| Title: | Bicycling |
| Notice: | Bicycling for Fun |
| Moderator: | JAMIN::WASSER |
| Created: | Mon Apr 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3214 |
| Total number of notes: | 31946 |
I live in downtown Boston next to Copley Place and I remember
when I lived in Northboro, the beautiful bike loop I could do
around the Wachusett Resevoir right after work when I worked
in MRO2.
Oh well...I was curious about people who lived in Boston and
rode a bike. When you want to go on a longer ride 30+ miles,
do you ride out of the city on your bike, or drive out with
your car and then bike? The Paul Dudley White Bike path is
a nice idea, but safety wise I have seen some pretty bad
accidents on the path, almost everytime I ride it, and if
you want to seriously hammer on your bike, the P.D.W. Bike
Path is not the place to do it.
So Bostonians and whoever else, how do you do your long
rides from the city?
-Arthur
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| 716.1 | ERLANG::ZORNIG | Fri Jun 10 1988 11:14 | 18 | ||
Well, maybe I'm wierd, but I just ride out from Boston (Back Bay).
Last weekend I went North through Somerville Medford etc. up to
Salem and then returned via the coast - Swampscott, Lynn, Revere,
Everett. Another one I like is to go south on Dorchester Ave. to
Milton then wnder off to the west until I get into Dedham, turn
North toi Wellesley and return along the north of the Charles -
Waltham, Watertown, Cambridge.
There are lots of variations on this theme, but one must be prepared
to ride in traffic at least part of the way. If you are averse
to that, you could follow the Charles River out to the west along
the bike paths (although the pedestrians and twits are often worse
than cars) and then use back streets to get out beyond 128.
Howard Stone's book "Short Bike Rides..." has some Boston routes,
but I've never used them.
-jz
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