Tag: stp
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Chilly Hilly storms Bainbridge + STP sells out in record time
The biking season is officially underway as Cascade Bicycle Club’s 40th Annual Chilly Hilly took over Bainbridge Island Sunday. For the club’s first ride of the year, hundreds or people packed the ferries for a cruise around Bainbridge Island’s relentless hills (2,675 feet of climbing in 33 miles). Meanwhile, it was snowing sporadically around the…
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STP news: 10,000 people (including a 9-year-old) ride from Seattle to Portland
10,000 people rode 202 miles in excellent weather over the weekend for Cascade Bicycle Club’s annual Seattle to Portland Classic. I was deathly ill and not even able to see folks off Saturday morning, but there was a lot of good coverage of the ride in the Seattle Times. First, the Times hung out with…
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Weekend Guide: Seattle to Portland riders leave Saturday – UPDATED
Seattle is exporting a couple thousand of our city’s bike-riding citizens this weekend, sending them 200 miles across the state to Portland (because, you know, they could use a couple thousand more people riding bikes there). Cascade Bicycle Club’s annual Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic leaves from the parking lot directly north of Husky Stadium…
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Being blind won’t stop woman from biking Seattle to Portland
Eleni Teshome is one of thousands of people biking in the Seattle to Portland ride this weekend, and she is determined to make it even though she is blind.
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Godspeed, Seattle to Portland riders
Update: Biking Bis has great photos and STP history. The STP ride started this morning. For those of us left up in Seattle, the Burke-Gilman is a little lonelier. Good luck, everyone. Stay safe and enjoy yourselves. King 5 has a report focusing a bit on how the riders will affect car traffic (whoo!):
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