Tag: swift industries

November 23, 2020

Cranksgiving 2020 is now rolling. You have until Saturday to complete the scavenger hunt

The after-party is live! Watch: It’s on. Seattle’s 11th Annual Cranksgiving community-supporting bike adventure is rolling all week. Find your online scavenger hunt manifest here. You have until 3 p.m. Saturday to complete as many of the tasks as possible. You are then invited to an online after-party starting at 3. As with every Seattle…
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tagged: cranksgiving, cranksgiving 2020, ellis foundation, facing homelessness, rainier valley food bank, seattle pedaling relief project, swift industries
March 19, 2020

Watch: Swift Industries launches the Social Distance Cycling Club

Transcript (auto-generated .txt) When they had to cancel their regular social bike rides due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Swift Industries got creative. At first they laughed when Swift Founder Martina Brimmer suggested starting the Swift Social Distance Cycling Club. But then, after thinking about it a bit more, she realized it’s actually a pretty good…
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tagged: martina brimmer, swift industries, video
November 25, 2019

Seattle’s 10th Cranksgiving smashes the attendance record + Photos UPDATE: More than 1 ton donated!

I thought it was a bit strange that the line for the two sign-up clipboards was so long. I had used the same forms for nine Cranksgivings before, and the line to sign in was never that long before. So it was a good thing that I made so many extra spoke cards … except…
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tagged: bike works, bikery, cascade bicycle club, cascade designs, cranksgiving, cranksgiving 2019, facing homelessness, rainier valley food bank, swift industries, tara migliore
November 11, 2019

Seattle’s 10th Annual Cranksgiving is November 23

That’s right, this will be the tenth (!!!!) Cranksgiving Seattle Bike Blog has organized. I have had to do the math a bunch of times because I find it hard to believe, but it’s true. So this will be the tenth year people from all over the region will get together the Saturday before Thanksgiving…
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tagged: bikery, cranksgiving, cranksgiving 2019, rainier valley food bank, swift industries, west seattle cranksgiving
September 12, 2019

Watch: The Path Less Pedaled visits Seattle (4 videos)

Russ and Laura from the wonderful bike adventuring YouTube channel the Path Less Pedaled were in town recently and made four videos documenting their time. And they are all great, of course. First, they toured R&E Cycles in the U District/Ravenna and the legendary Rodriguez Cycles manufacturing area in the basement. Then they joined a…
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tagged: bainbridge island, counterbalance, free range cycles, path less pedaled, rodriguez bicycles, swift industries
January 28, 2019

Stoked Spoke 2019 kicks off Wed. with ‘Women, Trans and Femme Riders in Early Cycling History’

Seattle’s annual bicycle adventure presentation series Stoked Spoke kicks off 2019 Wednesday with a unique look back at the early days of American cycling by Tessa Hulls. Swift Industries (a SBB sponsor) is once again hosting the series at the Rhino Room on Capitol Hill. You can catch the first event of the season Wednesday.…
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tagged: stoked spoke, swift industries, tessa hulls