Cue Sheets

Bike New England routes diskClick on the link below to view 700 cue sheets from throughout Massachusetts, provided by local cycling clubs and Bike New England
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Over 4200 cycling tours and favorite bike routes are available on disk & online at the Bike New England site,  including  cycling routes in the Berkshires, the Massachusetts North Shore, Cape Cod, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Quebec, Nova Scotia, the Adirondacks, Lake Champlain, the Finger Lakes, and the Eastern Shore of Maryland, as well as cue sheets and route maps from cycling clubs from Virginia to Maine.

Direct online access: Permanent full page online access to the cue sheets directory is available for $15, allowing download of each individual page as a PDF document. This is a one-time payment for ongoing-access.

On Disk: For faster access, we recommend purchasing the entire directory on disk.  $25.00 disk price includes a password giving you permanent direct access to the up-to-date online cue sheet directory.

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Massachusetts Bike Rides Interactive Map

Click on the bike icons to view rides and download cue sheets for over 200 rides in Massachusetts

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2013 Charity Bicycle Rides in New England

Date Event Location
April 20 SpinOdyssey 2013 Norwalk CT
April 20 Rock to Rock Ride New Haven CT
April 27 Bike to End Hunger Huntington MD
May 4 Tour of Lights Groton CT
May 4 Bike MS Vineyard Martha’s Vineyard
May 5 Cycle the Seacoast Portsmouth NH
May 11 Lund’s Ride for Children S. Burlington VT
May 11 Le Tour de Shore Onancock, VA
May 11 Tour De Lyme Lyme CT
May 17 Long Island Heart Ride Southampton, NY
May 18 Breathe NH Seacoast Tour Portsmouth NH
May 18 Bike MS Bar Harbor Bar Harbor ME
May 19 Tour de Cure North Shore Topsfield, MA
May 19 Brain Tumor Ride Boston MA
May 25 Angel Ride Ashford CT
May 26 Lake to Lake Southbury CT
Jun 1 Best Buddies Challenge Boston, MA
Jun 1-3 Chesapeake Challenge Easton MD
Jun 2 Bike MS Windsor CT
June 2 Bikes Not Bombs Bikathon Jamaica Plain, MA
June 2 Ocean State Tour de Cure Narragansett, RI
Jun 3 Ride2Read & Walk Nashua NH
Jun 8 Ride for a Reason Holden MA
June 9 Tour De Cure Durham CT
June 9 Bicycles Battling Cancer Marlborough MA
June 9 Cycle Kids Lincoln MA
Jun 15 Trek Across Maine Sunday River ME
Jun 16 Tour de Natick Natick MA
Jun 21-23 Trans NH Bike Ride Colebrook NH
June 23 Cycle the WAVE Ashland MA
Jun 29 Bike MS Cape Cod Getaway Boston MA
Jul 12 Prouty Century Manchester NH
Jul 13 Memory Ride Devons MA
Jul 13 Tour de Cure New England Woburn MA
July 19 Tri State Trek Newton MA
July 20 Seacoast Safari Kittery, Me
Jul 20 Mt Washington Century Albany NH
Jul 21 NE Kids Triathon Cambridge MA, MIT
Jul 21 Ride for the River Keene Valley NY
Jul 25-28 Ride to Cure Diabetes Burlington VT
Jul 27 Onion River Century Montpelier VT
Jul 28 Cycle for Shelter Haverhill MA
Aug 1 Mass Bike Pike Tour Fitchburg, MA
Aug 3 Pan Mass Challenge Sturbridge MA
Aug. 3 Green Mountain Getaway Burlington VT
Aug 10 Great Maine Getaway Biddeford ME
Aug 12 Charity Treks Burlington VT
Aug 13 Blazing Saddles Century Byfield MA
August 24 Seacoast Escape Stratham NH
August 24 White Mountain Gran Fondo Lincoln NH
Sep 6 Three Notch Century Lincoln NH
Sep 7 Bike Maine Orono, ME
Sep 7 Coast to the Cure Gloucester MA
Sep 7 Kelly Brush Century Middlebury VT
Sep 7 NE Parkinsons Ride Old Orchard Beach
Sep 8 Ride for Angels North Andover MA
Sep 18 Berkshires to Boston Hancock MA
Sep 20 Cycle for the Cause Boston MA
Sep 21 Bike MS Berkshires Hancock MA
Sep 21 Wediko Century Ride Windsor NH
Sep 21 Harbor to the Bay Boston MA
Sep 22 Hub on Wheels Boston MA
Sep 27 Autumn Escape Plymouth MA
Sep 27 Tour de Pink Philadelphia PA
Sep 27 Braking Aids Boston to NYC
Sep 28 Rodman Ride for Kids Foxboro, MA
Oct 5 CF Cycle for Life Holliston MA
Oct 5 Tour de South Shore Hingham MA
Oct 6 Buzzards Bay Watershed Ride Westport MA
Oct 12 Dempsey Challenge Lewiston ME
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Willowdale State Forest Mountain Biking

Willowdale State Forest in Ipswich and Topsfield MA  is less than an hour north of Boston and has 40 miles of trails  and fire roads for all levels of ability and experience. . The eastern section of the Forest abuts Bradley Palmer State Park and the Ipswich River; the section west of Rt. 1 borders 100 acre Hood Pond.

North Shore Cyclists hosts group mountain bike rides at Willowdale. 

Date and Time: Sunday mornings  November  - December, 2012 until snow covers the ground.  10:00 am for beginners, first timers, advanced beginners and intermediate. 

Start: Meet off Linebrook road in Ipswich MA, across from the Marina farm field on the right hand side parking lot. Coming from Rt.. 1, this is on the right, well before Doyon school. map to start
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North Shore Century, Byfield MA

Did you miss the North Shore Cyclists Blazing Saddles Century in August?  Head up to Byfield, Mass and ride the great roads while the arrows are fresh!

This century ride with other distance options starts at Triton Regional High School, 112 Elm Street, Byfield, MA. Map to start

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Road Bike Rides North of Boston

North Shore Cyclists is a recreationmap of road bike rides north of Bostonal cycling club that hosts road bike rides in an area spanning from Wakefield MA into New Hampshire. Less than an hour away from downtown Boston, the maze of old roads on the North Shore offer great cycling through charming quiet communities, along the shore, through the Great Salt Marsh, and weaving through several state forests. Charles River Wheelmen (CRW) , a Boston-based cycling club, also leads rides in the area north of Boston, and the North Shore is home to Bike New England which publishes this blog.

The links below take you to the ride description, cue sheets, maps, and a RideWithGPS interactive map

Rides with start locations:

Minuteman Ride Andover MA
Rockingham County NH Haverhill MA
Ride to the Sea Georgetown MA
North Andover Ride North Andover MA
Newburyport from Hamilton Hamilton MA
State Forests cycling tour North Andover MA
Pigs Ponds and Potholes North Reading MA
Cycling north from Cushing Park Newburyport MA
Mothers Day Ride Beverly MA
Monday Night Ride Topsfield MA
Cycling Coastal New Hampshire Newburyport MA
Danvers Farm and Sea cycling Danvers MA
Nashua River Ramble
The Old Stone Walls Ride Ipswich MA
Cape Ann from Manchester Manchester by the Sea
Ballardvale Ride Andover, MA
Grub Sweat and Gears Topsfield
Ipswich to Boston Ipswich MA
Bagels and a BuffaloBoxford, MA
Blazing Saddles Century Triton School, Byfield, MA
North Shore Cyclists Saturday ride Boxford MA
Applecrest Farm Ride Amesbury MA
North to Great Bay Amesbury MA
Merrimack River Ride Newburyport MA
Cape Ann from Ipswich Ipswich MA
Salt Marsh Tour Ipswich MA
Coast of Hope Ipswich, MA
Salem from Ipswich Ipswich, MA
Riverside Cycles ride Newburyport MA
North Shore Tour de Cure Pingree School, Hamilton MA
Salem MA – Marblehead loop Salem Commuter Rail Station.
Ipswich Heritage Bicycle Tour Ipswich MA
CRW Spring Century Wakefield, MA
Crane Beach -Topsfield loop Ipswich MA
Plum Island Loop Rowley, MA

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Boston My Bike Lane: Display Violators’ License Plates

My Bike Lane  is a world-wide site where cyclists can snap photos of vehicles violating bicycle lanes and display their license plates online, along with  personal commentary .   Boston My Bike Lane has almost 20,000 posts, with several new ones being added each month.  One of the most ironic posts a few years back was Mayor dedicates bike lane– Mayor Menino’s SUV parked in the bike lane while he was dedicating it.  (He hasn’t made that mistake again.)

One of the worst violators may be Boston Cab.  Here’s a YouTube video of  a cab letting passengers out in bike lanes, almost “dooring” cyclists. The top offender (captured on camera three times) is a FedEx truck with license plate M96639

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Massachusetts state bicycle transportation plan

Massachusetts developed a State Bicycle Transportation Plan which identifies future and existing cross-state routes.  Some follow US Bicycle Route  (USBR) corridors and others are parts of proposed or existing rail trails.  The Bicycle and Pedestrian Office and Department of Conservation and Recreation identified USBR 1 as their priority route and was scheduled to begin route development in 2011. For more information or to volunteer, email Josh Lehman, Bicycle-Pedestrian Program Coordinator.

This site is a service of Bike New England.

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Southeast Massachusetts Bikeways

The Southeastern Massachusetts Bicycle Plan is a component of the 2012 Regional Transportation Plan. View an interactive Google Map of Bikeways in Southeast Massachusetts which displays the bicycling infrastructure component of the plan, including the South Coast Bikeway and the East Coast Greenway portions. These two bikeways are the most important bicycling infrastructure components in this region. For more information contact Adam Recchia at arecchia@srpedd.org

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Alewife Brook Reservation

Alewife Brook Reservation is a 120-acre natural area that includes the Little River, wetlands,  wooded upland and meadow area and two ponds. The reservation is adjacent to the MBTA Alewife Station at the northern terminus of the MBTA Red Line in Cambridge.

The linear open space that follows Alewife Brook through the towns of Arlington, Cambridge and Somerville, MA received funding for corridor improvement from the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.  A two-mile continuous walkway will connect to other existing bikeway and greenway facilities, including the Minuteman Bikeway and Fitchburg Cutoff Path.  Gill Engineering designed a half-mile  timber boardwalk that spans difficult terrain and wetlands areas and will be constructed of Ipe Brazilian hardwood and pressure treated Southern Yellow Pine.  The natural structural components will blend, aesthetically, with the wooded riverbanks and create a pleasant walking experience for pedestrians. Visit the Friends of Alewife Brook Reservation site.

This site is a service of Bike New England.

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