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Redbones 12th Annual Bike Party
Written by Boston Biker on Apr 21
Monday, May 12 from 5 to 9pm
Raffle drawing @ 7:30 pm
Raffle prizes will include T-shirts, Gift Certificates & lots of swag plus some sweet bikes:
* ANT Bike:
Custom Cargo Bike, value $3,000
* Landry’s:
Felt Curbside single-speed bike, donated by Landry’s Bicycles. Value $700.
* Urban AdvenTours:
Bike tour for 4, value $200
“No other event amasses such a range of cycling flavors: the fixed gear messenger crowd, the mountain bikers, the commuters, the three-speeders, the chopper element, the road racers, the freeriders. All gathered together for some fun, some BBQ, some brew, some music and some mayhem…”
– Phil Keyes, Executive Director of NEMBA.
Rain Date: May 19
Come for the party, come for the cause…
come for the prizes!
$15 gets you food & drink, bicycle valet parking, music, and 2 raffle tickets. Additional raffle tickets are $2.00 each or three for $5.00 – and you’ll want extras because our sponsors are donating some awesome prizes including the Grand Prize – a cargo bike from Alernative Needs Transportation! Also maps, swag, t-shirts, gift certificates & more swag.
Live music by The SAPS – 2nd Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band: we aim to please if the cause is true and the time is right.
Party proceeds go to NEMBA & MassBike
This looks like a pretty awesome event, I know I will be there.
More info here.
Add to Reddit. DotBike Green Dot Ride
Written by Boston Biker on Apr 18DotBike Green Dot Ride
Join us Saturday April 26 for a relaxed bike tour of Dorchester’s parks and green spaces. We’ll meet at the back (Giraffe) entrance to the Franklin Park
Zoo at 12:30. Check out www.dotbike.org, email [email protected] or call Andy at 781-367-9200 for more info.
This looks to be a very fun event.
Add to Reddit. Blue Hills Classic Race
Written by Boston Biker on Apr 16
The Blue Hills Classic offers racers the opportunity to compete on a challenging 7 mile, rolling rural course for a generous prize pool just a few minutes from Boston. The BHC promises to be a race sure to be on everyone’s calendar for years to come.
WHERE: Blue Hills Reservation
START: Houghton’s Pond
WHEN: May 4, 2008
WHO: CAT IV, V, Master 35+, Masters 45+
You can win real cash monies at this race so it might be something worth checking out.
More info here.
Add to Reddit. Beyond The Greenway: Earth Day Ride
Written by Boston Biker on Apr 11Saturday, April 26, Beyond the Greenway Ride (for Earth Day) 10:00 am, Fowl Meadow parking lot on Brush Hill Road just south of the Neponset Valley Parkway, just east of Paul’s Bridge and the Boston/Milton border.
We’ll head the opposite direction from last month,following Burma Road to the Bridge to Nowhere, then going south on beautiful Elm St. in Canton, ending with views of the Blue Hills and Boston from The Trustees of Reservations’ new Signal Hill Reservation. It’s not a very long ride, around 10 miles, but the first couple of miles are off-road through the Fowl Meadow section of the DCR’s Blue Hills Reservation.
Hybrid or mountain bikes are recommended, though Burma Road has a hard enough surface that it has been ridden with skinny tires. Helmets are required.
The ride is cosponsored by MassBike’s Metro Boston Chapter, the Boston Natural Areas Network, an affiliate of The Trustees of Reservations and the NGO force behind the Neponset Trail, and the Neponset River Watershed Association, which works to protect and restore the Neponset River.
If it’s muddy, we’ll take Rt. 138 in at least one direction, which would add a mile each way. We could also walk Burma Road, if it’s not *that* muddy. It would be nice to get back to the start in time to make the 1:30 talk about local impacts of climate change at the Arnold Arboretum.
If it is raining hard, we won’t ride at all. There is no rain date set, but contact me about another date.
There is more information at
http://www.masspaths.org/rides/SignalHill2008.html
Add to Reddit. Boston Massive
Written by Boston Biker on Apr 10
BOSTON MASSIVE is coming – 5/17/08. This will be an all day/all night partying, racing, dancing, drinking, freestyling extravaganza. The BBMA in part with some generous help from sponsors is going to be giving away 5 round trip airline tickets to the 2008 NACCC in Chicago at this event! Top male and female from out of town, as well as in town get tickets (along with a rep from the BBMA)! No registration fee, just tons of fun. The TRICK FOR TREAT finals will also be held at the after party, where the best fixed gear freestyler will win $500 cold hard cash!
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