the beat bike blog

In Bro'd Rage Part I , I left off with my trip to Hartford Police Department HQ to file a report. I later sat down and wrote a detailed ...

The Trinity Admissions Gate: area of my initial encounter with the wrong-way driver. Last Friday morning, I was commuting to my job at...

I'm glad "mountain", "biking", "Keney" and "Park" don't have any s's in them, becau...

I have this bike that I don't talk about very much. It is a Kona Kula Deluxe from 2006. I bought it in like 2009 (2010?) and I rode...

I was looking at twitter this morning and saw this bizarre promoted tweet from REI. Why are all these clothes in the bike lane? What does th...

Mark Twain knew how to stir up his audience Has anyone heard about the Earth Day event going on at Hartford's Riverfront Plaza next...

The Connecticut River is supposed to crest tonight in Hartford and I am beset with writer's block for this paper I'm suppose...

It's raining today and in copious amounts. I have a rain coat and I have fenders, but that doesn't prevent my shoes, then socks and ...

Hiking is fun and so is cycling. Generally, though, the hike a bike is not something the people seek out. It's good for character ...

The Hockanum Trail is still a bit wet. This past weekend was an explosion of cyclists getting back out on the road after a long winter ...

I'm working on a secret project in Keney Park. In order to do research on it, my friend Marko invited me to go mountain biking in Ne...

*** Meet at 6pm on Monday, April 7th at Fire and Spice.  Hartford specific bike, walk, bus advocacy group is forming.  *** What is with a...

You probably don't read the beat bike blog for weather news. I'm starting to doubt there's even a such thing as reliable we...

I like cars. The reason I prefer bikes is that you generally can't drive cars in cool ways on public roads like you can ride bikes. Same...

Spring is in the air.  Tires are springing leaks, falling victim to the unswept glass shards that are indistinguishable from left over rock...

I wish I had more to write about lately, but there hasn't been a lot happening on the bike front. I suppose that may still be true...

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The question I'm pondering is, "Does car-centric infrastructure drive suburban development patterns and car-centric behavior, or is...