Wow! Were we busy this last weekend.

Friday we provided high quality valet bike parking for Bikes Not Bombs 25th anniversary fundraiser.







(these great images provided by Sheryl Lanzel (617) 756-8930 www.sheryllanzel.com be sure to check out her site)

If you would like to have our high quality bicycle valet service at your event contact us.

Saturday we had a booth at the Mayor Cup Pro Race. It was a great time, check out the video below, wow were they fast!



Congratulations to Boston and to Boston Bicycle Coordinator Nicole Freedman on such an amazing event!



Sunday we braved the rain along with other intrepid cyclists to ride and table at Hub On Wheels. The hardy members of Team MassBike rode in this annual event to support MassBike and Technology Goes Home.

If you enjoy the many great things that MassBike does you can support us, become a member, your support keeps us going!http://www.youtube.com/v/GBE_zDQGnyQ&hl=en&fs=1&

[caption id="attachment_268" align="alignright" width="215" caption="Celebrating the unveiling of the T's first bike cage in Boston, Transportation Secretary James Aloisi cuts a ribbon with (from left to right) Livable Streets Alliance Director Steve Miller, BRA Director of Bicycle Program Nicole Freedman, MassBike Executive Director David Watson, Secretary Aloisi, and Acting MBTA General Manager William Mitchell."][/caption]

MassBike Executive Director David Watson spoke at this morning's press conference officially opening the new bike cage at the Forest Hills MBTA Station. MassBike has been working closely with the T and other advocates expanding access to public transportation for bicyclists, and this is the latest in a string of improvements. The new secure bike parking facility holds 100 bikes. Forest Hills is the first station in Boston to get one, following last year's launch of the bike cages at Alewife Station in Cambridge. The T also announced that it has received $4.8 million in federal stimulus funds to expand bike parking throughout the MBTA system, including more bike cages at locations to be announced. "The T is moving from merely accommodating bikes to embracing bicycling as an integral part of the transportation system," said Watson. "Adding secure bike parking will encourage people who live a little further than comfortable walking distance to the station to ride their bikes instead of driving. This morning, I rode my bike two miles to Alewife Station, then took the T to get here - I want everyone to be able to do that."

Read more about this here and here.

[caption id="attachment_260" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Shane Jordan, left, education director for MassBike, talks to a participant at a recent bicycling workshop he conducted at Suffolk University. (Sacha Pfeiffer/WBUR)"][/caption]We made it on NPR last week talking about bicycle safety. Click here to listen. The talk that WBUR came to listen to was one of our Commuter Workshops.

Our Commuter Workshops are a fast paced one hour lunch time talk that companies, schools, and other groups request. They cover everything you will need to know to get started commuting, including bike choice, clothing choice, gear choice, route planning, rules of the road, how to look professional, and a whole host of other good stuff. We even have a winter version for you intrepid riders who want to learn how to commute year round. Check out more about commuter workshops here. If you would like to request a commuter workshop use our handy new contact form here.

MassBike has been around for over 30 years, and our previous website was almost as old (while our previous website was good when it was built it is now about 1000 in internet years), so we are sprucing things up around here, adding things like comments, rss feeds, google calendars, blogs, twitter, facebook, and a whole lot more!

Please pardon our chain grease while we move the content from our old website. You may notice that some links still lead back to the old website, we left them in on purpose, over the next couple of days we will be moving all that information over bit by bit and updating it to make sure it is the most up to date and useful information.

If you are looking for something on the old website click here to go to the old interface. If you need immediate help call our office at 617-542-BIKE (2453)

Let us know what you think of the new website here. We are still working out the kinks but if you find something very broken be sure to let us know that as well.