Author: Madi Carlson

December 9, 2016

Family Ride: Hauling Christmas trees and cruising Candy Cane Lane by bike

EDITOR’S NOTE: Critical Lass will be biking to and through Candy Cane Lane Sunday. This family-friendly ride for women and their friends meets up 4 p.m. at Fix Coffeehouse in Green Lake. You can find more details on the event page. To run with the holiday theme, I loved Madi Carlson’s recent post on her…
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tagged: candy cane lane, critical lass, familyride, madeleine carlson
May 26, 2016

Carlson: Biking Seattle with Summer by Rail’s Elena Studier

EDITOR’S NOTE: Thanks to Madi Carlson for this post. It comes on the heels of several great posts she’s been writing recently on her blog FamilyRide.us. I especially like her post about family bike camping at Illahee State Park. Forget the station wagon this Memorial Day weekend, family biking adventure is within reach. That’s one…
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tagged: elena studier, familyride, madeleine carlson, national association of railroad passengers, summer by rail
June 23, 2015

FamilyRide: 20 families bike together to go camping on Bainbridge

EDITOR’S NOTE: Madi Carlson is Seattle Bike Blog’s Family Bike Expert and author of FamilyRide.us. Keep an eye out for her book, “Urban Cycling: How to get to work, save money, and use your bike for city living” available from Mountaineers Books in November. We took part in a huge, fun bike event this past…
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tagged: bainbridge island, familybike seattle, familyride, fay bainbridge park, madeleine carlson, swift campout
January 8, 2014

FamilyRide: Kidical Mass swings by the under-construction Missing Link, Ballard Greenway bike counter

Sunday’s Kidical Mass ride took us to Ballard for our first look at the new two-way bikeway for part of the Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link. The paint isn’t down yet and I hope they’ll put more dividers in to make things clearer, but most of the signs are up. We only took it in the…
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tagged: ballard, ballard neighborhood greenways, familyride, kidical mass, missing link, nw 58th st
October 31, 2013

Happy Halloween from the Family Ride kids!

Quite unintentionally, my kids’ Halloween costumes have mirrored improvements to Seattle bike infrastructure over the last few years: 2010: Old style man-in-a-house sharrow (and mail carrier)
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tagged: costumes, familyride, halloween, madeleine carlson
October 18, 2013

FamilyRide: Seattle welcomes regular Kidical Mass rides

Kidical Mass is a fun, safe, easy going, and law-abiding family bike ride for kids of all ages. It started in Eugene, OR in 2008 and Seattle’s first ride took place May 15, 2009. Seattle has seen periods of monthly rides interspersed with droughts of not-so-monthly rides. As of next month, we’re back to monthlies:…
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tagged: familyride, kidical mass