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From our Bike Events Calendar
Nov20Wed5:30 pm The Urbanist: November volunteer...The Urbanist: November volunteer...Nov 20 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pmJoin The Urbanist and the Seattle Neighborhood Greenways (SNG) on November 20th at 5:30pm for our Monthly Volunteer Event! We’ll be in the mood for Thanksgiving, and will be making Thank You cards for City Councilmembers, SDOT staff, and community … Continue reading6:00 pm GET SPOKED! WOMXN, TRANS, GENDER... @ Bike Works WarehouseGET SPOKED! WOMXN, TRANS, GENDER... @ Bike Works WarehouseNov 20 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Every THIRD Wednesday of the month from 6 – 9 PM, we’re hosting a Volunteer Repair Party (VRP)/Open Shop specifically for folks who identify as women, trans, or gender non-binary to come together in an inclusive space to repair bikes … Continue readingNov21Thu6:30 pm Bike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsBike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsNov 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 readingNov23Sat9:30 am 10th Annual Cranksgiving! @ Occidental Ave (near CenturyLink Field)10th Annual Cranksgiving! @ Occidental Ave (near CenturyLink Field)Nov 23 @ 9:30 am – 3:00 pmSeattle Bike Blog’s 10th Annual Cranksgiving Event!More information here: https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2019/11/11/seattles-10th-annual-cranksgiving-is-november-23/Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/956604328058371/This will be the tenth year people from all over the region will get together the Saturday before Thanksgiving to bike around town buying groceries to donate to Rainier Valley Food … Continue reading
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Berger: 20 bike shops on 2nd Ave and plans for bike paths all over the city? Welcome to 1900 Seattle
Crosscut’s Knute Berger has started a series about urbanism in Seattle with a piece exploring the first bicycle boom in the city. Around the turn of the 20th century, bicycling was so popular that an estimated 10,000 of the city’s … Continue reading
International Women’s Day reading: Bicycles and equality
Anne-Marije Rook wrote up a little post on her blog about women and bicycling in honor of International Women’s Day. If you have never read about the link between bicycles and women’s sufrage and social equality, I’d say now is … Continue reading
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Biking around Seattle in the 1890s
With the help of Phyllis Franklin from the Museum of History and Industry, the P.I.’s Big Blog has a great little history of biking in Seattle (click the link to see an awesome photo): You think bicycling is challenging in … Continue reading