Tag: videos
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Watch: Riding Bromptons with Best Side Cycling and talking about the transportation levy
Hanoch Yeung and I accidentally coordinated out outfits with our Brompton folding bikes, then rode around for a while talking about the state of bicycle infrastructure in Seattle and the need for voters to approve Prop 1, the Seattle Transportation Levy. Our conversation is probably the most in-depth I’ve gone into the politics behind the…
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Watch: The Best Sides of Cycling mini-documentary now online
If you missed the local screenings, you can now watch Philip Thangsombat’s mini-documentary The Best Sides of Cycling on the Best Side Cycling YouTube channel. The 20-minute film shows Hanoch Yeung biking from Seattle to Vancouver with his father and leading a group ride up a series of ridiculous hills. The result is a lovely…
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They did the thing I suggested at 9th and Mercer, and it almost works!
They did it! The Seattle Department of Transportation changed the order of the traffic signals at 9th Ave N and Mercer Street to allow straight traffic, the bike lane and the crosswalk to go before the left turns. This was an idea I first suggested more than six years ago shortly after the new Mercer…
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Watch: Bob Svercl highlights 5 good and 5 bad things in 2023 Seattle biking
I would like to add a 6th good thing about biking in Seattle in 2023: Bob Svercl.
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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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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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