Tag: riding reporter

March 22, 2012

How the Riding Reporter got her stolen bike back

Remember how the biking gods turned against Seattle’s Riding Reporter a few weeks ago? First she got doored, then her cyclocross bike was stolen. Well, things are looking up. A bike commuter and racer spotted her Redline Conquest parked in a suspicious spot at his workplace recently. Thinking that the bike might be lost or…
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tagged: bike thefts, riding reporter
March 12, 2012

A couple weeks after getting doored, thief steals Riding Reporter’s bike

It’s been a month of outrageously bad luck for Anne-Marije Rook (AKA the Riding Reporter and editor of the Ballard News Tribune). Weeks after getting doored, someone stole her bike and several belonging to her neighbors. First, she got doored on Roosevelt while riding in the bike lane. The wreck hurt her shoulder and trashed…
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tagged: bike thefts, fremont, riding reporter, wrecks
February 29, 2012

Riding Reporter: Interview with Seattle Bike Polo founder Matt Messenger

The Riding Reporter has an interview with Matt Messenger, one of the original Seattle Bike Polo players who helped elevate the game to the international phenomenon it is today. Since the lights at the Cal Anderson Bike Polo Court will not be working for another week and a half due to delayed electrical work, you…
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tagged: 206 bike polo, bike polo, matt messenger, riding reporter
January 19, 2012

Snow won’t stop the Riding Reporter (and many others) + VIDEO

The Riding Reporter‘s Anne-Marije Rook made this video yesterday in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood: With powdery snow on the ground and most cars staying in driveways or buried under snow in the streets, many of the adventurous souls who ventured out on two wheels yesterday described the experience as a biking paradise. OK, maybe “paradise”…
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tagged: anne-marije rook, mike lindblom, phinney ridge, riding reporter, seattle times, snow, video, west seattle
November 8, 2011

Riding Reporter: Ballard designer making wool cycling apparel for winter

Biking five miles to her apparel design classes at Seattle Central Community College, Katharine Andrews learned the power of wool in the the rain. So she founded Telaio, which makes stylish wool clothing for everyday cycling. The Riding Reporter’s Anne-Marije Rook spoke to Andrews about her Ballard-based business. From the Riding Reporter: Telaio founder and…
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tagged: anne-marije rook, ballard, business, fremont, hub and bespoke, riding reporter, swift industries, telaio
August 15, 2011

Riding Reporter: A ride with a pedicab tour guide

In keeping with today’s unofficial theme, here’s another person around town making the bicycle economy happen. Anne-Marije Rook from the Ballard News Tribune took a spin with Sacsha Toda-Peters , a pedicab driver with attitude and great knowledge of the history of rickshaws in Seattle. From the BNT: Wearing a crisp white button-up shirt, a colorfully…
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tagged: anne-marije rook, ballard news tribune, bicycle economy, riding reporter