Welcome to Needham Bikes

Needham Bikes is an advocacy group that promotes the safe and widespread use of bicycles for transportation and recreation in Needham, Massachusetts. Our vision is to encourage Needham to become a bicycle friendly community by:

  • Creating safe and well marked bike routes through the town, establishing bicycle lanes and signs to raise awareness and increase safety
  • Broadening awareness of bicycles as a safe, enjoyable and healthy alternative to cars
  • Advocating for better bicycle facilities in public facilities
  • Supporting people who want to connect with other bicyclists in Needham
  • Providing resources for those interested in learning about biking in the area
  

A Rail Trail in Needham

Imagine biking from Needham to Medfield, 7 miles on a shared-use path through beautiful conservation land and over the Charles River. Needham Bikes supports the effort of the Bay Colony Rail Trail to convert those inactive tracks into a rail trail, for use by bicyclists, strollers, joggers, walkers and many other non-motorized travelers.

  
 

Family Fun Rides

Needham Bikes hosts regular family fun rides in the spring and fall. Trips of 4 - 8 miles within Needham, to interesting destinations, accessible to most of the family (usually ages 6 and up).

A Bicycling Plan for Needham

Needham Bikes is implementing the bicycling plan with these goals:

  1. To reduce accident risk to cyclists;
  2. To make cycling an attractive means of transportation;
  3. To provide recreational opportunities that will improve quality of life for Needham’s residents;
  4. To promote a healthy, active lifestyle for citizens of all ages;
  5. To improve mobility for children, lessening society’s reliance on teenage driving and parents.

  

Walking down, cycling up in commuter report

Submitted by aegisrider on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 21:40

http://www.peoplepoweredmovement.org/site/index.php/site/memberservices/...

Bicycle Friendly Stickers — a campaign worth backing!

Submitted by aegisrider on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 18:28

http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/11/news/bicycle-friendly-stickers-%E...

The secret to a long healthy life

Submitted by aegisrider on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 17:08

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/11/02/141937325/secret-to-a-long-he...

Olin Students organizing an informal trail ride. Town Forest, Saturday 10/29

Submitted by Ben Chapman on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 18:06

Hi Needham Bikers,

     My name is Ben, I'm a sophomore Mechanical Engineering student at Olin.  I'm on a student team that is working to get more Olin students out enjoying Needham's parks and trails with other Needham residents.  We will be having a fun trail ride at the Needham Town Forest on Saturday morning starting at 10:30 from the Central Ave. trailhead.  We will have bikers and mounain unicyclists from Olin and we really want to have some Needham residents to join in.  If you'd like to come, reply here or email getoutgetmoving@gmail.com

Needham Summit on Energy and the Environment Monday, 10/24

Submitted by Tad Staley on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 21:25

The Needham Summit on Energy and the Environment, a collaboration of Olin College, Needham League of Women Voters, and Green Needham, will be held on Monday, October 24, 2011 at Olin College.

This will be an opportunity to discuss and work on a shared vision for our future in matters related to energy and the environment. Come and join us to set a direction for what our community can look like in 2020 and beyond.

The forum will include

Happy Birthday Fred!

Submitted by Tad Staley on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 16:06

Many of you may know the remarkable Fred Kresse, who has been a resident of Needham for almost 50 years. Among the many remarkable things Fred has done, he has been an avid cyclist and member of the Charles River Wheelmen.

Fred (middle, in blue jacket) and his entourage at around the 15 mile mark

Anti Needhambikes vandalism

Submitted by aegisrider on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 06:03

Within the last couple of weeks returning from a ride, I noticed that one of the share the road signs (inbound on South just after crossing Chestnut had been spray painted with gray paint taking out the "share the road" message. I thought that perhaps this was an isloated event. A few days later I noticed that same thing had happened to a NeedhamBikes sign on Harris (near Great Plain) same spray paint. This was no isloated event, someone purposely went around to deface these signs, anti cyclist backlash? A motorist who does not want to share the road?.....

Needham Events on Moving Planet Day, Sept. 24

Submitted by Tad Staley on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 20:41

On Saturday, September 24, Needham will be participating in the Moving Planet event, a worldwide day of action advocating clean transportation – a planet moving under human power and clean energy, not powered by fossil fuels.

Needham Bikes is partnering with Green Needham and the Needham Community Farm to sponsor two events, a local bike ride from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and, at 1:00 (updated time), a longer bike ride to Boston Common to join the Moving Planet Rally.

2010 Bicycling and Walking Benchmarking Report

Submitted by Tad Staley on Sun, 08/28/2011 - 08:03

In late 2010, the Alliance for Biking and Walking, a North American coalition of grassroots bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations, delivered a comprehensive report on biking and walking in the United States. The report, which is 196 pages long (and attached here), includes much interesting data on active forms of transportation.

For example, while Massachusetts as a state ranks #13 for biking to work, and #8 for walking to work, did you know that Boston has the largest share of commuters who walk or bike to work?

Once More with Feeling! Bike Friday This Week

Submitted by Tad Staley on Wed, 08/24/2011 - 06:36

This Friday, Aug 26, will be the last Bike Friday of the season, and there will be a willing convoy heading from Needham to Boston City Hall Plaza for a breakfast celebration.

The convoy from Needham will begin at 6:15 at Needham Town Common across from Harvey's Hardware. It will proceed to Cutler Lake on Nahaton Street by 6:30. This month however, we'll take a slightly more direct route and go via the Arnold Arboretum and the Southwest Corridor (see post on this route here). Total distance from Town Hall is about 15 miles.
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