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From our Bike Events Calendar
Jan22Wed7:30 am Beacon Hill Safe Streets Donut 2020Beacon Hill Safe Streets Donut 2020Jan 22 @ 7:30 am – 9:00 amCelebrate taking transit during Sound Transit’s Connect 2020 construction with donuts, other pastries, and coffee and meet some Beacon Hill Safe Streets folks!We will be at the International District/Chinatown light rail station on street level. More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/586797028839722/ FacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmail6:00 pm Ballard-Fremont Greenways Meeting @ Outlander BrewingBallard-Fremont Greenways Meeting @ Outlander BrewingJan 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pmBallard-Fremont Greenways meets monthly on the 4th Wednesday of the month. Check Facebook for monthly meeting information: https://www.facebook.com/BFGreenways/Outlander Brewing on Wed Jan 22nd from 6-7:30 pm. Upstairs Room. Whoever’s first can check in with the bartender upon arrival. FacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmailJan23Thu6:00 pm Beacon Hill Safe Streets Monthly... @ Beacon Hill LibraryBeacon Hill Safe Streets Monthly... @ Beacon Hill LibraryJan 23 @ 6:00 pm – 7:45 pmformerly Beacon B.I.K.E.S. FacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmail6:30 pm Bike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsBike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsJan 23 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pmDetails: Volunteer Repair Parties (VRP) are drop-in, weekly bike repair parties for adults (age 18 and up). You do not need to be a skilled bike mechanic to help out. This is how most volunteers with Bike Works get their … Continue readingJan25Sat10:00 am Stinky Spoke Mountain Bike Poker... @ Willows Run Golf Complex (start and finish location)Stinky Spoke Mountain Bike Poker... @ Willows Run Golf Complex (start and finish location)Jan 25 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
It might be gloomy outside on what is traditionally the “stinkiest” weather day of the year, but we make the Stinky Spoke Mountain Bike Poker Ride for Charity so much fun, several hundred riders will be joining us in January … Continue reading
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Bike News Roundup: A bike path xylophone
That’s right. It’s a bike path that is also a xylophone. It plays a tune as you ride. Two designers presented the idea for the Seoul Cycle Design Competition. Freaking awesome. From Treehugger.
Bike News Roundup: Diets and dangerous detours
Several new pieces about so-called road diets have been written in the past few days. Some are for, some against. Always good to hear new points of view on the issue. However, it seems like the importance of safety is … Continue reading
Bike news roundup: A month-long traffic jam (!)
Reason #365 NOT to drive a car: A nine-day traffic jam near Beijing. But the real kicker in this traffic jam is that nine days is mere child’s play. A traffic jam last month backed traffic up for a month. … Continue reading
Bike news roundup: Beer Bikes! (can we please get one?)
CAN SEATTLE PLEASE GET A BEER BIKE?!?!?!?!?! Whatever laws might get in the way, we need to change (hat tip BikeHugger):
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Bike News Roundup: Mark Twain was for bike sharing programs before it was cool a U.N. conspiracy
The Social Bicycle System from Ryan Rzepecki on Vimeo. This week’s roundup looks at bike sharing programs, from innovation to history to conspriacy theories. SoBi (see video above) is a concept for a bike sharing system that is supposedly 1/4 … Continue reading
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On other blogs: Biking the coast in 1909
A quick roundup of interesting stuff from around the city. Go Means Go has a book review of “Two Wheels North” by Evelyn McDaniel Gibb, the story of two boys who rode their bikes from Santa Rosa to Seattle for … Continue reading
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