the beat bike blog

Many are opposed and many are for disc brakes on 'cross bikes. I've ridden a 29er with discs, so I'm assuming it's the s...

Despite the terrible snow storm yesterday, six intrepid men with facial hair, five with old mountain bikes, four who have at one time w...

You may have heard that it is going to snow tomorrow. That will make the ride more fun. 10am Hyland Park on Fairfield Ave. Email me i...

"If I run into you, and you're on a bike, you're dead. My truck, we'll just bounce" Laughter. "They're so stu...

Oops, I did it again, brought another bike home. The real irony here is that I did it to pare down the number of bikes I have. Hear me out...

For the second Tuesday in a row, we had another unseason- ably warm weather forecast, so I went ahead and followed the basic formula that h...

I am tired of getting chased by people's unleashed dogs. For some reason this warmer weather has led some dog owners to think that th...

Read all about it .  Thanks to all the hardy, foolish, beautiful souls who came out and dragged my stuff six miles.  Couches, workbenches, a...

Last Tuesday afternoon greeted me with a combination of mild weather and several errands to run. I had some potential carpentry work to scou...

Ok ok. I think the world is passable enough so that we can do that thing we were going to do a long time ago. This time, the ride will al...

I'm sure everyone is really interested in what my final determination was on the gloves. The new ones I bought from REI were not goo...

Just a short errand ride this morning.  My route was prescribed by the unnoticed ejection of my cable lock the night before while riding ho...

If you've traveled the hockanum river trail in east hartford from the mouth to kahoots, you've probably noticed the little cabin un...

Good. Bad. Unknown. Gloves are important. Some people say mittens are important, but I think mittens are for five year olds. It was a ...

Salem and I went out for a snowy ride on Saturday during the first real snow storm since Halloween.  We followed the Hockanum trail...

True to form, I went skiing this weekend. There wasn't a ton of snow. Well, I guess there was way more than a ton of snow, but not a l...

Someone stole a strange looking extracycle in East Hartford and now its owner can't haul things around anymore. Using something called c...

I cannot overstate how pretty it was!   We got a little bit of snow and it was a beautiful day. So, I went to Case and Gay City. There&...

In a car, I stop at stop signs and red lights. For many drivers around here, that isn't a very popular habit. I used to be against ...

Brendan and I headed out for a mixed media ride on Saturday.  Starting out down Main Street East Hartford, some a-hole driving a Porche Caye...

When you nail a pothole that should have been fixed five years ago and wonder who to complain to (besides your friends and at The Beat Bike ...

**** Bike Move rescheduled for Saturday, Feb 4th.  My closing got delayed. **** Time to show what you're made of Hartford.  I've ...

Hartford's downtown is not that big. I think it's like two square miles or something tiny. I worked in it for awhile and would r...

Global warming has its upside in Connecticut.  Was riding in a t-shirt today and got a full winter dose of vitamin D.  Meandered over to th...

Want a job involving a bike, but don't want to work in a bike shop or be a courier? Be executive director of Bike Walk CT. See the p...

I like the Hockanum River. Its watershed has a website and I just realized that it also hosts a canoe and kayak race in April . I don&#...