Pedal Power 2025: Celebrating Community Through Biking

Saturday, August 23 | 2025

Gear up for this one-day event! In partnership with HUBLUV, the Museum of Science is excited to celebrate the bicycling community around Greater Boston.

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Pedal Power on a blue background with a bike wheel at the top.

People-centered transportation provides the solution to live sustainably on Earth. Join us for a resource fair and featured presentations to learn how bicycling and pedestrian infrastructure can build community, improve personal health, and address the climate crisis. Connect with community organizations about the incredible work already happening around Greater Boston and increase your own biking confidence!

Listen to guest speakers on the Museum’s stages and check out informational and activity tables throughout the Exhibit Halls (see below).

Complimentary valet bicycle parking is available for those who bike into this event! 

In partnership with HUBLUV. Presented in conjunction with the Museum’s Center for the Environment.

Ride to the Museum!  

Bikes Not Bombs & Brothers On Bikes

Ride Start: 9:00 am arrival/9:30 am departure; Bikes Not Bombs, 284 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

Ride End: Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston, MA 02114  

Pace: 12-15 mph, no drop

Bike to the Sea

Ride Start:10:00 am at Bike to the Sea Bike Kitchen, 58 Canal St, Malden, MA 02148

Ride End: Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston, MA 02114, with option group ride back to Malden.  

Ride Length: 12.5 miles round trip

Get a Free Ride from BlueBikes

Enjoy a free ride on us between August 23 and August 30! As a perk of attending today’s event, we’re offering an exclusive Blue Bikes code so you can explore the city on two wheels.  

To redeem, enter the code MUSEUMBIKEDAY25 in the Rewards Section of the Bluebikes app menu.

Speakers:  

  • 11:00 am Gabrielle Rossi, PhD, Founder/Executive Director, Girls in Gear
  • 12:30 pm Adam Bigelow, bike enthusiast  
  • 1:30 pm Rui Li, PhD, Director and Associate Clinical Professor, Northeastern University Exercise Science Laboratory
  • 2:30 pm Amelia Casey, Senior Transportation Planner, Arup

 

Tabling Organizations:  

  • A Better City
  • American Diabetes Association New England Tour de Cure
  • Appalachian Mountain Club; Bay Circuit Trail
  • Bike to the Sea
  • Bikes not Bombs
  • Boston Critical Mass
  • Boston Cyclist Union
  • BrothersOnBikesBoston  
  • CargoB
  • Community Pedal Power
  • Esplanade Association
  • Girls in Gear
  • LivableStreets Alliance
  • Mattapan Food & Fitness Coalition
  • Mystic River Watershed Association
  • Mass Central Rail Trail
  • Massachusetts Area Planning Council
  • MassBike
  • New England Mountain Bike Association
  • Sustainable Transportation at Northeastern University (STAN)

 

Activities:

  • Helmet Flair & Safety Station
  • Bike Powered Games – Rainbow Rider & Device Charging  
  • Artist for Humanity Community Mural
  • Museum of Science Member Lounge 
Get Tickets

Date and Time

Saturday, August 23 | 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

Audience

All Ages

Location

Entire Museum View Map

Price

Included with Exhibit Halls admission

Language

English
Get Tickets

Date and Time

Saturday, August 23 | 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

Audience

All Ages

Location

Entire Museum View Map

Price

Included with Exhibit Halls admission

Language

English

People-centered transportation provides the solution to live sustainably on Earth. Join us for a resource fair and featured presentations to learn how bicycling and pedestrian infrastructure can build community, improve personal health, and address the climate crisis. Connect with community organizations about the incredible work already happening around Greater Boston and increase your own biking confidence!

Listen to guest speakers on the Museum’s stages and check out informational and activity tables throughout the Exhibit Halls (see below).

Complimentary valet bicycle parking is available for those who bike into this event! 

In partnership with HUBLUV. Presented in conjunction with the Museum’s Center for the Environment.

Ride to the Museum!  

Bikes Not Bombs & Brothers On Bikes

Ride Start: 9:00 am arrival/9:30 am departure; Bikes Not Bombs, 284 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

Ride End: Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston, MA 02114  

Pace: 12-15 mph, no drop

Bike to the Sea

Ride Start:10:00 am at Bike to the Sea Bike Kitchen, 58 Canal St, Malden, MA 02148

Ride End: Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston, MA 02114, with option group ride back to Malden.  

Ride Length: 12.5 miles round trip

Get a Free Ride from BlueBikes

Enjoy a free ride on us between August 23 and August 30! As a perk of attending today’s event, we’re offering an exclusive Blue Bikes code so you can explore the city on two wheels.  

To redeem, enter the code MUSEUMBIKEDAY25 in the Rewards Section of the Bluebikes app menu.

Speakers:  

  • 11:00 am Gabrielle Rossi, PhD, Founder/Executive Director, Girls in Gear
  • 12:30 pm Adam Bigelow, bike enthusiast  
  • 1:30 pm Rui Li, PhD, Director and Associate Clinical Professor, Northeastern University Exercise Science Laboratory
  • 2:30 pm Amelia Casey, Senior Transportation Planner, Arup

 

Tabling Organizations:  

  • A Better City
  • American Diabetes Association New England Tour de Cure
  • Appalachian Mountain Club; Bay Circuit Trail
  • Bike to the Sea
  • Bikes not Bombs
  • Boston Critical Mass
  • Boston Cyclist Union
  • BrothersOnBikesBoston  
  • CargoB
  • Community Pedal Power
  • Esplanade Association
  • Girls in Gear
  • LivableStreets Alliance
  • Mattapan Food & Fitness Coalition
  • Mystic River Watershed Association
  • Mass Central Rail Trail
  • Massachusetts Area Planning Council
  • MassBike
  • New England Mountain Bike Association
  • Sustainable Transportation at Northeastern University (STAN)

 

Activities:

  • Helmet Flair & Safety Station
  • Bike Powered Games – Rainbow Rider & Device Charging  
  • Artist for Humanity Community Mural
  • Museum of Science Member Lounge