the beat bike blog

So, I guess Hartford isn't the only place that suffers from a lack of snow. I was reading Jill Homer's blog , where she's giving...

We've been having weird weather lately. All of my typically visited spots are wet and gross, because in Hartford we're in some kind ...

This Monday's Bike Outside features an old school Trek that was found locked to one of the several improvisational bike racks surroundin...

This past Sunday morning, with an inadequate night's sleep behind me and a pair of cargo bikes crowding the bed of a borrowed pickup (th...

WAY BEFORE: No fenders on the everyday bike. Quite often, back of coat or backpack coated in mud. Not unheard of to get some dirt on face, ...

This morning's Bikes Outside features a Mongoose MGX locked up in front of an apartment building across the street from the Broad Street...

I've been noticing a trend in Craigslist classified ads to declare any bike with name ending in "i" or "enze" Italia...

This blog is not really an arbiter of cool stuff, because, well, we're not that cool. All the fixed gear bikes or cyclocross (or whateve...

I've been reading and responding to the forum at Velocipede lately, largely so I can reasonably make use of their classified section wit...

I realized last week that I'm not sufficiently zen. I was once, when I did a book report on The Cat Who Went to Heaven. I made this boa...

Above: pigeon, dog, shoe and bike tracks this afternoon in Bushnell Park. I took a short ride today at lunchtime, passing through the park t...

I was hoping to find something that could tie in to the winter Olympics, Presidents Day or Valentines Day for this Monday's Bikes Outsid...

It's a beautiful day today; happy Valentine's Day! Yesterday, Salem and I rode up to Congamond to spectate the NEMBA ice race thingy...

In October I walked into a bicycle and sandwich shop in Provincetown, almost as an afterthought before leaving town. It was a blustery day i...

Should there be any readers who wish to be riders Saturday, Brendan and I will be pedaling up to the NEMBA ice races on Lake Congamond. http...

Handcuffs for bike locks are as common as rusty fenders here in Key West; but this awesomely strange combination of handlebar and bar ends i...