Thanks to a nomination from the Boston Cyclists Union, Boston City Councilor At-Large Felix G. Arroyo has been awarded a scholarship from Bikes Belong and SRAM to attend the Velo-City conference in Seville, Spain. The City of Seville has built over 75 miles of cycletracks since 2007, increasing the ridership of its residents by a…

By Patrick Kelleher-Calnan According to Boston bike czar Nicole Freedman, bike share will “take us to the next level” in the quest to turn Boston into a world-class cycling city. Freedman has said bike share would allow users to rent bikes by the hour from stations around the city for a low fee and thus…

By Dan Pugatch There must be something strange in the tap water from the Quabbin Reservoir that makes the Boston area home to almost a dozen custom bicycle builders. Many have heard of Geekhouse Bikes, Seven Cycles, or Dutch Bike Co., but the Boston Cyclist Union recently spent an evening getting to know the new…

By Joe Connolly It’s easy to pick cyclist Mark Allyn out of a crowd, even one as sizeable and diverse as Portland, Oregon’s cycling community. Allyn, a computer programmer by day, designed and custom built a lighting system for his bike and was recently crowned “most visible rider in Portland” at that city’s “Be Seen,…