the beat bike blog

Hartford is a city with entrenched poverty in many neighborhoods and a low car ownership rate.  The city is densely populated.  Schools, hou...

The membership, teaching bike shop starting up at 95 Park Street has this thing called "Member Hours."  BiCi Co. members have acc...

If you've been following the blog posts while I was bicycle touring the US ( list of posts ), you'll already know that a community ...

I put together this list for those looking to catch up on the posts that I wrote while bike touring approximately 2,500 miles from August 18...

The majority of this tour has been solo with just a couple of days riding with other bike tourists that happened to be heading in the same ...

I have come back from my exile to inform you that the river is getting cleaned again! For the seventh (though not seventh year in a r...

The title for this article is not just the lyric for a 90’s pop song .  Signs, and their placement, make a world of difference. If you ca...