Cyclists awaiting free tune-ups. Image: Savannah Young
Outside the Harvard Medical School Courtyard Café on a pleasant fall day, the annual Harvard Longwood Bike Fair featured rows of bicycles and groups of cyclists gathering along the Quad walkway.
Each year, the Harvard Longwood Bicyclists group organizes a bike fair to provide cyclists who commute to and from the Longwood Area a venue to learn more about safety, commuting resources and biking events happening in the community.
The mission of the Harvard Longwood Bicyclists is to develop and maintain resources and avenues for communication among bicyclists in the Longwood Medical Area.”
“The mission of the Harvard Longwood Bicyclists is to develop and maintain resources and avenues for communication among bicyclists in the Longwood Medical Area…. With these events, we aim to share useful information with bicyclists, to build a community of bicyclists in the area and to encourage folks to consider biking if they don’t already do it,” said Harvard Longwood Bicyclists member and chief fair organizer, David Havelick.
On Sept. 16, Longwood area cyclists had an opportunity to chat with various organizations and companies, such as the Harvard University Police Department, Harvard Longwood Campus Commuter Services and Parking Office, AAA Northeast, MASCO and the Boston Cyclists Union, among others. More than 60 cyclists received a free tune-up from local bike shop Landry’s Bicycles.
The more than 100 fair attendees could also speak with representatives from the Hubway bike rental company and learn about a special discount offered to Harvard Longwood employees and students.
In addition to the bike fair, Harvard Longwood Bicyclists hosts an annual Bike Safety Summit. This year’s summit will be held on Oct. 13 at 12:30 p.m. in the Kresge Building, room 502, and will feature cyclist gear giveaways and provide winter weather safety tips.
Harvard Longwood Bicyclists is a volunteer-based organization consisting of faculty, staff and student cyclists from Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The ongoing efforts of the Harvard Longwood Bicyclists and the Harvard Longwood Campus Commuter Services and Parking Office to create a more cyclist-friendly environment have attracted local recognition. In August 2015, the Harvard Longwood campus received the first place Longwood Chocolate Award as the Most Bike Friendly Business in Boston from Boston Bikes.
For more information on bicyclist resources at the Harvard Longwood campus, go to Harvard Longwood Bicyclists.
