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. How did you get started biking? I joined a group of friends (hours prior to departure) for a cycle......

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! Friday, May 16 National Bike to Work Day/Bay State Bike Day Bike Convoys, 6:45-9am, locations in Boston and Cambridge Bike Buddies, 6:45-9am, self-scheduled Breakfast Pit Stop, 7-10am, City Hall Plaza, Boston Goodie Zones, 7-10am,......

In addition to making crazy creatures like Frankendork, Marty from Geekhouse Bikes builds more "usable" bike frames for various types of riding. Custom orders are available. In honor of bike week, Geekhouse will be having an open house this Sunday, May 18, starting with bike polo at noon, a BBQ and shop tours all afternoon, bold sprints from 5-7, ghettodrome at 8, and an afterparty at Zuzu's at 9pm. Geekhouse is located at 15......

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.......

--Mayor Menino hops on a bike in honor of Bike Week. [Boston Globe] --Local residents with family in China react to the news of the recent earthquake. [Boston Herald] --House Speaker Sal Di Masi is mad as hell at the suggestion that his ethics are a little shady, and he's not taking it anymore. [Boston Globe] --Two recipients of kidneys from a homeless man infected with LMCV, a rodent virus, have died. [Boston Globe] --Parts......

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. How did......

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......

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......

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. The week, which......

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......

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......