Watch City Bike Lab

10/25/2026

October 25 is the last Sunday in October, and the final open lab of the season. It should be a beautiful day by the river. Come on by!

10/20/2026

This is the way! You don’t have to buy new stuff all the time, and the benefits are pretty sweet. Be sure to follow our friends at the Waltham Repair Cafe!!

Community repair clinics around the country are teaching people how to fix their belongings and push back against throwaway culture

10/08/2026

Larry is a great tour guide - join in if you can!

CYLING AND HISTORY ENTHUSIASTS TAKE NOTE!

This Sunday, October 11, at 9:45 AM, join historian/author Larry Finisonfor an easy, leisurely ride to see some historic sites: the Waltham Cycle Park (now Nipper-Maher), where Marshall “Major” Taylor raced and Kittie Knox won a cycling costume contest in the 1890s; and see the remnants of the grandstand where thousands gathered to see them.

You'll see a cyclists’ favorite destination, the Lake District of the Charles River, too, including the site of the Charles Metz’s Orient bicycle plant, and his home; the site of Norumbega Park, and the surviving boat house, where cyclists traded in their bicycles and went canoeing and canoodling in the coves; and for those who went too far, the jail cells to hold them. Finally, you'll see the remains of the rail infrastructure that brought cyclists and their buddies out of Boston, and the electric ping-pong train route to Newton Lower Falls.

Larry Finison is the author of Boston's Cycling Craze, 1880-1900, Boston's 20th Century Bicycling Renaissance, and Bicycling Inclusion and Equity (2023). His most recent work is Kittie Knox: Exclusion and Inclusion in Boston’s Black Athletes: Identity, Performance, and Activism. He's also a former Mill Talk presenter and Museum friend.

Register with the Charles River Wheelers (if this is your first time on a CRW ride, you can register as a non-member). All details are at

https://www.crw.org/event-6846405?CalendarViewType=1&SelectedDate=10/7/2026

10/01/2026

Trains and bikes and people to meet? Yes, please! https://www.massbike.org/southcoastbikewayalliance/take_the_train_for_a_bike_tour_of_the_south_coast? MassBike

MassBike is Massachusett's Statewide Bicycle Advocacy Group. Our Mission is to Improve Bicycling Across the State Through Legislation, Education & Outreach.

09/26/2026

Heads up for Sunday, September 27:
This wicked weather has us closed again. We will try again next Sunday!

09/20/2026

The Bike Lab might have to close early today due to rain.

09/13/2026

We are CLOSED on September 13. Just too much rain. See you next Sunday!