the beat bike blog

Envisionmess? Discover Hartford? I live in Hartford! There's nothing left to discover. What you really need is a canoe race. I ...

Open letter to folks that like to have fun, Get off your ass and ride both these great events in Hartford happening within a week of each ...

  When people started singlespeed mountain biking back in the Tour de France or the 1870s or whatever, there weren't really any si...

Some years ago, erstwhile beat bike blogger El Presidente de Chine (de Cine?) wrote about riding slowly . People were way into it. I do...

How long are cycling shoes supposed to last? I used to have a pair of Cannondale shoes and they broke after two and a half seasons. The ...

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...