Tag: outdoors for all

May 13, 2022

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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tagged: bike share, outdoors for all, scooter share, sdot
May 8, 2019

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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tagged: adaptive bike share, adaptive cycling, bike share, outdoors for all, sdot
July 25, 2014

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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tagged: outdoors for all, spoke & food
July 22, 2011

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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tagged: adaptive cycling, disability, elly blue, neighborhood greenways, outdoors for all, tubulocity
July 15, 2011

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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tagged: bobby mcmullen, cascade bicycle club, events, evergreen mountain bike alliance, outdoors for all, the way bobby sees it