the beat bike blog

Ken doesn't ever seem to want to write blog posts here anymore, but with our poor writing quality, it's no big surprise. None the l...

Very cool. I wonder who's doing this. The park is the cleanest since I've lived here.

You may have noticed that there are no people in that blog post from yesterday. Johanna emailed me and told me that it looks like I went on ...

Per usual, I spent my summer vacation more or less in Vermont. In addition to riding around, I endeavored to take up fishing. Since, I al...

The other day marked my completion of 38 trips around the sun. While not the birthday party type, I'm more than happy to use it as a ...

I had the opportunity to be an in studio guest on the Colin McEnroe show this week to chat about bikes, bike culture, and infrastructure.  ...

While enjoying an otherwise beautiful family weekend in northern Michigan one of my uncles repeatedly heckled me about the gay pride parade ...

The weather was looking iffy on Thursday morning, but the sky held itself together for our sake.  Had about 50 cyclists check in, and the Ma...

Heads up.  Free food for bike commuters.  Thursday in East Hartford, and Friday in downtown Hartford.  See you there. Free water bottles an...

Colleen was run over by a box truck last year.  She died.  Twice.  But somehow with modern medicine and lots of donated blood she survived. ...

Today!  July 14th. http://www.charteroakcenter.org/index.php/2012/07/indie-fest/ Come out to the Charter Oak Cultural Center and catch ama...

Google had an interesting ad for me based on a search: Colnago Bikes at Walmart Walmart.com/Bikes·Save on Colnago Bikes at Walmart....

Connecticut government is much maligned. Rightly so, for the most part, but the General Assembly and Government got their shit together ...

photo: DirtRag Join some of your fellow Hartford bike folk this Tuesday evening at 7:30 PM for a showing of Klunkerz at La Paloma Saban...

Brendan properly celebrates America's Saturday by bailing before the good parts of a fixed gear century (or so).  I'll finish t...

July 4th, no matter what calendar day of the week it is, is Saturday. On such a hallowed day, it's important to show America how great i...

For machines that have been essentially unchanged for the past several decades, bicycles suffer from a remarkable amount of planned obsolesc...

So, we only had four posts in June, which is a low point for our venerable blog. And, that is forcing me to write another excuse post. Damn!...

As I continue not to write blog posts, my thoughts turn to other things. I've been working in City Place II and I'm impressed that ...

So.  Tomorrow evening (Friday, June 29th) I'm going to ride around Hartford and nearby environs to peruse some choice graffiti.  ...

The beat bike blog means a lot to me. Riding a bike means more. So, I've been pressed for time as of late and I haven't been wr...

I was on my way to my East Hartford community garden on Saturday morning trailering some fencing and posts (both dumpster dive items) when...

9/11 Truth.  Beat Bike Blog.  Our stickers adjacent on the Charter Oak Bridge railing.  Which group is more fringe? Has anyone met the nutt...

The first third of my recent Northeast bike tour was on the coast and much of that portion was on the East Coast Greenway .  The ECG has gra...