Welcome To The Revolution

Just so you know, the bicycle revolution is now in full swing…do your part and get out there and ride!

Drivers clear a lane, bicyclists are taking to the road in record numbers in Massachusetts.

In Cambridge ridership has soared 70 percent in five years, the MBTA is launching a “Bike Coach” to let riders bring their bicycles to beaches this summer and across the state bicycle shops are struggling to keep up with demand.

With gas prices hovering near $4 a gallon, the surge shows no signs of slowing.

During a recent bike-to-work week, activists hoped to get Massachusetts riders to pledge 50,000 commuter biking miles. Instead they got 125,000 pledged miles — more than half the distance to the moon.

For bicycling enthusiasts — once a subculture of bike messengers, car haters, cash-poor students and eco-activists — it’s beginning to feel like a tipping point.

“People are coming back to the cycle in a big way,” said Shane Jordan of the nonprofit Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition. “There’s a whole lot more people out on the street around this time than there were last year.”

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We of course are at the perfect apex of a variety of events that make bicycling more fun/smart/worth it than ever. Global warming, obesity, congestion, smog, asthma, high price of gas. You name it, it all points to one thing, get on your bike people!

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