Tag: videos

November 21, 2023

Watch: Best Side Cycling rides Cranksgiving

Hanoch Yeung rode Cranksgiving for his first time and documented the whole thing. As the organizer, I have never actually ridden Cranksgiving myself. So I loved getting a glimpse of what it’s like. Check it out. And be sure to subscribe to Best Side Cycling on YouTube.
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tagged: best side cycling, cranksgiving 2023, hanoch yeung, videos
July 5, 2023

Watch: Bill Nye rants about highways in 1995 (full segment)

This is not the first time we’ve posted a Bill Nye video on this site, and I doubt it will be the last. The prolific entertainer and engineer best known for serving on the Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board also had a little-known KCTS science show for children that was widely syndicated and made him a…
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tagged: bill nye, carpoolio, kcts, videos
May 12, 2023

A traffic jam on Seattle’s new Belltown Neighborhood Highway

It is the year 2023, and Seattle just opened a new highway through the dense and walkable Belltown neighborhood. For five years, there was no connection between Alaskan Way on the waterfront and Western Ave in Belltown, and traffic was working about at well as it ever does. But this month, Seattle opened a new…
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tagged: belltown, videos, waterfront seattle, western ave
April 19, 2023

Watch: We know this street design is deadly, so why do we keep building them this way?

Seattle’s recent Vision Zero review noted that 80% of people killed while walking on Seattle streets are killed on streets with multiple lanes in the same direction. So why are we on the verge of opening a brand new streets through Belltown near Pike Place Market with multiple lanes in the same direction? I ride…
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tagged: belltown, pike place market, sdot, videos, vision zero, waterfront, western ave, wsdot
March 15, 2023

Watch: Take a history tour of North Beacon Hill by bike

Bob Svercl’s latest video is a bike ride around North Beacon Hill focused on some history highlights of the area. He even included a route map if you are inspired to ride to the featured areas yourself. This is the second history ride video Bob has created recently. Two months ago, he featured Queen Anne.…
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tagged: beacon hill, bob svercl, bobco85, history, videos
December 12, 2022

Watch: Biking Seattle to Spokane

Mike Mike Motorbike (Michael Valeri) released this wonderful video last week documenting a bike trip he and his friend Nick took from Seattle to Spokane over the summer. Our state is really something. They stuck mostly to the Palouse to Cascades Trail, though road riding is still required for many sections. The reconstructed Beverly Bridge…
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tagged: michael valeri, mike mike motorbike, palouse to cascades state park trail, videos