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From our Bike Events Calendar
Dec10Tueall-day US Cyclocross Nationals @ Fort Steilacoom ParkUS Cyclocross Nationals @ Fort Steilacoom ParkDec 10 – Dec 15 all-day
It’s been 23 years since the last US Cyclocross National Championships have taken place in Washington State and in 2019 the City of Lakewood and Ft. Steilacoom Park welcome national championship racing beginning Tuesday, December 10th through Sunday December 15th. … Continue readingDec15Sun10:00 am Bike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsBike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsDec 15 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 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 reading11:00 am Dongho’s Favorite Things of 2019Dongho’s Favorite Things of 2019Dec 15 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pmA walking tour of notable projects completed in 2019 with the City’s chief traffic engineer Dongho Chang. Starting at the Starbucks at 2011 7th Ave R2, Seattle and covering improvements in the Denny Triangle, South Lake Union, and Uptown neighborhoods. … Continue reading
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After six years documenting bike culture, Cohen ends The Bicycle Story
For the past six years, Seattle’s Josh Cohen has been documenting bicycle culture and inspiring people powering cycling movements on his excellent blog and podcast series The Bicycle Story. So when Cohen announced this week that he is putting The … Continue reading
Listen: The Bicycle Story podcast takes on the history of the sharrow
Seattle’s unofficial motto could easily be “The City of the Sharrow.” Keegan Hamilton at the Seattle Weekly once suggested the Seattle Sharrows as a name for a D-League basketball team. And sure, why not? Take one glance at major streets … Continue reading
Saturday: Join us for a screening of Bike vs Cars and an after-show chat
Bikes vs Cars is a new documentary that attempts to lay out the global and local problems caused by car culture and car infrastructure in our cities and how people in cities across the world are pushing back, often while … Continue reading
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The Bicycle Story: Bill Davidson on making bike frames in Seattle since the 70s
Bill Davidson has been building bike frames in Seattle since 1973, and he didn’t let little details like nobody here knowing how to do it (and, therefore, able to teach him) get in his way (Rodriguez and Erickson also started … Continue reading
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The Bicycle Story: Former Mayor McGinn on Seattle’s ‘bikelash’
Maybe it needs to happen in every town on its way to taking bicycling seriously as a mode of transportation: Bikelash. It’s a clever term to describe a period of public outrage over bicycling projects when neighbors believe that the … Continue reading
The Bicycle Story: Colin Stevens is Seattle’s ‘Bicycling Mad Scientist’
Colin Stevens is one part of Cycle Fab, a Georgetown-based machine shop that does all kinds of custom metalworking and bicycle stuff. But he made a name for himself as Haulin’ Colin, designing and building high-capacity bike trailers and workhorse … Continue reading
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Cohen: 2nd Ave protected bike lanes ‘just the beginning’
You don’t have to bike for very long in Seattle before you figure out the most dangerous kind of street: “Downhill streets with on-street parking and turning movements at intersections: Those are problems that Second Ave had,” Cascade Bicycle Club’s … Continue reading
Bike share for everyone, Part 1: Closing Seattle’s cycling gender gap
Pronto Cycle Share is on schedule to launch in September, bringing 500 public bikes into Seattle’s dense central neighborhoods and the U District. With its launch, Pronto could change the way people get around in Seattle and put city cycling … Continue reading
Failed transportation revenue package puts statewide bike funding at risk
On March 13, the Washington State Legislature adjourned with the passage of an 11th-hour supplemental spending plan. The supplemental budget maintains the status quo for statewide bicycle and pedestrian funding for the remainder of this biennium. But, thanks in large … Continue reading
The Bicycle Story: Adonia Lugo talks transportation equity
Josh Cohen at The Bicycle Story recently interviewed Adonia Lugo, a friend, bicycle anthropologist and all-around bad ass who lives on Capitol Hill. Chatting and working with Adonia and Davey Oil (who blogs at Riding on Roadways) has done a … Continue reading
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Why do you ride?
I ride a bike because sometimes, the most direct route by bike looks like this. Both Dan Bertolet and Josh Cohen wrote posts over at Publicola about some reasons why they ride bikes. Often, bike advocacy seems to concentrate on … Continue reading