the beat bike blog

As you might expect, I'm really going after this thing cross country skiing whole hog. Yesterday evening, the Snails ventured forth into...

Fixed gear mountain biking is like regular mountain biking, but harder. It greatly expands one's likelihood of hitting feet on rocks, ro...

While automobile accidents remain the #1 killer of les enfants , I am unaware of any progressive legislation that would ban minors from ridi...

Work had me ridiculously busy and rather stressed from late November until the end of the year. While I didn't have adequate time to beg...

As you may have noticed, it snowed yesterday. Since I've recast myself as a skier, I decided to do some awesome skiing. Initially, to ge...

Another year that revolves around the D2R2. Sandy added a middle distance 72 mile version, but I signed up for the 112 again. I can't re...

Re: the poll. Road bikes, huh? I like going for road rides and all, but if you look at the tag cloud thing, mountain biking is the biggest t...

I headed back to Urbana-Champaign, Illiniois for the holiday break and managed to put together a rather slap dash multi-modal itinerary. To ...

The bike rack in the parking lot at the corner of Ann and Pearl Streets was a nice, albeit poorly installed, one. The "Wave" or ...

I don't know much about racing, but I definitely don't know anything about road racing. I have a road bike and it's about as old...

The first Bike Outside of 2011 is the bike of the future, at least according to some bike industry types. Electric assists are supposed to b...

I bought beatbikeblog.com (hosted here) last week, so the beat bike blog will be around for at least another two years even if no one writes...

This morning's Bike Outside is my first since November due to an extraordinarily busy stretch at my job. Thanks to Schleppi for filling ...

There was supposedly an awesome mountain bike ride at Nathan Hale State Forest today, but I couldn't go. I was working on my car. It'...

WARNING - Don’t park your spaceship in front of the Glastonbury Hilton Garden Inn. It may be removed from the premises by authorities for s...

For some reason, the New York Times has jumped on the anti-bike lane and "cyclists break traffic rules all the time" bandwagon tha...

Winter is now here officially. There was also an eclipse and meteor shower and volcano thing. So, I had a druid ceremony down in the meadows...

Hard to ride on. When you ride a bike, you try to strike a balance between the efficient way and the interesting way to get somewhere On Fri...

It's the tail end of fall and it's cold and dark, but there's one sign of spring: the Connecticut River is flooded. There are ev...