Tag: familybike seattle

May 20, 2022

Sunday: Hey parents, Kidical Mass is back!

After taking a few years off due to the pandemic, Kidical Mass is back. The celebration of family biking will host its first event of the 2020s Sunday as part of the first Bicycle Weekend on Lake Washington Blvd. Meet 10 a.m. in the Mount Baker Beach parking lot for a 3-mile ride down the…
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tagged: familybike seattle, kidical mass
May 29, 2019

Scherer is stepping down after 12 years as Director of Familybike Seattle, organization seeks more Board members

It is hard to think of any other person who has done more for family biking in Seattle than Morgan Scherer. She has been out on our streets leading by example and sharing her experience since at least 2007, when she founded Familybike Seattle. Hauling a fleet of different kid-hauling cargo bikes all over town,…
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tagged: familybike seattle, morgan scherer
September 12, 2016

Disaster strikes September 25. Bring your bike.

Disaster preparedness is extremely important. But in good times, practicing for an imaginary disaster just sounds so, I don’t know, boring? Paranoid? Enter the Disaster Relief Trials. The DRT is basically a bike race complicated by a series of challenges that simulate an imaginary disaster, and it’s a lot fun. This year’s DRT, hosted by…
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tagged: disaster relief trials, familybike seattle
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
March 27, 2013

Family biking ready to boom in 2013

The number of Seattle parents hauling their kids on bikes has grown steadily in recent years, and both Cascade and longtime family cycling leaders are upping their family cycling games in 2013. Familybike Seattle is a new nonprofit formed by Morgan Scherer, who has been an inspiring and active force behind family cycling in Seattle…
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tagged: bike works, cascade bicycle club, family biking program, familybike seattle, fiets of parenthood, morgan scherer

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