Newton Group Bike Ride

Join us for the first "official" Bike Newton Group Ride of 2025:  an afternoon ride to the Somerville Porchfest.   Plan on meeting at the Star Market, 33 Austin St. in Newtonville at 1 pm.  We'll ride the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway, around Fresh Pond and arrive in Davis Square around 2pm.   We can spend a couple of hours checking out some of the (literally) hundreds of bands in the Central Zone, and then head back to Newton at approx. 4 pm, going the same way we arrived, or going via Harvard Sq. and the Charles River. Once at the Porchfest, it is bound to be a [...]

Be part of re-enacting revolutionary local history – on your bike! In 1775, on the night of April 18 into the wee hours of ApriI 19, militia members from around what is now Greater Boston responded to an alarm spread by Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott. The British were heading to Concord to seize militia weapons and supplies. Minute men from more than 20 communities, including Danvers, marched in some cases over 25 miles to stop the British in Concord and sparked this nation’s fight for independence.Can you imagine how much faster they could have made the trip to Concord if they [...]

Stay tuned for Newton Porchfest coming on Saturday June 7th from 12:00 to 6:00 pm in the villages of Auburndale, Lower Falls, Waban Center and West Newton.  Once again, Bike Newton will be leading a group bike tour of selected bands and porches, which we call the "Tour de Porchfest" .   As we get more details about routes and times, we'll post them here, so check back often! Thanks, BN Tour Staff