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From our Bike Events Calendar
Jun20Wed5:30 pm Volunteer OnboardingVolunteer OnboardingJun 20 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pmLearn about Seattle Neighborhood Greenways’ Volunteer Corps, our Theory of Change, and best practices for being an effective safe streets advocate. We will be in the 3rd floor learning space with some snacks and drinks. Learn more and RSVP here: … Continue readingJun21Thu6:30 pm Bike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsBike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsJun 21 @ 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 readingJun23Satall-day 5th Annual Sunride: Summer Solst... @ Mt. Rainier National Park: Sunrise Visitor Center5th Annual Sunride: Summer Solst... @ Mt. Rainier National Park: Sunrise Visitor CenterJun 23 all-day
5th Annual 2018 Sunride Hillclimb – A Willy Nilly Summer Solstice Road Bicycle Ride Join us for a solstice-welcoming spin up to the gorgeous high-alpine Sunrise Visitor Center at Mt. Rainier. “We” could be 5 riders or 150, with varied … Continue readingall-day Spoked To Ride @ Remlinger FarmsSpoked To Ride @ Remlinger FarmsJun 23 all-day
Are you Spoked to Ride for a Great Cause? Take part in our unique fundraising event that provides education and opportunities to young kids. This summer, set in the picturesque Snoqualmie Valley, you can take part in a family bike … Continue reading10:00 am Improve Beacon Hill’s Gateway wi...Improve Beacon Hill’s Gateway wi...Jun 23 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pmDo you travel through S. Charles St & Golf Dr. S.? Most Beacon Hill residents do — being the closest intersection to the Jose Rizal Bridge (on the Beacon Hill Side) means almost all of us will travel through it. … Continue reading Be a Seattle Bike Blog Supporter!
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Tag Archives: brock howell
Howell: Vaccinate your bike
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Brock Howell of Bicycle Security Advisors. The group is launching a campaign to fight bike theft by getting more people to register their bikes online with Bike Index. Bike theft is a major problem … Continue reading
Bike Happy: Introducing the weekly newsletter to Seattle Bike Blog
EDITOR’S NOTE: The weekly Bike Happy newsletter is a huge dump of local bike events and advocacy news curated by Founder Brock Howell. Brock reached out and suggested the newsletter could be a great addition to Seattle Bike Blog. I … Continue reading
Scenes from our move by bike
A couple weeks ago, my spouse Kelli and I moved from the Central District to the Wallingford/U District area. And with the help of nearly 20 amazing friends — old and new — we did it by bike. I have … Continue reading
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Tagged brock howell, central district, cyclefab, haulin colin, move by bike, wallingford
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Panel of experts will discuss solutions to bike theft
Bike theft continues to rise steeply in Seattle. And that not only costs people money, but many people won’t replace their stolen wheels. At a time when our increasingly congested city needs more people to get around by bike, theft is … Continue reading
Announcing FREE BIKE: A people’s festival pouring into the streets early July
Hop on a bike, and your city opens in front of you. No stop-and-go crawl down the highway, no watching your hard-earned money tick away a dollar-per-second at the gas pump, no stressing about the time left on your paid … Continue reading
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Tagged brock howell, FREE BIKE, FREE BIKE Party, jason goodman, pedalpalooza, shift2bikes, swift industries, velopalooza
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Howell: As Seattle adds jobs, how are the new workers getting there?
Editor’s Note: Every year, we write about newly-released Census data on commute modes in Seattle and communities across the country. In this guest post, Brock Howell dives even deeper, analyzing just Seattle’s new commutes. What he finds has lessons for … Continue reading
After big election wins, Howell leaves a more grassroots-focused Cascade
To many grassroots bike activists in the Seattle area, Brock Howell may have been until recently the face of Cascade Bicycle Club. Howell left Cascade in November shortly after an election where the club’s advocacy team was a major part … Continue reading
Community unites to buy honest stolen bike buyer an even better ride
What started as yet another stolen bike story morphed into a wonderful tale of a guy who simply did the right thing and a community that came together to thank him … and then some. Yang bought a $500 bike … Continue reading
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Tagged bike index, bike thefts, brock howell, stolen bike recoveries, yang
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City bans dangerous right turns across Dexter bike lane at Mercer
Ever since Broad Street closed for good and Mercer changed from one-way to two-way, people biking southbound on Dexter Ave have faced a new danger: Cars making right turns in front of them to access westbound Mercer. But the city … Continue reading
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Tagged brock howell, cascade bicycle club, construction, dexter, mercer mess, mercer west, sdot
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Let’s fund Safe Routes to Parks in Seattle’s next levy
Almost every Seattle resident agrees: Parks should be safe and fun. But so should the routes to get there. Like parks, safe streets become places where people gather and play. They become spaces where neighbors can be neighbors as well … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014 parks levy, brock howell, cascade bicycle club, safe routes to parks
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