the beat bike blog

I was putting some final touches on Johanna's Jake the Snake for upcoming abuse of it on the D2R2. I wanted to take it for a spin, so I ...

It began with what was meant as a short detour on the way home from Colt Park -- a jaunt along the paved Riverside path. But Saturday was th...

It was the bike nobody wanted. A barely-used Mongoose hardtail with a short-travel suspension fork and chunky tires that hummed loudly on th...

I got an email (press release?) from this bike shop in Avon. I complained once about bike shops and woman, maybe these guys are trying to re...

Connecticut's primary came and went this past week. The barrage of robo-calls has had a brief lull, and a sense of impending underwhelm ...

Now that primary season is over, we can focus our undivided attention on the D2R2. Last year's debacle weighs heavily on me. I wonder if...

When I ride to work through Trinity, sometimes I jump this little gap in the parking lot by the field house. Often, there's a car parked...

Do you think about your left pinky much? I've been thinking about my left pinky a lot, because it's gone numb. It would seem that I ...

You may recall from the landmark beat bike blog post that Johanna and Brendan sometimes ride a long way . We did it again. This time we deci...

Following our recent excursion to to the hinterlands outside of the capitol city, we find ourselves back in Downtown Hartford proper for thi...

This week we are crossing a line I had considered with great trepidation and apprehension. For the first (non-postcard or vacation) time, th...

I was doing an internet search to find out some boring facts about bicycle usage, and the top website results all had something in common --...

I'm 15 years late to this technology, but I have a phone with GPS now. And, it can track me. I forgot to turn it on yesterday until seve...

It wasn't that great of a book. Anyway, I have an observation to make regarding the sanity and insanity of drivers in Hartford. From wha...