Bikes
New Harvard Students to Receive City-Mandated Bike Info
The resolutions requested that the City Manager’s office work with the city and local colleges to provide new residents and students respectively, with relevant bicycle safety information.
Cambridge Cycling
Ed School student Justin C. Hauver bikes along Massachusetts Avenue toward Harvard Square Monday afternoon. The Cambridge City Council plans to approve initiatives for bike safety around college campuses.
Not for the Faint Hearted
At first, only two men in their late twenties chat softly in the park, nursing beers as they stand by the hammocks. Slowly, more begin to arrive, bringing lime-flavored sports drinks, roommates, girlfriends, hard liquor shots, and bikes.
Endpaper: Like Riding a Bike
Trip, fall, stumble, I did them all. My legs moved in opposite directions, as though rebelling against my body. My family—myself included—all laughed at the incredible lack of coordination gifted to me.
PBHA Bike Sale
A PBHA volunteer asks for bids on a bike at the PBHA annual bike sale. The auction typically raises around $3,000 to fund PBHA’s programs each year.
City Council Discusses Watershed Protection, Cycling Promotion
The Cambridge City Council discussed the Silver Maple Forest preservation and a bicycle counter interface at their meeting Monday evening.
New Pilot Program To Keep Hubway’s Cambridge Stations Open Throughout the Winter
For the first time since the Boston-area bike-sharing company Hubway was founded two and a half years ago, Cambridge will keep its Hubway bikes on the road this winter season.
Heads Up
World Champion Trial Biker Thomas Oehler performs a stunt with Zach Walters '15 outside the Science Center. Students gathered in the plaza to watch Oehler in between classes Wednesday morning.
Harvard Awards Grants to Allston Nonprofits
CommonWheels—an Allston-based bicycle collective dedicated to fostering a community of cyclists—is one of ten Allston based nonprofits to receive a grant from the Harvard as a part of the Harvard Allston Partnership Fund. Last month Harvard pledged to extend the HAPF, which was founded in 2009 and has granted money to 20 nonprofits, by $500,000 dollars over five years.
Harvard Grad Student Raises Awareness About Bicycle Theft
Lulu Z. Li, a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, has created a website called Bikenapped, where people ...
New Bike Sharing Company Moves to Kendall
Just months after Boston’s Hubway opened its first bike station in Cambridge, Zagster, one of the nation’s oldest bicycle sharing companies, has moved its headquarters from Philadelphia to Kendall Square.
Hubway Expands Everywhere (But the Quad)
After a year in Boston, New Balance's bike-sharing program, Hubway, has expanded rapidly into Cambridge and Somerville. This expansion gives Harvard students a cheaper and greener, albeit more strenuous, alternative to the shuttle.