Richard Fries

With a cycling career spanning over 50 years, Richard Fries is nationally renowned as a prominent leader of American bicycle culture. As an evangelist for all things bicycle—having operated as an elite competitive racer, cycling journalist, safety director, and executive advocate—Richard’s lifelong mission perfectly aligns with our firm’s dedication to protecting vulnerable road users across New England.

At Jeffrey Glassman Injury Lawyers, Richard serves as our Director of Cycling Advocacy. He will translate his decades of deep-rooted infrastructure and road safety knowledge into actionable legal power, helping our investigative and legal teams analyze complex accident mechanics, interpret Massachusetts bicycle regulations, and prove driver fault in serious cycling collisions.

Partnering with master videographer Peter Cheung, Richard will serve as the on-camera narrative force behind the firm's upcoming digital safety and case-building campaigns:

• Anatomy of a Crash (Upcoming Series): Richard will host this vital educational series, reconstructing the exact physics and legal fault behind common accidents, including Beacon Street doorings, intersection "right hooks," and blind-spot commercial truck turns.
• Dangerous Intersection Audits: Richard will conduct street-level safety breakdowns at high-exposure corridors throughout Greater Boston (including Porter Square, the BU Bridge Rotary, and Route 9), exposing the infrastructural failures and mixing-zone hazards that lead to preventable cyclist injuries.
• Expert Bike-Cam Analysis: Anchoring our upcoming interactive community platform, Richard will provide expert commentary on crowd-sourced rider footage, deconstructing close calls to evaluate legal liability and educate commuter cyclists.

Before joining the firm, Richard established himself as one of the most respected and influential bicycle advocates in the United States. He is the former Executive Director of MassBike (the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition), where he spent years on the front lines lobbying for safer streets, advancing legislative protections for riders, and working directly with city planners and lawmakers. Additionally, he has attended numerous National Bike Summits and served as a development advisor for the premier national advocacy group PeopleForBikes.

Richard’s unmatched safety credentials also include a 19-year tenure as the Director of Cycling Experience for the Best Buddies Challenge events. Managing complex road logistics, corporate sponsorships, and thousands of participants, Richard is widely credited with engineering the safest, smoothest, and most secure large-scale charity rides in the country through his proprietary Domestique safety program.

Richard’s authoritative perspective is rooted in a lifetime spent "behind bars" since purchasing his first 10-speed in 1975. A former elite road racer who earned a spot on a Spanish developmental professional team in the late 1970s, Richard went on to co-found and publish The Ride Magazine, a critically acclaimed journal capturing all facets of cycling infrastructure, culture, and racing in the Northeast.

His deep, real-time understanding of cycling dynamics also led to a historic career as a world-class sports commentator. Richard worked as the first official English-language race announcer for the UCI Cyclo-cross and Road World Championships across Europe and America, rendering his voice instantly recognizable to cycling enthusiasts globally. He has also anchored major television broadcasts and produced prominent national events, including the U.S. National Cyclo-cross Championships, the Sea Otter Classic, and popular regional gravel events like the Natchaug Epic and Lime Rock Park Epic.

Now based in Western Massachusetts, Richard continues to ride as passionately as ever. As our Director of Cycling Advocacy, he ensures that when an injured cyclist turns to Jeffrey Glassman Injury Lawyers, they have a true cycling legend and an unyielding advocate fighting in their corner