The Jingle Ride is coming! I hope you can join us for the happiest ride around: you and 100 new friends, many in costume, with motorists and passersby cheering you on instead of cursing at you :) See below for details ( Read more... )

This is a very pleasant route from South Attleboro MBTA station to the beginning of the Blackstone River Bikeway, entirely on quiet back roads and side streets ( Read more... )

Last Friday, the state Department of Conservation and Recreation finished and opened the last missing link of the Alewife Brook bike path, alongside Route 16 in Somerville and Cambridge.

Instead of having to negotiate a narrow dirt path, you can now walk or bike on a beautiful new boardwalk, just north of the Henderson Street bridge (map here). ( Read more... )

If I post some of my favorite cycling routes, will other folks do the same here?

Davis Square to Horn Pond in Woburn. The whole west side of the pond is an old parkway that has been closed to car traffic. You've got the pond on one side and woods on the other.

Davis Square to Lowell, the first half of which uses the Minuteman Bikeway and Narrow ( Read more... )

Bike to the Sea Day, June 12 ( Read more... )

There will be a neighborhood meeting this Tuesday, August 22 at 6:30 pm, to discuss extension of the Somerville Community Path from Cedar to Central Street. The meeting will be held at the VNA assisted living facility at 259 Lowell Street, just south of the bridge ( Read more... )

On another forum, someone posted this photo essay and description of the Blackstone River Bikeway in Rhode Island. I haven't been there yet, but it looks like the south starting point is a short ride from the MBTA's South Attleboro station ( Read more... )

I just moved to Metrowest (Natick, to be precise) and I'm always on the lookout for trails to ride. There doesn't seem to be very much around me, but one thing I came across online is the Bay Circuit Trail. It looks wonderful, and supposedly I can pick it up only a short distance away in Ashland. Trouble is, the BCT site seems targeted mainly at ( Read more... )

Last week, we (Dancingdeer, H* and I) wanted to ride. So we rode ( Read more... )

Just wanted to let everyone know about a trail I found out about the other day: the Nashua River Rail Trail. If you find yourself around Ayer, MA (out by 495/Leominster area) you should check out this 11 mile ride through the woods, up to New Hampshire. It's a really nice secluded trail, it was empty when I rode on it, around 7 pm Friday, and ( Read more... )