the beat bike blog

The kindness of strangers.  You depend on this a lot during a bicycle tour.  Stuff goes wrong.  You get lost.  Trespassing happens – someti...

If you haven't been paying attention, I'm on a bike tour and not at all in Hartford.  That said, I'm keeping an electronic toe i...

The best part of bike touring is hanging out.  Stopping and spending time.  Taking in the scenery.  Breathing and enjoying the current mome...

The locks along the Erie Canal have free camping.  This was at Lock 30 in Macedon. Yesterday I went off script and turned south at Roche...

I screwed up and posted my latest tour report to my other blog - All Famous Together .  You'll find it there.  And while there you can r...

First – Did you “Like” the  Center for Latino Progress Facebook page ?  Please do.  That’s where we’ll make announcements about BiCi Co. an...

Update - For those looking to follow BiCi Co., there is a Facebook group to Like and Share.  The Fall Build-a-Bike / Earn-a-Bike program ...

It raining bicycles with a chance of infrastructure improvements.   Get out and ride.  Get others out riding.  Take a class.  Teach some you...

Starting next week I'm going to kick off an approximately six week bike tour from Hartford, CT to Southern Indiana and back.  It will be...

Before - Dead? Yesterday was a fabulous Summer Saturday in Hartford.  I spent most of the day transforming my crushed touring bike back ...