In the 1970s, 10-speeds were de rigeur. Two decades later, mountain bikes were on every biker’s wish list, and most recently, “city bikes,” single speeds and “fixies” are as equally common. Somewhere, perhaps amid piles of half-constructed bikes and welding machinery, the barons of the bike industry are surely wondering to themselves: What will the…

At the Boston Parks Commission on Monday, commissioners accepted and approved a proposal from the Franklin Park Coalition, DotBike and other community groups to officially allow bicycling in 527-acre Franklin Park. It hasn’t been properly researched as of yet, but it we’re taking a wild guess that the ban on bikes that was in place…

There will come a day when the Mass Ave gateway from Cambridge to Boston will not be where the bike lane disappears! Thanks to a massive long-term effort by LivableStreets and hundreds of Boston cyclists, the city of Boston’s top transportation and policy officials announced today that they will stripe bike lanes along Massachusetts Avenue…

Cyclists rolling down Commonwealth Ave between the Common and Kenmore Square have been getting a pleasant surprise this week: new bike lanes! The city’s design is quite innovative, and puts riders in a new position on the left side of traffic, instead of the right. It takes some getting used to, but it takes you…

The BCU is happy to report that the first step in a long road toward superior bike crash reporting in the city of Boston has been taken. It may seem a small task, but just adding the “bicycle” check box pictured here to the Boston Police Department’s database “Key Situations” search categories has taken a…