Interesting, because my experience of commuting in Boston over the past several years is that, between the horrible road conditions and the borderline psychotic drivers, Boston is a pretty miserable place to bike. Maybe I'm just jaded because I got dumped off of my bike by a jackass cager cutting across three lanes in an attempt to parallel park and clipping my back wheel, only to have exactly zero of the myriad of bikers that rode past me ask if I was OK (and the driver just shrugged at me). Sorry to sound like a buzzkill, but I'm still a bit irritated by the whole episode (not my first accident either).

Granted, that stretch of Mass Ave through Central and into Harvard Sq and even up through Porter can be fun to ride (albeit a rather bumpy in places).