Tag: outdoors for all
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City announces new scooter and bike share permits: Spin and Wheels are out, Bird is in
Spin and Wheels have not received permits to operate in Seattle under the city’s 2022–2023 permit, SDOT announced. But for the first time, scooter company Bird will operate here. LINK scooters have retained their permit, as have Lime’s scooters and bikes. The most recent entrant into Seattle, Veo, has also retained its permit for its…
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SDOT partners with Outdoors For All to offer free adaptive bike rentals all summer
Bike share is amazing. Just beep a bike with your phone, and you’re riding wherever you want to go for a few nickels per minute. That is, of course, if you are physically able to operate the app and ride a two-wheeled sit-up style pedal bike. That’s why Seattle is using part of the permit…
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Spoke & Food 2014: Bike to dinner Tuesday to support Outdoors For All
You won’t find an easier way to raise money for Outdoors For All than this. The fifth annual Spoke & Food bike-to-dinner fundraiser is Tuesday, and it’s really that simple: Bike to dinner at one of the many participating restaurants around town between 5 and 10 p.m. Tuesday, and they will donate 20 percent of…
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Adaptive cycling and safe infrastructure can be tools to help overcome disability
If you are nearsighted and live in a place where eyeglasses are easy to find, it is not a big problem. If you cannot get glasses where you live, being nearsighted becomes a disability. Disabilities are in large part a social construct, and Elly Blue’s most recent column for Grist looks at ability and the…
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Legally blind downhill mountian biker in town for film screening
Bobby McMullen is a competitive downhill mountain biker who makes his way through the courses not being able to tell a valley from a drop-off. He is legally blind and makes his way by following a guide who helps talk him through the challenges. Incredible. He will be at REI tonight (July 15) for a…
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