Boston Bike Month starts Sunday at Christopher Columbus Park

(Jeremy C. Fox for Boston.com)

Christopher Columbus Park, seen here in the dead of winter, will come alive with music, food and bicycling activities on Sunday as Urban Adventours hosts the Boston Bike Month Kick Off Event.

By Jeremy C. Fox, Town Correspondent

In Boston and across the country, May is Bike Month, and for the second year in a row a North End business will start the month off by hosting a kickoff event.

Sunday, May 1, Urban AdvenTours and other local businesses and bicycling groups will gather along the waterfront in Christopher Columbus Park for an afternoon of free food, music by local band theWANDAS and bike-related activities. The celebration will begin at noon and continue to 5 p.m.

“Last year we had tricycle races. I think we’re going to do something similar this year,” said Baylor Bennett, manager of the bike shop and bicycle tour provider. “There’ll be vendors giving out food and beverages.”

In addition to the food and fun family activities, the event will give bicycle enthusiast the chance to check out the latest biking technology or jump on a bike and join a tour group.

Bennett said last year’s event was less successful than it could have been because happened to coincide with the catastrophic break of a 10-foot-diameter pipe in Weston that caused all of Greater Boston to be placed under a boil order.

“A lot of food and drink vendors couldn’t show up,” Bennett said. “So last year, I think we had closer to six or seven vendors, versus this year we have the full 15.”

With no major water pipes broken as yet and a weather forecast that calls for sunny skies and warm temperatures, Bennett is hopeful that this year’s event will be more successful. He said it’s a great time of year just to get out and enjoy Christopher Columbus Park.

“Of course it’s right on the waterfront, which is gorgeous, and all the flowers are blooming right now, so the park couldn’t be better looking,” he said.

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