Tag: georgetown
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Dead Baby Downhill 2011 recap (with video!)
The 2011 Dead Baby Downhill was a raucous bash that some claim to be the biggest bicycle party on the west coast. What began with a road-rash-prone, sometimes legal downhill race (though most who ride do not race at all) ended with a huge bash, featuring beer, music, dancing, tall bike jousting, a pedal-powered carnival…
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Driver flees after striking a person cycling near Georgetown
The driver of a truck that struck a 25-year-old person cycling on E Marginal Way near S Dawson St near Georgetown around 2 a.m. this morning fled the scene. The victim went to the hospital, but none of the injuries were life-threatening. A witness followed the truck after the hit-and-run and was able to get…
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Weekend guide: Dead Baby Downhill + More naked biking
The fifteenth annual Dead Baby Downhill takes off from West Seattle Friday evening. The DBD is an annual bicycle bash hosted by the Dead Baby Bike Club. Tall bike jousting, freak bikes, pedal-powered mania from Cyclecide, music… basically a huge party. The race starts at Shipwreck Tavern at Admiral Way and California in West Seattle.…
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Freight group upset that city cares about bike safety
There are these wonderful moments where opponents to bicycle projects just come right out and say what they mean. It’s refreshing to hear a group’s arguments against lanes without them being distorted into, say, an Orwellian desire to “protect” cyclists from dangerous roads by not building bike lanes. Some freight groups oppose proposed changes to…
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Help load bikes for the Village Bicycle project Saturday
The Village Bicycle Project is packing a shipping container full of bicycles destined for Ghana, but they need your help. The load-in will be Saturday, Dec. 4 at Total Reclaim (AKA Ecolights NW) in Georgetown from 9 a.m. until the late afternoon. Show up whenever you can for however long you can, but it would…
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Help load a shipping container full of donated bikes for the Village Bicycle Saturday
The Village Bicycle Project sends bikes to villages in Ghana and Sierra Leone where people often do not have an easy means of getting around. The organization also trains locals in bike repair skills and sends them tools. They focus on the special needs of the girls and women and the ways bicycles can help…
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