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- Petsi Pies Fundraiser
- Friday, March 11, all day, 285 Beacon Street, Somerville (on the Cambridge l
ine)
- Visit our favorite bike-friendly pie store; 20% of proceeds from the
day's sales will go to MassBike! Cyclists will also get a free scone with
your purchase (remember to show your helmet).
- Boston Bike Show
- Friday, March 11, 5:00-9:00 pm
- Saturday, March 12, Noon-6:00 pm
- Sunday, March 13, Noon-6:00 pm
- At the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St.
in Boston
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MassBike members get discounted tickets.
- MassBike Goes to Washington
- Wednesday, March 16-Friday, March 18
- We'll be lobbying on Capitol Hill with the League of American
Bicyclists to ensure funding for cycling improvements in 2005.
- Boston Bike Festival Ride
- Saturday, March 19, 9:30 am (Franklin Park), 10:00 am(Castle Island)
- Join the Boston Natural Areas Fund and MassBike for the first monthly
Boston Bike Festival ride of the year. We'll circle the southeastern
quarter of the city of Boston on this 25-mile, fairly flat ride. Bring
a snack, wear a helmet, and hope for weather warm enough to melt the snow
off the unplowed bikepaths we'll be riding.
- O'Naturals Fundraiser
- Saturday, April 2, all day at O'Naturals at 187 Elm St. in Davis
Square in Somerville
- Visit the Grand Opening of O'Naturals, a healthy and unique
fast food caf\351 and restaurant, which will donate 10% of sales that day to
MassBike. O'Naturals is located in the old Carberry's space.
- At 4:00 p.m., Somerville Bike Coordinator Steve Winslow will give a talk
on "The Somerville Community Path and Beyond: Bike Trails in Eastern
Massachusetts." (Unfortunately, rail-trail expert Craig Della Penna
will not, as was advertised in some other venues, be at O'Naturals
that day.)
- You may also want to stop by to see "Silly Kids' Songs" by Ken
Sheldon from 12:00-1:00 p.m.; Scottish fiddler Hillary McCabe from
2:00-2:45 p.m., and acoustic guitar and vocals by Dwight Richter and
Nicole Nelson from 6:30-7:15 p.m.
- Pedal Power in India and Guatemala
- Saturday, April 9, 7:00-9:00 pm at Bikes Not Bombs in Roxbury
- Job Ebenezer, professor
of engineering at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, will do a presentation
on his vast experience with pedal-powered machines in India and other
countries. His designs are convertible to allow the bicycle to detach
from the machine and also be a rideable vehicle. The pedal-driven machines
are small-scale mechanical devices such as grain threshers, corn shellers,
peanut shellers, grain grinders, water pumps, electrical generators, and
a variety of small machine tools. He also works on other environmentally
sustainable efforts including an urban gardening, wind power, and low
cost home construction techniques from unbaled straw and plaster.
- Additionally, the MIT student group has returned from their first visit
toMaya Pedal in Guatemala. They will
show slides and video footage from their experiences there, and discuss
the next steps in drawing up plans and engineering improvements and new
machines to help Maya Pedal.
- Refreshments will be served! Come and learn along with us.
- Call 617-442-0004,
email Bikes Not Bombs, or
see www.bikesnotbombs.org for directions.
- Boston Bike Festival Ride
- Sunday, April 10, 9:30 am in the parking lot at the parking lot at
the rear entrance of Franklin Park Zoo in Boston.
- Starting in Boston's famous, Olmstead-designed Franklin Park,
described as the "jewel of the Emerald Necklace," this 20-mile ride will
visit the brand new
park located where the Charles River forms part of Boston's southern border.
Then we'll ride over the city's highest point, in Stony Brook Reservation,
and travel down the recently opened Neponset River Greenway bike path. We'll
circle back through another Boston treasure, the beautifully landscaped
parkland and lakeshore of Forest Hills Cemetery.
- Optional: a follow-up visit to the wonderful Franklin Park Zoo.
- Led by
Steve Miller
- MassBike Harpoon/Blue Frog Social
- Thursday, April 21, 5:30-7:30 pm at the Harpoon Brewery,
306 Northern Avenue, Boston
- Take a break after work at MassBike's members' social featuring
Harpoon beer and delicious treats from the Blue Frog Bakery in
Jamaica Plain. This is your chance to spread the word about
MassBike: get in free when you bring a friend and introduce them
to bike advocacy!
- Regular suggested donation is $5-$10.
- Assabet River Rail Trail Walk and Cleanup
- Sunday, April 17, 1:30 pm in Maynard, on the corner of Main and Sudbury stre
ets
- The group will follow the rail trail to the north gate of the Assabet
River National Wildlife Refuge.
- Major Taylor Slide Show and Book-Signing
- Thursday, April 21, 7:00 pm, in the Saxe Room of the Worcester Public
Library, 3 Salem Square, Worcester, Mass.
- Andrew Ritchie, author of the definitive biography of 1899 world
bicycling champion Marshall W. "Major" Taylor, will present a slide show.
Learn how "the Worcester Whirlwind" fought racial prejudice on and off
the bike to become "The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World," as Major
Taylor titled his autobiography.
- Admission is free.
- "Major Taylor: The Extraordinary Career of a Champion Bicycle Racer"
by Andrew Ritchie (paperback, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) brings
back a forgotten hero, revealing Major Taylor to be one of the early sports
world's most stylish, entertaining and gentlemanly personalities. This
beautifully illustrated, vividly narrated and scrupulously researched
biography tells the dramatic story of a young black man who, against
prodigious odds, rose to stardom in the tempestuous world of professional
cycling a century ago.
- Andrew Ritchie of El Cerrito, California, a social and sports historian
with a special interest in the early history of the bicycle and early
photography, is also the author of the highly acclaimed social and
technical history of cycling "The King of the Road" and the forthcoming
"Bicycle Racing: Sport, Technology and Modernity, 1867-1903." He also
is co-coordinator of the 16th International Cycling History Conference,
to be held Sept. 8-10, 2005, in Davis, California.
- Autographed copies of the Major Taylor biography will be available
for $20. Proceeds will benefit the Major Taylor Association, Inc., which
plans to put up a statue of Major Taylor at the Worcester Public Library.
Major Taylor posters also will be available.
- Longwood Bike Nite
- Tuesday, May 10, Enders Auditorium, Children's Hospital, 320 Longwood Ave.,
Boston
- 5:30-6:00 p.m. Registration
- 6:00-7:30 p.m. Lecture and Panel Discussion
"Safe Biking in Massachusetts": Dorie Clark, Executive Director, MassBike
"Urban Biking 2005": Panel Discussion, Q&A
- Free admission, all are invited.
- Sponsored by the Sports Medicine Division, Boston Children's Hospital,
MASCO, and MassBike
- Redbones Fundraiser
- Monday, May 16, 5:00 - 10:00 pm, outside the restaurant at 55 Chester St. in
Somerville's Davis Square
- Your $15 ticket gets you bike valet parking, a Redbones sandwich and
sides (vegetarian available), a beverage & two raffle tickets at this
annual tradition, the kickoff to Bike Week and a fundraiser for MassBike
and NEMBA.
Last updated May 17, 2005 by
Doug Mink