the beat bike blog

Studying for the bar exam has cut into the amount of time I allocated to do fun stuff. While writing beat bike blog posts doesn't really...

If you've ever gone passed the DMV in Plainville, you end up in a weird place. I went there one time in high school with my friend...

I was thinking about heading over to Fishers Island for a weekend to visit a friend working in a summer seasonal job.  It looks like the Fi...

Some say that mowing is an activity for lumpen conformist suburbanites who believes in marketing mumbo jumbo. I heartily disagree. I lo...

I went to that great state of Vermont this weekend as I enjoy doing. I canoed, I plumbed, I mowed, I walked, I grilled, I attempted to ...

This came to me today while I was riding home on Main Street East Hartford.  I noticed a bicycle lying in the back of a full size pickup tru...

Tire pile Apparently, there's a bike swap meet sponsored by the Wethersfield High Bike Club in June and it comes with free coffee i...

East Hartford Bike to Work. Many of these folks cycled over from West Hartford. Living in Connecticut and riding a bicycle for 90% of my...

Editor's note: I have always been a big fan of Stone Field Sculpture. Some of my earliest memories of Hartford are of me climbing u...

Doing my part and fixing the bridge to the Leadership Trail. I know that it's cool to say that you like Keney Park. It's the ed...

AAA (the American Automobile Association) has not generally been known as an ally of cyclists. They've lobbied against bike infra...

Bike to Work.  Bicycle skills.  Dinner and Bikes.  The next couple of weeks brings a critical mass of bicycle based activity and I'll be...

I don't know anything about downhill. I go on pinkbike sometimes, but I can't figure it what those people are talking about. T...

I was in Keney Park this evening meeting with its Friends about the proposed mountain bike trail. It was a very good meeting. We're...

Tony and I will be teaching our next Traffic Skills 101 class on Sunday, May 18 in Canton, CT. Register here !

I haven't raced a mountain bike in awhile. The last time I did that was at the Circumburke. That was a pretty high note, because I wo...

This is the truck. Only 1 of 4 wheels remain on the driveway, so your highest possible grade would be 25%. You definitely failed, dude. ...

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...