Middlesex Canal Historic Ride

Another great event sent in by Ron!

Saturday, October 3: 7th Annual Middlesex Canal Historic Ride (2009), co-sponsored by the Somerville Historic Preservation Commission, the Middlesex Canal Commission, and the Middlesex Canal Association.

Meet at Sullivan Square T station (to the right of the main entrance, by the historic canal plaque) at 9:00am.

We will follow the route of the old Middlesex Canal (1793-1853) to Lowell, with lots of stops along the way to see remnants of the canal, including some restored sections and the home of the canal’s designer, Loammi Baldwin).

We will get to Lowell in time to take the train back to Boston. 38 miles (but riders can also catch earlier trains at 20 miles in Wilmington or at 28 miles in North Billerica).

(info from http://middlesexcanal.org )

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Tour De Graves

TOUR DE GRAVES, Saturday October 25, 2008 at 9:30AM – MassBike is organizing a ride to some of Boston’s famous and lesser-known graveyards in honor of Halloween. Trip leaves at 9:30am in order to avoid the majority of ghosts, and will be about 15 miles and take about 3 hours. We will start from the Central Burying Ground on the
Boston Common near the corner of Boylston and Charles. For more
information contact Dick Bauer ([email protected])

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International Bikes Halloween Ride

Pretty awesome looking ride, be sure to check it out.

From the site

A very frightening tour of Boston, a 2 hour ride at a mild to moderate pace. Saturday October 25th starting at 4pm. Starting from 89 Brighton Ave Allston. This mellow ride will begin in Allston and roll through Cambridge and Boston. Following the ride until 8pm there will be a costume contest and refreshments at International Bicycle Center. Contest Prizes include a chrome bag and a niterider USB light.

Costumes encouraged. Riders of all abilities welcome, helmet and safety lights required.

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Tour De Somerville

Tour de Somerville: Saturday, October 18, 2008

Join the Somerville Bicycle Committee for the 16th Annual Tour de Somerville on Saturday, October 18th. We’ll meet at 10 am at Seven Hills Park, behind the Holland Street T entrance in Davis Square. From there, we’ll trace the entire boundary of our city, from leafy Alewife Brook and Tufts University to gritty Assembly Square, Inner Belt, and Boynton Yards. Occasionally, we’ll cross over into neighboring Cambridge, Arlington, Medford, and Charlestown, to see what the city limits look like from the other side.

The ride will be about 15 miles long, with a rest stop at the Somerville Boys and Girls Club’s Blessing of the Bay boathouse on the Mystic River. Redbones will provide refreshments at this stop.

A route map and cue sheet are posted at http://SomervilleBikes.org , In case of rain, we’ll postpone the ride to Sunday, October 19, same time and location (and we’ll announce that on the web site).

For more information, contact Ron Newman, [email protected], 617-628-8895.

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Ten Hills Of Brookline Tour

See Brookline open spaces on a Brookline GreenSpace Alliance recreational bicycle tour which will follow the path of Brookline’s 10 hills. The moderate pace on the gentle to moderate hills will be led by Ron Brown, treasurer of the GreenSpace Alliance and 14 year participant in the 192-mile PanMass Challenge. The 16+ mile route will start at 10:00 am on Sunday, September 7, 2008 at Amory Park, intersection of Amory Street and Freeman Street by Hall’s Pond Sanctuary, and end in the same location at approximately Noon. Helmets are required. For more information, contact 617-277-4777 or email [email protected]. Or see this nice flier (pdf).

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