Again.
DotBike was started in the early 2000s by a handful of Dorchester residents with the goal of making our neighborhood more bike friendly. This consisted of organized group rides, bike repair events, and promoting and lobbying for better and safer biking routes. Thanks to a few dedicated volunteers, DotBike had a few good active years, but once the main organizers moved on to other things, the group went dormant.
In the end of 2019, a number of recent and long-time Dorchester residents who expressed an interest in seeing DotBike become active again, hosted a large, energetic crowd at homestead café on January 15th, discussing the possibility of making DotBike an active chapter of the Boston Cyclist’s Union (BCU). After another meeting on February 27th, they voted to officially become a chapter of BCU. And then COVID happened, and the group fell dormant once again.
Fast forward to September 2026 and a Dorchester resident posted a message on r/bikeboston on Reddit, looking for Dorchester residents to join a WhatsApp chat for cycling and micromobility in Dot. As we chatted on WhatsApp, it became apparent that the best path forward was to revive the dormant DotBike.org resources, and we set to work on that. And here we all are!