Bikes Not Bombs Bike-a-thon 2017
by Bikes Not Bombs is a great organization based in Jamaica Plain. Each year it collects roughly 6,000 used bicycles and used parts around Greater Boston. …
Category: Cycling
My 2016 Year on the Bike
A while back, I decided to get back in the saddle and ride my bike more often. That continued into 2016, with both bike commuting …
Testing Myself in the Formidable 2016
Overland Base Camp sent out this call: “The Formidable is the toughest road ride in Massachusetts. Join us and find out why The Formidable is …
Seacoast Century
It was a beautiful fall day. So why not ride for 100 miles through three different states? I convinced a Christine to join me. The …
Pan Mass Challenge 2016
It started with pain. I expected to have pain in my legs. Ahead lay almost 300 miles to pedal over three days, to get from …
Biking the Streets of Newton; All of the Streets
Early in 2015 I decided to get back in the saddle and ride my bike more often. Since then, I have managed to tuck a …
100 Miles of Nowhere or 100 kM of Newton Bike Ride
I don’t need much encouragement to get on my bike for a long ride. Fat Cyclist threw out a challenge to ride 100 mile race …
Hub on Wheels 2015
Boston Bikes’s Hub on Wheels has two great features: (1) a ride through parts of Boston I would not normally ride and (2) a car-free …
Tour de Newton
It was a cool, wet, and cloudy day, but hundreds of people gathered across Newton to see all thirteen villages of Newton by bicycle. This …
Pan-Mass Challenge Day Two
Good morning Cape Cod! I was tired after biking from Sturbridge to Bourne on Day One of the PMC and from the New York border …
Pan-Mass Challenge Day One
Good morning Sturbridge! My legs were tired and my head was groggy after biking here from the New York border on the Day Zero ride. …
Pan-Mass Challenge Day Zero
I rolled out of bed on Friday and was 280 miles away from Provincetown. The entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts was between me and there. I …
Becket or Bust Bike Ride
With the Pan-Mass Challenge coming up, my training plan has me spending long hours and long distances on the bike during the weekends. The Boy’s …
Memorial Day Weekend Bike Riding
It was the first weekend of summer and time for some serious bike riding. I will be riding the Pan-Mass Challenge later this summer to …
Riding the Boston Marathon Midnight Bike Ride
While marathon runners were sleeping in anticipation of the race on Patriots Day, I joined hundreds of cyclists to bike the 26.2 miles in the …
Tour de France in Watercolors
If you like the watercolor above, there is a kickstarter project for a book of these. The artist, Greig Leach, is painting key scenes from …
Tour de Newton
It was a glorious early summer day. The sun was shining. The sky was blue. I was wrapped in a bright orange shirt for my …
Wheelmen
Lance Armstrong was one of the best cyclists in last 20 years. But his wins were built on a foundation of illegal doping and performance …
Hub on Wheels 2013
On Sunday, I rode in the ninth annual Hub on Wheels, Boston’s biggest bicycling celebration. The big draw for the event is being able to …
Viva Le Tour
Saturday is the start of Tour de France, as most of the world’s best cyclist queue at the starting line in Liège, Belgium. I covered …