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Watch: Biking from Gas Works to Pike Place using only trails, protected bike lanes and very slow streets

Posted on December 8, 2021 by Tom Fucoloro

In the middle of the 2020 COVID shutdown, Seattle missed an opportunity to celebrate a remarkable achievement. With completion of the Bell Street protected bike lane and implementation of the Stay Healthy Street through the Bell Street Park, Seattle had … Continue reading →

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Watch: Fixing a flat the lazy way

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Tom Fucoloro

Seattle Bike Blog does not usually do bike tutorial stuff. There are many other excellent YouTube channels and online resources if you want to learn about bike maintenance and such. However, the vast majority of YouTube fix-a-flat tutorials start by … Continue reading →

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Watch: Searching for the 125-year-old Interlaken bike path

Posted on August 5, 2021 by Tom Fucoloro

In 1896, Seattle city crews and a group of volunteers worked together to build a bike path from downtown to Lake Washington. They made it quickly, following the terrain around the north end of Capitol Hill to find the easiest … Continue reading →

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Watch: Riding the new Green Lake bike lanes

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Tom Fucoloro

Crews are nearly finished upgrading one of the most important bike routes in Seattle. East Green Lake Way N may have a terribly confusing name, but it forms a hub of sorts for north end bike routes. The Interurban North … Continue reading →

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Watch: Touring the refreshed S Kenyon St neighborhood greenway with bobco85

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Tom Fucoloro

SDOT recently refreshed the S Kenyon Street neighborhood greenway, adding proper wayfinding and making other improvements to the 1.1-mile route. The greenway runs from Beacon Ave S to Seward Park Ave S, connecting to the Chief Sealth Trail, Renton Ave … Continue reading →

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Watch: Talking with Ryan Packer about being Editor for the winter

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Tom Fucoloro

Ryan Packer did a fantastic job taking the helm of Seattle Bike Blog over the winter, writing 64 posts December through March. Ryan was the Temporary Editor of Seattle Bike Blog while I focused on writing the first draft of … Continue reading →

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A video letter from a Peddler Brewing owner about the dangerous Ballard Bridge

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Tom Fucoloro

This video letter from Peddler Brewing co-owner Haley Woods to city leaders about the terrible state of walking and biking on the Ballard Bridge is funny, strange and yet very serious. The tiny sidewalks further encroached by concrete pillars, the … Continue reading →

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West Seattle traffic light is so long, bike commuter cooks breakfast burrito while waiting for it to change

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Tom Fucoloro

I would have at least added some cheese. This video features Don Brubeck of West Seattle Bike Connections. Clearly, people walking and biking are far from the priority at this terrible intersection where the Alki Trail, Chelan Ave, W Marginal, … Continue reading →

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Video from the 2014 Bicycle Pie Jousting Tournament

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Tom Fucoloro

Happy Friday, everyone! Enjoy this great video by Andrius Simutis of the 2014 April 1 Bicycle Pie Jousting Tournament at Sully’s Snowgoose Saloon in Phinney Ridge:

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West Seattle video series compares bike lights from the driver’s seat

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Tom Fucoloro

The good folks at West Seattle Bike Connections read our October post about bike lights (and how some are too bright to put on strobe mode on a bike trail) and noticed something missing: Demonstrations of how different lights actually … Continue reading →

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A quick look at the new bike lane on Roosevelt Way (VIDEO)

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Tom Fucoloro

The city this week is finally installing an uphill bike on Roosevelt Way between NE 75th Street and NE 85th Street. This closes a missing link in a popular bike route stretching from NE 125th Street to the University Bridge. … Continue reading →

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SDOT on how to use two-stage left turn boxes

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Tom Fucoloro

As part of the much-heralded Cherry Street protected bike lane project (you know, the one prompted by a now-famously polite crew of guerrilla bike advocates), the city also installed its first modern-style left turn box at the intersection of Cherry … Continue reading →

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Spokane’s Barb Chamberlain picked as new Bicycle Alliance Director

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Tom Fucoloro

Barb Chamberlain has been named as the new Executive Director of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington. She will take the helm of the statewide advocacy group as longtime director Barb Culp retires. I first saw Chamberlain in a 2010 talk … Continue reading →

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Seattle Bike Polo doc part of NY Bicycle Film Fest + Newbie Sundays at Cal Anderson

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Tom Fucoloro

One of the films featured in this weekend’s New York Bicycle Film Festival is a documentary about Seattle’s Bike Polo scene (h/t Biking Bis). We stake a claim to being the founding city for modern hardcourt bike polo, which is … Continue reading →

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Hundreds attend the largest ever Bike to Work Breakfast (+ video)

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Tom Fucoloro

Politicians, advocates and citizens packed the sold-out annual Bike to Work breakfast Friday morning in downtown Seattle, the largest crowd in the event’s history. The annual fundraiser breakfast kicks off Cascade Bicycle Club’s Bike Month events. This year’s keynote speaker … Continue reading →

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Sick Day Cinema: REI on cycling in Seattle

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Tom Fucoloro

It’s a sick day here at Seattle Bike Blog HQ, which is a huge bummer for this editor who has a ticket to see Jeff Mangum tonight at the Moore. I suppose I can wait 12 more years to see … Continue reading →

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Neighborhood Greenways TV: Seattle Channel + Panel discussion with SDOT leaders

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Tom Fucoloro

Seattle Channel’s City Stream featured the city’s push for family-friendly bike routes on a recent episode. You may even catch a glimpse of yours truly…

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Talking urban biking with Q13 News

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Tom Fucoloro

A couple weeks ago, some folks from Q13 News strapped cameras on my bike and my head, then drove near me, filming me as I rode around South Lake Union narrating some of the trials facing people biking in our … Continue reading →

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Sick Day Video Post – Biking from Capitol Hill to UW in 2008

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Tom Fucoloro

It’s a sick day here at Seattle Bike Blog HQ. So here’s a video from 2008 to discuss (posted to YouTube by schr0559): What I find fascinating about this video is that there are almost no bicycle features or facilities … Continue reading →

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Beacon Hill’s neighborhood greenways starting to grow

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Tom Fucoloro

Beacon BIKES has been hard at work since the release of their Family Bicycle and Pedestrian Circulation Plan this summer. SDOT has installed signage for one of the plan’s proposed neighborhood greenways on 17th and 18th Avenues S, according to … Continue reading →

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