Join us for a nice fall ride to Somerville's famous annual HonkFest:  "An awesome annual 3-day free festival bringing brass bands from all over the United States and the world to Somerville for a celebration of music, community and activism."  We'll bike through Watertown, around part of Fresh Pond in Cambridge and on to Davis Sq. in Somerville, arriving around noon or shortly after to join the marching band parade to Harvard Square.  Once in Harvard Sq., we can hear a couple of bands, get a bite to eat, and then head back to Newton. Meet in front of the Star Market on Austin [...]

Join us for a ride to Jamaica Plain to the headquarters of BikesNotBombs (284 Amory St., JP) where we will join and ride with BNB's  final Unity in Community Ride of the season which is planned to go 11am to 1pm.  After apple cider and donuts,  the group would head back to Newton.   The BNB rides usually feature a large number of riders, plenty of music and a lot of fun.  This BNB ride is short (8 mi.) and will tour through Franklin Park and the Arnold Arboretum. Meet in front of the Newton Main library on Homer St. in Newton Center, and we’ll [...]

Halloween Window Painting Sat. Oct. 26th: Halloween Window Painting turns 25 this year! Kids in grades 3-8 will paint participating merchant windows in seven villages across Newton on Saturday October 26. We will start the anniversary celebrations with a costume and cupcake party for painters following the event on October 26. Then everyone is invited to join us on a celebratory bike tour to view the art across the city on Sunday October 27. Bikers of all levels are welcome.   Painters can still sign up to paint. For details on the event or to register, visit newtonma.gov/culture. Tour de Halloween Window Painting Ride Sun. Oct. [...]

Join us for a ride to North Point Park in Cambridge.  Most of this ride is on fairly new off-road bike paths.  We'll get to Fresh Pond in Cambridge via the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway, then on to the just-completed Greenline-Extension bike path (aka Somerville Community Path), then to North Point Park, and return via the Charles River bike paths. Meet in front of the Star Market on Austin St. in Newtonville, and we’ll leave at 1:00PM.  This is a family-friendly, “no-rider-left-behind” ride and all ages are invited, but all young children must be accompanied by an adult. Bike helmets are required.  21 miles round trip.   [...]

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 [...]

Bike Together Waltham (BTW) conducts group rides on the last Saturday of the month, and today we will join their ride, and meet and mingle with our biking compatriots in Waltham!  We will depart from Star Market, 33 Austin St. in Newtonville at 11:30 am Saturday May 31, and bike along the Charles River Trail to Waltham City Hall where the BTW ride starts.  The BTW ride then loops around the Warrendale neighborhood of Waltham, about five miles, and finishes on Moody St, where we will have lunch.  We'll then bike back along the Charles to Newtonville. This is a family-friendly, “no-rider-left-behind” ride and [...]

Newton Porchfest 2025 is here!   SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 12-6pm:  Auburndale-Newton Lower Falls-Waban Center-West Newton.  It’s free and family friendly!   Over 110 bands! More than 60 porches, backyards, driveways! All kinds of music! Check this web address below for the latest schedule information:    https://newton.porchfest.info/schedule/   Once again, Bike Newton will be leading "Tour de Porchfest".  We'll start out with a couple of highly recommended musical stops, and then after that we can decide as a group where to go next.  In other words, play it by ear!   Meet in front of the Newton Main Library on Homer St. in Newton Center, and we’ll leave [...]