Volunteer With MassBike

Volunteers Needed!

Contact Membership Coordinator Dorothy Fennell to sign up for any of these volunteer opportunities, or call MassBike at 617-542-BIKE.

MassBike Volunteer Night: Tuesday, May 13
Come to our office in Boston for beer, pizza and fun during our monthly volunteer night!

Bay State Bike Week Water Bottle Stuffing: Wednesday, May 14
Get set for “round two” of stuffing water bottles with schwag for Bay State Bike Week. Join us between 5:30pm-9pm on the 9th floor of Boston City Hall in room 937. Enter through the rear entrance on Congress Street. Food provided!

Ski Market Bike Swap: Saturday, May 17
The Ski Market on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston is hosting a bike swap to benefit MassBike. We need help managing a table at the event between the hours of 10am-6pm.

Redbones Bike Party & Benefit: Monday, May 19
From 4-10pm we will be at the Redbones Party in Somerville, and we are still looking for a few more hands to help out with bike parking and managing the booth.

Bike Bash: Wednesday, May 21
We are looking for some folks to help out with the Commuter Challenge closing party in Cambridge where we award those folks who were commuting all week. MassBike needs assistance with managing the bike parking.

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Ski Market Bike Swap

Ski Market Bike Swap: Saturday, May 17

Come buy or sell bicycles at the Annual Boston Bike Swap. Bike sales benefit the seller and help support local bicycling groups including Bikes Not Bombs, Hub On Wheels, NEMBA, MassBike, and Bay State Bike Week.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

9am-6pm

Ski Market

860 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

To sell a bike:

* Beginning Monday, May 12, bring your bike between 10am and 5 pm to Boston Ski Market
* $15 Bike Swap Registration Fee includes free bike inspection and consultation with Ski Market bike technicians to determine selling price. Proceeds from the $15 Registration Fee will be donated to support the efforts of Hub On Wheels, Bay State Bike Week, and MassBike.
* Fill out the Consignment Bike Form.
* Leave the bike. Ski Market sells it on Saturday, May 17.
* You receive 100% store credit or 80% cash back.
* Unsold bikes must be picked up by 6pm on Monday, May 19. After this time, Ski Market will donate unclaimed bicycles to Bikes Not Bombs.

To buy a bike: Just show up between 9am and 6pm on Saturday, May 17. Ski Mark bike technicians will be available to help you find the bike that works for you!

Questions? Contact Boston Ski Market at 617-731-6100 or email [email protected].

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Free Commuter Bike Seminar

Watertown Bicycle -Pedestrian Committee
presents

Commute by Bike:

The Fear, the Gear & the Cheer

· Ever sat in traffic watching the bicyclist speed on by and wished it were you?

· Do you go out for bike rides on weekends but feel intimidated getting out on the road during the week to ride to work?

· Are you tired of trying to get to the gym or feel unable to find a way to exercise every day?

· Is the high price of gasoline causing you to rethink that costly car commute?

If you’ve wondered any of these things, or just are curious what bike commuting might offer you, join the Watertown Bicycle & Pedestrian Committee as we present a pre-Bike to Work Week workshop on bicycle commuting, especially geared to Watertown. We’ll discuss fears people have about bicycle commuting and how to overcome them, the gear you might need, and what you can get out of the experience.

Try out an alternative transportation mode and find a way to both enjoy your commute and burn off calories.

Watertown Public Library

Upstairs Meeting Room

Thursday May 8th 7:30pm

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Bikes Not Bombs Green Roots Festival

Bikes Not Bombs invites you to the 1st Annual Green Roots Festival on June 8, 2008! This open air environmentally-themed event will focus on urban sustainable living and grassroots activism. Author Bill McKibben is a keynote speaker, with more speakers to be announced. Live music, food, and children’s activities will add fun and celebration to the information tables and educational presentations that will tackle the hard issues and highlight work in progress and ways for festival-goers to deepen their environmental stewardship. See http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/bat08. We invite you to bring an information table, and to propose a workshop (from large presentations to small hands-on activities) which you could lead or be part of!

The Green Roots Festival combines with their 21st Annual Bike-A-Thon, which brings together hundreds of cyclists who will end their ride at this festival. The festival is advertised to the general public through 7,000 postcards, thousands of flyers, our email news and website, and 16,000 full color pullouts in the Jamaica Plain Gazette. We expect attendance to number in the thousands.

Bikes Not Bombs has spent the last 24 years directly addressing inequality and environmental degradation with bicycle programs in the developing world and here in Boston, and they’ve created a very broad community of youth and adult participants, volunteers, and donors.

The festival runs from Noon to 5pm in the park in front of the Stoney Brook T stop in Jamaica Plain. This linear strip, the Southwest Corridor, was originally cleared out to bring Highway 95 through the middle of the inner city. Community activism in the 1970’s blocked these plans and instead brought us a park with bike and walking paths over submerged public transit as subway, commuter rail, and regional Amtrak. It is fitting to celebrate in this public land which represents perhaps the greatest achievement of the environmental movement in Boston in the last 40 years.

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