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Time and time again I sing my song of hatred to Amtrak, the cruel tyrant of the rails. If you read the news, you know that Amtrak has late...

So I was just looking at this post on the Wired website , which lists "Five iPhone Apps That Replace Bike Hardware" (sadly, none o...

Bianca recently directed my attention to the Brompton World Championships , a bicycle race held in England yearly, the entry qualifications ...

The New York Times has a standard travel article about a couple of rich guys (hey you're probably rich too! Check it out it's grea...

Honestly, I don't think there is a way to make 20"-wheeled bikes look tough. Wearing a suit while riding one is definitely not the ...

Last week, locked up at the rack at Home Depot; I spotted this bicycle; which, apparently, can work it, twirp it and make money money. This ...

I took a break from work today to ride to La Paloma Sabanera for a cup of coffee and some solitaire on my 2004 model cell phone which doesn&...

Well, let me explain: On Monday, my beautiful wife, my two impossibly handsome and charming sons, two of my co-workers and their respective ...

I have been gently teased for my inclination to rely on jury-rigged solutions and creations when it comes to bicycles (see, e.g., the adapte...

I get to write about a blog appropiate afternoon of sailing that actually involves a few bicycles. Sweeeet! My unexpected day on the water b...

Enthusiastic as I am about rail commuting and the construction of a useful rail link between Hartford and New Haven (and, well, Springfield ...

Do you know how hard it is to find a picture that is truly appropriate for a post about riding your bike to an outdoor jazz concert? Kinda h...

Key West's first alleycat race! And its gonna be tropical craziness! There's a lot of surprises in store for the racers and prizes f...

If you're unmarried, like me, you don't give much thought to your left ring finger. You don't point at stuff with it or don'...

This week, my eldest son, Max (pictured above), began summer camp, which is of no particular import to you cycle-centric readers, except th...

It is with regret to write about the memorial services for Allan Williams whom i met through the CCBA and all the work he did for the organi...

I've got nothing profound to write about, but I went down to the Great Meadow and the rocky hill and took some pictures yesterday. Also,...

Chuck Schumer, a Senator from New York (for whom I have voted, though not recently, what with how I haven't lived there for a while) and...

On Sunday, I took a mostly bad mountain bike ride. It rained for most of the time and was super muddy even at the beginning of the ride befo...

I received two texts from my friend Joel today. This is the first one: And, this is the second: "Made it!". Joel is on his way to ...

C.I.C.L.E. (Cyclists Inciting Change thru [sic]Live Exchange, which should really be C.I.C.T.L.E., but I can forgive them) is, by its own d...

We here at the Beat Bike Blog are always singing the praises of bike-riding, and one of the things we like to point out is that when you tra...

What's the reasonable length of life for a chainring? I don't know, but it's got to be longer than a year. None the less, this f...

Well, you have to win a contest to get it, but still, it requires only minimal effort: Some website called Inhabitat , which is "a webl...

Just over a year ago, some Waterbury miscreant having absconded with my Dahon folding bike after breaking into my (now deceased) Corolla, I ...

My mother, bless her heart, has a long tradition of sending me weird gifts. Not only does she never miss a birthday, Christmas, Hannukah, or...

I could have sworn that these meetings were already held last year or something, but this just arrived in my inbox: Don't miss the upcom...

Some of you readers maybe remember that our friend Dan Shoup rode from Michigan to Connecticut last year to come visit us. I guess MI-CT tr...

Our loyal reader will recall the Special Tour de France , an orange bicycle bequeathed to me by Chillwill upon his departure from Hartford t...

I just read this article in today's Times about a bizarre prison program in France that involves cycling. While the article doesn't...

Being as how la Casa Presidencial is a one-working-car-family since the untimely demise of my terrible, awful, no-good Ford Focus , when the...