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Getting to Know Us
The Bicycling Committee offers a variety of rides, workshops, and events that are open to all interested cyclists — AMC members and non-members alike! If you want to see new places, improve your skills, and meet others who enjoy bicycling, this is the group for you. We offer interesting rides and weekend trips of varying lengths and difficulty levels including:
- Riding Skills Workshop and Bike Repair Workshops
- All day Bicycle Rally featuring routes ranging from 20 to 50 miles. Refreshments follow the rides
- Weekend rides that explore the back roads of rural, coastal, and suburban New England
- Local rides in urban areas in Boston and throughout the region
- Weekend long trips with scenic rides throughout New England
Our evening and weekend rides often involve refreshments afterwards and socializing.
Although you do not have to be an AMC member to participate, we hope that if you have a good time, you’ll join our club.
Rides are available at the easy/beginner through advanced levels. To find out more, see the “About Us” section below.
Activities
About Us
The Boston Chapter Bicycling Committee offers a wide variety of rides to cyclists of all abilities in the greater Boston area and beyond. We have day, evening, and weekend rides and weekend trips. We offer biking opportunities for almost every one.
Special Programs and Events
Bicycle Rally
45th Annual AMC Boston Bike Rally
Riding Skills Workshop and Bike Repair/Maintenance
The Bike Committee offers an annual Riding Skills Workshop that covers traffic and bike path safety, basic bike fit and adjustments and how to use your gears. Learn more and register at outdoors.org.
The Bike Committee offers Riding Skills Workshop which is aimed at providing novice riders with basic riding and traffic safety, skills and courtesy techniques for riding in a group on roads and bike paths, and basic bike adjustments for optimal fit and how to fix a flat tire. The Bike Repair/Maintenance Workshop provides hands-on training on the basics such as changing the tube in a flat tire to understanding how the basic components of a bike works. Learn more and register at outdoors.org.
Our Rides
Weekday Rides
We offer weekday rides throughout greater Boston at various speeds. Please review rides and register at the AMC Outdoors Connection.
Weekend Rides
Throughout the spring and summer and often into the fall, we offer weekend day rides as often as possible. The rides typically include around 20 participants, a leader and co-leader as lead and sweep, Ride With GPS coordinates, a lunch or ice cream stop and/or post-ride gathering. Routes are identified on ride with GPS and are provided to all participants.
Our Easy level day rides are usually 20 to 30 miles long at a 10-13 mph pace. Intermediate rides range from 30 to 50 miles at 13-16 mph and Advanced rides are over 50 miles at a 16mph plus pace.
Weekend Trips
Throughout the season we offer various weekend getaways that explore back roads in rural and coastal New England. Accommodations are comfortable B&Bs and attractive hotels.
Rides are usually in the intermediate range and some trips offer both a short ride (30 miles or less) and a longer ride (45 miles or more) .
Winter Rides
For the hardy cyclist we offer occasional rides in the colder months. On an outing up and down the Minuteman Bike Path or a moonlight ride along the Cape Cod Canal Bike Trail, cyclists stay warm with frequent hot chocolate stops.
Special Features
AMC Boston Bike Committee Meetup Group
Many leaders also add their trips to the meetup site, you can join and get alerts about rides there as well.
Click HERE to subscribe.
Bicycle Committee Meetings
Join the Bicycle Committee and get to know a small group of active bikers who have a lot of fun. We meet monthly from September to May and discuss ways to maintain and improve our biking program. To join, contact committee chair. We are now meeting via zoom on the 4th Monday of every month. All are welcome to attend
Bicycle Committee RideWithGPS Account
The committee has a club account with RideWithGPS where GPS routes for our favorite rides are stored. Any leaders can have access to the account
Contacts
Officers
| chair | Marjorie O’Malley | |
| Treasurer | Steve Dennen | |
| Past Chair | Karen Hall, Mike Barry |
Coordinators
| Rally | Peter Kilbridge | |
| Repair Workshop | Lamar Winters | |
| Riding Skills/Basic Bike Workshop | Mike Barry | |
| Webmaster | Jack Donohue | |
| Google Groups | Jack Donohue |
Committee Members
| Aliza Edwards | |
| Karen Hall | |
| Bruce Eisenhut | |
| Jack Donohue | |
| Ed McManmon | |
| Linda Haines | |
| Marjorie O’Malley | |
| Mike Barry | |
| Paul Noe | |
| Patricia Lynch | |
| R. Brooks Sherman | |
| Rosa Zhang | |
| Steve Dennen | |
| Valerie Paul |
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