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Wavy rim requires Many twists of the spoke wrench Truth is now beauty Building my new ride Odd, oversized parts require Trips to the tool st...

Friday was supposed to be a good day. I had taken one of my furlough days. At 10, I was supposed to go over to the Urban League and learn mo...

Even when he goes to his depressing London office: Update! I was unlocking my bike outside Bin 228 last night (because I'm fancy) and th...

If you live around Hartford or in it, you may have heard about the Get Motivated! seminar at the Civic Center today. Joe Montana, Laura Bus...

I have an affinity for the oddballs, orphans and survivors of the mechanical world. With bicycles, that means things that never sold well (p...

So, it's the midst of Hurricane Dan, there was a mountain bike race in Ashford at the June Norcross Boy Scout Camp . Though it must be ...

Weird crimes involving bikes in the Courant lately: Man Charged With 1999 Hartford Murder Homicide Probe In Hartford Focuses On Injured Bicy...

That title above should read something like; Being critical of the lack of a mass in Columbus, Ohio. It was surreal. Freaky. Inexplicable. S...

Any ride starting at 12:20am at the North Main Street entrance to Keney Park is pretty much expected to be interesting. I left Babaganush...

It was wonderful being back in da 'beat for a week; especially all the late night bike rides with friends i miss dearly. I forgot what k...

I finally got around to fixing my bike ahead of the Norcross Scurry on Saturday and in the process I was thinking about the weirdness of pa...

So, I have unilaterally decided that the beat bike blog is going to participate in the CT River Watershed Council's Source to Sea Cleanu...

Editor's note: I some how managed to delete the top couple of paragraphs of this post when I was adding the picture. So, I shall try to ...

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The beads on the Michelin folding tires I bought for my roadbike are a bitch to lever off the rim when I get a flat. When I go to slide the...

When I was about 24 I woke up to my mortality and all the possible ways I might panic, grieve, and be terrified. I am embarrassed about my b...

El Presidente de China was pretty good at getting companies to give stuff to the blog for reviewing , etc. One thing that arrived from Manha...

So, I went on and on about the D2R2 for a long time and on Saturday I got up at 4:30 to drive up with my old Stumpjumper to Deerfield and pa...

Being from small-town/rural Maine, I've always been a mountain biker. Since I moved to Connecticut, two years ago, I have only been mou...

As part of my comprehensive D2R2 training plan, I went to the hills of the north. Well, sort of. Part of my comprehensive training plan invo...

You may recall yesterday that I said that I was going to do a ride out in the Northwest Corner. Well, I'm not. I'm going up to Vermo...

It's the last weekend before I have to get up at 4am, drive to Deerfield, MA and ride the D2R2. I'm looking forward to it, but I'...

Return of the Scorcher is one of the movies on a Ted White DVD, which also contains the more talked about, We Are Traffic. WAT is a great d...

There are a number of blogs in Hartford and most write about news and politics. I consider news and politics to be work, so I have no desire...

So, that race in Massachusetts happened yesterday. As promised, Brendan raced Cat 2. Brendan's bike, however, had no desire to do that. ...

That was a lot of rain today. Also, that picture was not taken in Connecticut.