Maine Bike Rides and Other Cycling Events

Join us at the Bicycle Coalition of Maine's annual pizza party at Flatbread Pizza Co., 72 Commercial St., Portland on May 8 from 5 to 9 p.m. This popular event includes the unbeatable combination of pizza, beer and bicyclists.

You can catch up with friends and plan summer bicycling adventures, or perhaps even find some new biking partners.

Flatbread will donate a portion of the proceeds from every pizza sold during the evening (including takeout orders) to the coalition. Shipyard Brewing Co. will donate for every beer sold.

So come eat, drink, socialize with other cyclists and help support the coalition's work to improve bicycling in Maine. For more information, please call (207) 623-4511.

Join us to celebrate the official opening ceremony for the Eastern Trail's newest off-road section, between Saco and Old Orchard Beach, Maine, as well as the new bridge spanning Route 1 in Saco.

An event held in conjunction with the East Coast Greenway Alliance, to highlight the progress and work ahead for off-road development of the Eastern Trail. Pre-registration required for this space-limited event.

Newforest Institute in Brooks, Maine is hosting a Build Your Own Bike Trailer workshop on Sunday, May 20 from 1-5 pm with designer, welder, and builder Marshall Rolerson of Waldo. Participants are invited to bring a pair of salvaged 20- or 16-inch bicycle wheels with good rubber tires that will hold air and join this experimental short-term assembly line production, where they will leave with their own bicycle cargo trailer. A brief presentation exploring human powered cargo transport will launch the workshop.

The cost of the workshop will be self-determined based upon ability to pay, with a sliding scale fee of -. Contact Lisa Packard at Newforest Institute, 722-3625 or info@newforestinstitute.org to register.

Workshop leader Marshall Rolerson is a designer, welder, and builder with 10 years experience in manufacturing. He has designed a number of trailers, as well as a recumbent bicycle. He is a founding member of the Belfast Area Transition Initiative and serves on their Transportation Spiral; he is presently spearheading a metalworkers cooperative in Belfast. He commutes from his off-the-grid farm in Waldo to Belfast whenever possible using the bicycle trailer he designed and built 10 years ago.