the beat bike blog

I've never written a bike outside, so I'll probably break a rule or two. Pictured here is Dario's Wicked Fat Chance. He got it a...

As a reprise to Wednesday's snow escapades, we met up with another famous Glastonbury mountain biker, Al, headed to the part of the Mesh...

It was the discussion of banana portaging that grabbed my attention while reading Bike Snob NYC yesterday, but the part of his post that ha...

The snow is in a unique state right now. It's deep, but it has a really strong crust. It's so strong that you can ride on top of it,...

Normally, riding with Tim Johnson is tough. He's really good at cyclocross and we're not. Or at least, I'm not. However, at the ...

While my fenders aren't the best, they fend pretty well. When it's above freezing and melting outside, I stay pretty clean. However,...

Dreary! If you're a sporting enthusiast, times are difficult. The snow is sharp, slippery and painful and covering basketball courts, si...

There was a lot of snow on my roof, with 3-4 foot drifts on the southern side. With the recent rash of buildings collapsing in Connecticut,...

With all the snow around Hartford, the bike sightings have been down a bit of late. I was out of town most of the past week, so that didn...

Even this trail! Remember the MDC trails? Remember CT's flawed municipality liability law? Me too! So, let's go testify again, this ...

As you may have heard, the D2R2 now has a more formidable little brother, the Green Mountain Double . It's 205 miles long has 25,000 fee...

This morning's Bike Outside was spotted this past Sunday afternoon at the Hartford Public Library. With high temps barely into the teens...

CT Transit buses don't like bikes despite those front racks. Or at the very least, they don't like bikes in Hartford. Maybe they thi...

So, it would seem that my days of awesome xc skiing will be coming to an end due the bizarre ice crap falling from the sky. It was so great ...

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" These...

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...