the beat bike blog

Relying on one's self, physically, for transportation.  Periods of time spent with reduced commercial stimuli while directly experiencin...

I screwed up.  My BBB posts listed IceBike to Work on the wrong day.  We will be meeting up tomorrow, Tuesday, December 11th at Maddies in E...

On the evening of October 9, I drove my 1996 Buick Regal to East Hartford, handed over the title and keys and left with my registration and ...

It is once again the sad time in during the year when I have exams. It's sad, because I have free time all of the sudden, but it'...

Brendan left out this priceless photo of Ken K riding hands free and cheesing it up on our early hour on the Eel .  We both dropped early f...

Thus far, The Eel has never gone west of Prospect Ave in Hartford. Today, things got real and went to the New Hartford. Have you been ...

Eel postponed until tomorrow. Bad weather today and good weather tomorrow. Of course in doing that, the weather will be nice today and te...

If you read this blog, you know it's not very good. We're not very good at riding bikes and we're way worse at writing. Aft...

Seems like the BeatBikeBlog only gets a quarter of the page hits in the winter.  What's up with that you fickle nancies?  Perhaps we wri...

If the weather is crappy on Saturday, I think I rather go for a ride on Sunday. Speaking of Sunday, Johanna and I went for a hike on Sunday...

It's been awhile, huh? Let's ride another Eel this Saturday. Meeting 10am on the rocks at Hyland Park in Hartford . A 'cr...

I have a pretty high metabolism. It's mostly pretty nice, because I don't get too cold in the winter. I think it has slowed a l...

When I was riding with Dario the other day, I looked down at my bike and noticed that two chainring bolts were missing and the remainin...

Some people you eat turkey with and some people you ride to the causeway in Manchester with. Happy Thanksgiving!

As you may recall, I do The Eel. Well, now you have to watch and read this . And another thing, when should we do another eel?

My thoughts exactly. I did appreciate a man grunting at me to signify he was passing me on the sidewalk as I strolled along Farmington A...

Come on out to the 2012 Bike Walk Connecticut Annual Dinner and celebrate your purposeful and righteous appetite.   The food is good, the c...

I like winter riding and I like riding in the snow. I may not have a fat bike, but I've got fenders and I've even got studded t...

No matter what happens in the next 27 hours, Joe Lieberman will no longer be the senior senator from Connecticut. This has special mean...

Since it started three years ago, I'd been interested in riding this thing called " Circumburke ". It's in memoriam ...

Every so often I wonder whatever happened to alley cats. Then, I get an email about one. Here is one such example coming soon to Hartford....

Not really.  We love Chris.  But I did take a compromising picture of him on the way back from Middlefield.  Although we didn't have the...

The gist of it is that the road will be closed to motor vehicle traffic, but the DOT should created a reasonable option, like a bridge,...

I went to Glastonbury yesterday and bought some apples and corn at the farm stand on tryon rd. Then, I rode home through the Glastonbury mea...

I feel compelled to give a shout out to Haywood farm in New Hartford, because they gave me a free apple yesterday. I stopped in wanting cide...

I agree with Brendan.  Fall in CT is a short, but beautiful time for riding - when it happens to stop raining. Friday I tagged along ...

When I was in middle school and high school, fall used to be my favorite time of year. I actually liked all those new England trappings of f...