the beat bike blog

. . . I don't know, not exactly shady, but questionable . Case in point, this ad from the eastern ct site. It offers a Dawes Lightning ...

There was some discussion on this blog last month about the overall driver/biker viewpoint-rift that exists which is demonstrated specifica...

Photo: I'm back to riding my Xootr Swift on the regular. Hooray! Ahhhhhh! So good to be back in good health and riding the bicycle again...

(Not Farmington) So I headed out for a ride after work today despite the nasty black clouds and rolling thunder. I worked my way over one o...

Does anyone know if they still hold that 'cross race in Southington? I've decided I want to shiver and do poorly in a new kind of ra...

So I'll be honest that this has nothing to do with bicycling (besides perhaps just doing the right thing) but I'm too furious and em...

before the clean-up! after the clean-up! This is the Sandpit of Death if you are riding a bicycle on the pedestrian sidewalk and bridge conn...

this is funny...but sad. encouraging or dissappointing?

Yes! Yes! Yes! This was a great ride on a beautiful night with lots of new people and another foray through our beloved Keney Park. Colleen ...

In Hartford, critical mass is about bicycling and bicyclists. We had over forty people for August's ride, and it was a diverse group. ...

Found this on one of my new favorite websites, Copenhagen Cycle Chic. Its how I dream Hartford will look someday, designated bike-only lane...

UPDATED THURSDAY, SEPT 4th. NO BIKES LEFT!!!!! all have been taken, but a parts bike missing....parts! thank you to everyone for saving a bi...

Photo credit goes to Bill and Kent. I don't know who they are, but I know where this is. It appears that summer is coming to a close. I ...

As I pedaled down a striped bike lane in Hartford recently, I was recalling some recent comments basically saying, for one reason or another...

cruisin' on my scaperbike!

So Borat and I have decided to award a thumbs up in the event that the general public does something that positively impacts a member of the...

Start friday morning with a ride to The Old State House for Bike to Work and enjoy a free breakfast of coffee, juice, bagels, bananas and o...

Like Brendan, I also was not at the Olympics. Yay, NYTimes.com China will surely destroy us all with their army of sleek, invading light wh...

Maybe bikes like this should be kept off the roads. I can't take credit for finding this , I found it on the very well-designed K-Wall B...

What's the headlamp for? I read an article last week about Igor Kenk. He was a weird dude who lived in Tornto, ran a dilapidated bike sh...

A while back, El Presidente de China had his folding bike stolen from his car in Waterbury. Despite the worldwide popularity of the Beat Bi...

I stole this picture from nytimes.com. I wasn't at the Olympisc to take it. So, the New York Times wrote a bunch about BMX in the Olymp...

My trip to the Radiohead concert was a smashing success. The music was great, the light show dazzling, and my seat was ridiculous. There ...

In the midst of all of our discussions about conflict between bicyclists and motorists I caught wind of this story from the West coast. Lo...

Pneumonia. Seriously. In addition to spending the first seven of my eleven days off feeling like I'd been hit by a truck, I haven't ...

Another letter in today's Courant offers a retort to yesterday's lette r to the editor which minimized cyclists' rights to the...

Its safe to say this bike shop has had a pretty shitty (and deserved) reputation for a long time. A friend recently suggested I stop in as t...

Do you disagree with that statement? Want to read more? Got something to say about it? Check this letter to the editor from Michael Kluczn...

On the blog we often discuss the issues cyclists have with motorists. Over the last week the discussions have gotten even more frequent as ...

For the bike commuter the prospect of rain has very different implications than for those who choose to drive to work every day. The automo...