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We were all up in arms about Bike Week last year, interviewing everybody and their mother in local bikes. This year, we put the brakes on the interviews, since we found some super cool events for you to attend. This Saturday, try a literary tour of Cambridge.

Wheelworks is a local bike shop with three locations (two in Belmont, one in Somerville), plenty of workshops, and more bikes than you'd ever have time to ride. In honor of bike week, Bostonist spoke with Wheelworks co-owner Peter Mooney about his biking practices. Check the Wheelworks calendar for upcoming workshops and bike week events.

Bike to Work Week is almost over, but it's now time for the Bike Weekend! Several local shops and biking groups are hosting cool open houses and other events, so get (your tires) pumped and ride on out for some fun!

How did you get started biking?

What if Paul Revere had ridden a bike instead of a horse? That's sort of the idea behind Urban AdvenTours' historical tours of Boston, conducted by (sometimes) behatted guides who issue their proclamations from the seat of a bike instead of an exhaust-spewing duck. You can tour Fenway, the Charles River, downtown (Back Bay to North End), the Rose Kennedy Greenway, and other areas of Boston by bike with the green- and fitness-minded Urban AdvenTours. Andrew Prescott, a reformed accountant, is Urban AdvenTours' fearless leader. He spoke to us about his biking life and urged us to "keep it wheel." Ha!

--Mayor Menino hops on a bike in honor of Bike Week. [Boston Globe]

Mike Flanigan runs Alternative Needs Transportation (ANT), a bike shop that makes marvelous machines to transport you from point A to point B without nasty emissions. And some of the bikes even have sweet baskets. And one of the bikes is gonna be raffled off at Redbones next Monday. Good deal! To help promote Bay State Bike Week, Bostonist talked to Flanigan about his long biking history and feelings about biking in Boston.

Landry's is a local biking legend, with locations in Boston, Natick, Norwood, and Westboro, all featuring excellent equipment for all your biking needs. From hybrids to commuters to road and mountain bikes, they've got a machine to get you where you need to go--and apparel and accessories to make you look super-cool while you're getting there. Landry's also provides fitting services to help you find the right bike for your height, which is a more difficult and more crucial undertaking than you might think!

If you’ve been putting off getting out your bike because of the weather, you no longer have an excuse. The Bay State has finally unfrozen, becoming as friendly to bikers as anyplace with Masshole drivers can possibly be. May is National Bike Month and this week’s been chosen as the Bay State Bike Week. The state is trying to encourage commuters to bike 50,000 miles to work this week with a variety of bike-oriented events in Boston and beyond. Join the challenge--you might lose a little weight in addition to saving the world (and gas money)!

This week is officially Bike Week. Regular commuters, part time enthusiasts, friends, and allies of bikers will be donning their helmets (please put on your helmet) and taking to the streets to celebrate a great form of human powered transportation. While many events take place from Boston to NoHo we're focusing our attention on those happening close to home. Free biker appreciation breakfasts and group rides have been organized. Check out the full listing at...

Bostonist never tires of urging you to ride your bicycle and with the price of gas and the T climbing ever higher, you really ought to take our advice. Sure, the weather outside is frightful these days, but there are plenty of easy solutions to that problem. And to sweeten the deal, next week MassBike, our friendly neighborhood bicycle advocacy organization, has a bunch of events on tap for Bike Week 2006.

Bostonist prefers to dedicate our precious server space to articles that serve the greater good, but sometimes events force our hand and we feel obliged to write on matters more personal. So it is today, as we ask you, dear public, for help in solving what we believe to be a most dastardly crime (since it was committed against us). To wit, some evildoer, perhaps wishing to make a definitive statement of protest against Bike Week, hit Bostonist as we were riding our bicycle home from work in downtown Boston. Head injuries being what they are, we have no recollection of the offender (or of the incident at all) and the police found no witnesses on the scene. However, a careful forensic examination of our bicycle suggests that the front wheel was struck by something large and car-like, which dovetails with our personal practice of not slamming our face against the pavement for no reason.

Bostonist should have mentioned it sooner, but better late than never: this is Bike Week (sometimes known as Bike to Work Week). That means tons of bike-friendly activities all over the state, which are listed at the helpful website of Massbike, our favorite tireless champion of two-wheeled transport. Being great lovers of free stuff, we especially recommend the free breakfasts for bike commuters. There's one tomorrow in front of the Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square from 7:30 - 9:30, and two on Thursday at the same time: one on Main Street in Kendall Square and one on Boylston by the Pru (where the Duck Boats queue up). There will also be a city-funded, bicycle-related giveaway on Friday morning in Cambridge (at Kendall, Central, Harvard Square, and the Minuteman bike trail), and we have it on good authority that even non-Cantabrigians can partake (last year, Bostonist got a bicycle bell).