescheduled for Friday July 19th.  Similar timing, but there won't be fireworks.  The fireworks are on ...

Glimpse of a bear. Just discovered that my phone makes animated gifs if you take the pictures in rapid enough succession.   I went for...

Because if you can't, that's okay.  Regardless, I'll be riding around on Friday,  July 19th looking at notable urban ar t.  Hart...

Dario took the bait and here is the responding guest post.  Let's roll this idea around a bit more. *********************************...

I used to go out a lot. I'd go to events, I'd go to bars, I'd go to parties and I'd go to other things. Then, I started r...

I was struck by the Wallace Stevens stanza while perusing Real Hartford's latest photos of the Asylum Hill neighborhood.      O thin ...

The following just showed up in my inbox.  The topic is near and dear to your heart, and it's an opportunity to show up on a damn bike a...

Critical infrastructure in Vermont. Joel came up with this cool idea a few years ago of an annotated bike map for the Hartford region...

D2R2 is coming up again. Should I ride it? I can't decide. I haven't been paying to ride things so far this year. I haven...

Rolled around this morning, through the Southwest corner of Hartford.  Up through Cedar Hill Cemetery and by the huge Tilcon quarry.  Poked...

I lost the 8mm adaptor for my multi tool the other day and I was bumming. I emailed Pedro's and they sent me a new one free of charge. T...

I've been working on this  skatepark in Hartford for a long time. Our hope is that this summer will be our summer. Everything is in plac...

Just saw an announcement of a trail cleanup day along the East Hartford section of the Hockanum River Trail this Saturday, June 1st.  9AM-n...

People in New England were all "crazy weather" this weekend. It was justified, as Memorial Day snow is sort of weird. I had n...

Folks at work this week talking about their three day weekend were saying things like, "I'll finally get a chance to catch up on my...