the beat bike blog

Get on your bikes and ride down to the Old State House  in downtown Hartford for some camaraderie and free breakfast.  I'll see you all ...

Put back up a couple of ghost bikes on Burnside Avenue in East Hartford.  The CT DOT removed the originals last winter before one of the ...

There aren't any bears in BJ and the Bear, but I saw a bear yesterday at the Reservoir. It was awesome. I was coming down the fence...

Surprisingly, the genre "mountain biking" is not that big in cinema. None the less, they still make a few of those movie with...

As you know, I like Vermont. Since there was no winter, mud season ended early this year and Johanna and I decided to go up there. That ...

Interesting week.  Hosted my first bike tourer, Stu from the UK , on Wednesday.  I just signed up for www.warmshowers.org , a reciprocal hos...

Ok, So they renamed the park "River Highlands," but either way, CT Nemba along with REI is hosting a trail clean up at the park ...

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A Dong , the giant Asian grocery store on New Britain Ave, is a staple in many people's lives around here. I can't really remembe...

Today was the De Tour de Connecticut  ( this is where it went ) and a higher power decided to give it the greatest weather ever. Unlike...

At some point, I was once again lamenting the problems with the trails at the West Hartford Reservoir. Unlike other times I'd done ...

May 11th @ the Wadsworth Aetna Theater.  Mountain biking documentary. Strength in Numbers . Holy bike culture Batman!  Guess the sell out ...

I wrote a post about how I don't write enough and then promptly wrote nothing for a few days. I am truly a hypocrite. I did some stu...

Brendan accused us of not blogging.  Perhaps we've been riding too much?  Such thing as too much riding? Before we start, I wanted to ...

As we approach 1,000 posts, I guess we've decided to stop writing. It's probably because after all these posts we (I) have reali...

Last weekend was Easter and that race with cobble stones. I can only do one thing at a time, so I spent much of the weekend doing family-typ...

With an early Spring and $4 gasoline there are welcome new rumblings around the water cooler.  A perfect storm that lines up with the effor...

I think some early beat bike blog post was about a coworker and me wondering around downtown, marking spots on the sidewalk and then making ...

Quick update: SB 445 didn't get even get called for a vote in committee. Looks like we can be as irresponsible as we like on our sid...

Remember how recreational land use reform was supposed to be a foregone conclusion after last legislative session? Well, it's not. T...

Mountain biking in the Hartford area means mountain biking with sprawl. Sometimes, trails you used to ride disappear completely and somet...

At first, I was going yo write a post about this ride I took on Friday in which I crossed a swamp by old newgate prison and then discovered ...

As you've probably noticed, the weather has turned eerily nice. I know that it's spring, but this is beyond those days in the mid 5...

You may recall that Tim Johnson and some other people stopped in Hartford en route to Washington last year . You can even go ride with t...

This has been my theme for the uncommonly warm Connecticut winter of 2011-2012.  Starting with a severely over taxed trailer trundling home ...