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Boston by bike

The city is gearing up to make much-needed improvements; but even now, it's a great way to get around

By Dennis Fisher

Globe Correspondent / September 20, 2007

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Boston is a miserable city for bikers. The roads are glorified cowpaths - rutted, full of potentially lethal potholes, and loaded with sharp curves and odd meanderings. To call the weather inhospitable and unpredictable does not do justice to the 30-degree temperature swings of spring days or the 45-mile-per-hour winds of an early fall northeaster. Boston drivers are a national ... (Full article: 1159 words)