<p>Any current students recommend or advise against the idea of bringing a bike? I occasionally enjoy a pleasant bike ride. Are there other Bowdoinites that have brought their bikes on campus?</p>
<p>Check on the college activities list. There is a communal bike organization where you can use a bike when you wish. I don't know if the bikes are of the quality for really long rides. Might work out ok if you just want to ride out for an afternoon or a picnic or run errands.</p>
<p>The communal bike organization - the Yellow Bike Club - is useful to a point. Basically you sign up and get a combination and if you see one of the 8 or so yellow bikes around you can ride it wherever and then return it to a public bike lock. Problem is is that of course when you need to use a bike you probably won't be able to find one...or you ride one of the bikes to class and you get out and someone else has taken it somewhere else. It was really funny - I ended up kind of figuring out the schedule of this one kid who used the Yellow Bikes and he'd go into class as I'd leave the same building and I'd take the bike from the bike rack...he must have gotten annoyed to find that bike missing every day when he got out of class. </p>
<p>I highly recommend getting a bike - it's not so necessary for freshman year because you're mostly on the quad for dorms but I bought one at the beginning of soph year and it was the best thing I ever did. Made grocery store trips and morning classes in Searles WAY more tolerable. Also, the fall weather is gorgeous and lovely for bike rides.</p>
<p>Eerrr...plan on riding your bike only from May-October. Haha. Weather here is awful</p>
<p>But I imagine it would be nice and convenient to have a bike cause Brunswick is so nice with many nice shops and restaurants, but some a little further that preferred walking distance. That's when the bikes come in. :-) Also, the campus is flat, not that it's huge and unbearable, but a bike would be fun to have.</p>