the beat bike blog

So my afternoon commute found me riding home in the pouring rain and to be honest I was fine with it. As some of you may know I decided som...

We may think it's a little hard in Hartford to bike, what with all the deadly sandpits, potholes, glass-strewn streets, poorly designed ...

After going through the sand this morning on my ride to work, I ran into DPW in Bushnell park doing some mowing and sweeping. A lot of the ...

The Sandpit of Death before last week's gorilla clean-up! I will replace with an up-to-date photo manana. The first BBB post about The S...

I broke my light this morning on the way to work. It fell off on Capitol near the Park Terrace intersection. The clip, so that I can clip it...

The second Annual CCBA Discover Hartford Bicycling and Walking Tour is this Saturday, September 13th. We had 1200 people ride the tour last...

Anyone who knows me knows that I am wrong more often than I am right. Nevertheless, I cling to the notion that my first impressions and gut ...

I know that we don't talk about professional cycling on here much, probably because we don't care about it that much. However, here&...

It was really difficult to ride on the bike path! Photo credit to Bill Owens of Granville, MA. So, Johanna and I went for a ride yesterday....

. . . 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...