Ride With Mayoral Candidate John Connolly

Mike Ross already sent me his bicycle policy, now is your chance to figure out what John Connolly has to say about bikes:

From DotBike:

Please join mayoral candidate John R. Connolly on a leisurely community bike ride through Dorchester on Sunday, August 25, from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. This is the third in a series of bicycle rides John has done with cyclists to experience first-hand and discuss the good and the bad of bicycling infrastructure across Boston.

 

The ride will begin and end at Ashmont Cycles, 551 Talbot Ave, Dorchester. There will be time at the end to speak with John about your concerns, observations, and ideas for making Boston a more bike-friendly city.
Please contact Molly Brand ([email protected]) to RSVP or with any questions. Thanks!

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Coast of Hope Bike Ride

COAST of HOPE Bike Ride: 8am, Saturday, June 16 (Father’s Day Weekend): rain or shine. Routes include a metric century (100km/62mi) that goes through North Shore communities: Ipswich, South Hamilton, Topsfield, Boxford, Groveland, West Newbury, Newbury, and Rowley. Also features half-metric century (50km/31mi) and family-distance routes. Cyclists can pre-register online at www.COASTofHOPE.org. Same-day registration opens 7:15am, and the event begins promptly at 8am. Non-refundable $45 event registration fee ($25 for students), and cyclists are asked to make tax-deductible donations or seek sponsors (suggested fundraising amount of $95/rider). Event kicks off with annual paper crane drop with General Sutton ladder truck and ends with massages by Pax Massage and after-ride celebration hosted by Stone Soup with Ipswich Ale beer and soda. Donations benefit children and families supported by Bright Happy Power; people living with cancer and life-threatening challenges (cystic fibrosis, MS, and diabetes).

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Ride With State Rep Holmes

Tomorrow is the big bike breakfast at city hall, if you are riding from Dorchester you can ride with State Rep Russel Holmes on your ride.

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Massbike Spins Presents: National Train Day Ride

Got this in the email, looks like fun

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What: To celebrate National Train Day, we will follow the routes of parts of the Old Colony and New England Railroads south of Boston. Along the way, we will stop to look at a number of historic railroad stations and talk about the competition between the Old Colony and the New England in the years before and after the Civil War. And you may already know about Whistler’s Mother, but we’ll tell you about Whistler’s father (and uncle), too!

Today, parts of these old railroads are still used by Amtrak and the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad, but many of the branches have been abandoned, and some of them are (hopefully) in the process of being converted into bike paths. Some are even being considered for the restoration of passenger train service.

When and Where: Meet Saturday May 12, 2012, at 9:00 AM at South Station. Make sure that you leave enough time to buy your ticket and get onto the train to Walpole by 9:15!

The route is about 25 miles and most of it is pretty flat and level. We will average about 5 miles per hour, so the ride should be an easy one for most cyclists. We’ll stop to look at the stations in Walpole, Sharon, Easton, Stoughton, and Canton Junction. Many of these are by very important and famous architects. We’ll make a stop for lunch and will finish late afternoon, probably around 5:00. After the ride, we will take the train back to South Station. Helmets required. Steady rain cancels.

This is a MassBike Spins Ride

For more information contact Dick Bauer
857-540-6293

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Boston Marathon Bike Rides!

Its almost that time again, time for the annual boston marathon bike ride. Get up really early, leave boston well before 7am, when you get to the start line turn around and bomb back, you will be greeted with a totally open race course, no cars, no traffic. Its a great time, and I recommend everyone do it at least once in their life. You can read about me doing it a couple years ago here, and more about past rides here and here (a lot of these happen every year).

There is also a Midnight Marathon ride, that leaves boston the night before the marathon and rides back in the dark, also fun, but a totally different experience.

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