the beat bike blog

Last Thursday  Elijah Montalvan was struck by a car and he died on Saturday, September 1st, 2012.  He was riding at night, pretty damn late...

Wrapping up a seven day tour from Portland, Maine to Hartford, Connecticut, a triumphant group of cyclists finished with a 60 mile leg sta...

Several months ago, I endeavored to ride a difficult ride. It was to be in Vermont and go up Bald Mountain (in Westmore). Bald Mounta...

That's what she said! Sorry. Our blog is usually lacking in terrible humor (always lacking in good humor). Anyway, I took the f...

It's another one of those transitional periods when I start to neglect the beat bike blog. Sorry, beat bike blog. Limed fields in t...

Heya kiddos.  The Discover Hartford Parks Tour is Saturday, September 29th.  I'm looking for 6-8 mobile bike mechanics / route marshals...

I was hoping for a rope swing to get over the busway at Flower Street. A source has forwarded an email to the beat bike blog from the ...

You may recall that the Putnam Bridge was supposed to be refurbished and the DOT declared that a bike/ped lane was impossible. There wa...

Photo by Christopher Brown, used with permission // Looking north on Flower Street. During the winter-that-wasn't, James Redeker, ...

Dario sends this along to be posted: Dear Tony, Thank you for posting my response to the NPR segment dealing with bicycle cultur...

As the New England cycling blogosphere is no doubt atwitter, D2R2 was yesterday. As you probably want to know, my gearing was (463:2973...

Right now I'm lounging behind the Polish National Home enjoying live (FREE) jazz .  As Valerie might say, "More fucking jazz?"...

Since the spring, I've watched a fair amount of people drive the wrong way down one way streets in front of me. It's getting p...

If you’re looking for fun bike stuff to do in Hartford, there is an abundance coming up in the next month and a half.  Some of it even sn...

No one has written to the beat bike blog asking for advice about riding. Ever. It's not surprising, considering I don't really ha...

This past Sunday Kenny convinced me to ride down to East Haven with him to where we'd be placing a ghost bike as a memorial for Jeffer...

So, I've been interning at a law firm this summer. I've learned a lot and it's fun, in a pretend-to-be-a-lawyer sort of way. Som...

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 ...