the beat bike blog

Photo credit to someone who actually ran the marathon. This weekend was Columbus Day weekend as well as the running of the Hartford Marathon...

You know, if you do a google image search of "sand pit of death", the first picture is of a cyclocross race. On my way to work thi...

Saturday, Oct. 4 was a day of special events for the writers on this blog. Not only did many of us lend a hand to the greatness of the Sour...

So while some of us are tried to follow the political maneuvering related to the $700 billion bailout, or rescue package recently passed, ma...

We rode through the Park Rd. parade on the way to the river and saw this sweet bus!! Brendan has already summed up our clean-up of the confl...

The Connecticut could be worse. I've been carrying on about the Source to Sea Cleanup for a long time now. Those of you who know me, kno...

I might be crazy, but I have been using my powers of empathy recently to understand why, exactly, without fail, I see people cycling on the ...

OK, so technically, this photo isn't such a good illustration for this post, because the post has to do with taking full-sized bikes on ...

This isn't actually Carl's bike. But this is what it looks like. I work with a guy named Carl. He's a great guy. I think he...

I've been biking everywhere lately, just as the CCBA is telling us to. I've been doing all my riding on my Raleigh Grand Sport, an...

I would totally ride this drunk. A co-worker and fellow cyclist, Jennifer, brought something to my attention today. She is an Asylum Hill re...

The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/ 09/28/nyregion/connecticut/ 28bikect.html?ref=connecticut September 28, 2008 Recreation Road...

Just below this post, Brendan speculates (more cogently than he gives himself credit for) on how the impending financial apocalypse will tri...

Yeah, it's a Homestar Runner picture. Don't make fun of me. I don't like Maureen Dowd very much, but I seem to read her columns ...

(It's hard to follow a sobering pair of posts like those below with something lighthearted, but, well, here I go anyway.) I rode to Midd...

Bicyclist Struck In West Hartford By CHRISTINE DEMPSEY | Courant Staff Writer 9:49 AM EDT, September 26, 2008 WEST HARTFORD - A bicyclist an...

(Disclaimer: This is not a photo from the accident, nor is it from West Hartford) The Courant reported this morning that a bicyclist was st...

Every blog post deserves a photo, but sometimes it's hard to find something appropriate (and a picture of a Metro-North train or of the ...

. . . to hijack a truck? Not that I would ever do such a thing, but, you know, sometimes I get tempted: (Is this post bike-related? No, it i...

Nothing so exciting, really. Just a bike route sign in West Haven because we hadn't had a bike picture of the day in a while.

The sun sets behind the Arrigoni Bridge as we pedal toward Middletown. On Friday, it was that same old story: Car in Middletown, self in Har...