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From our Bike Events Calendar
Aug23Fri7:30 am Seattle Bike Train Weekday Commu...Seattle Bike Train Weekday Commu...Aug 23 @ 7:30 am – 8:30 amInterested in using a bike to get downtown but unsure of what routes are safe and reluctant to explore on your own? There is strength in numbers! Beginning May 3, we are offering three rides on Fridays:Columbia City to Downtown via … Continue readingAug24Satall-day NW Epic Series Capitol Forest 14... @ Evergreen Sportsmen's ClubNW Epic Series Capitol Forest 14... @ Evergreen Sportsmen's ClubAug 24 all-day
To round out the season, we’re heading to one of our favorite riding places: Capitol Forest, home of some of the most amazing singletrack in Washington. We’d like to thank our non-profit partner, Friends of Capitol Forest, a mountain bike … Continue readingAug25Sun10:00 am Bike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsBike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsAug 25 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pmDetails: Volunteer Repair Parties (VRP) are drop-in, weekly bike repair parties for adults (age 18 and up). You do not need to be a skilled bike mechanic to help out. This is how most volunteers with Bike Works get their … Continue reading11:00 am Bike Works Warehouse Sale @ Bike Works WarehouseBike Works Warehouse Sale @ Bike Works WarehouseAug 25 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Volunteers are always welcome. Two shifts available (12 people for each shift): 10 AM-1:30 PM & 1:30-4:30 PM. Morning shift get first pick! Contact steveg@bikeworks.org It’s that time when bicycle enthusiasts and cycle-less people alike come together to dig through … Continue readingAug27Tue6:00 pm Rainier Valley Greenways Summer ... @ Columbia City Ale HouseRainier Valley Greenways Summer ... @ Columbia City Ale HouseAug 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pmInstead of a usual meeting this month, please join us for a beverage at the Columbia City Ale House Tuesday (8/27) at 6:00pm. Meet some neighbors, share summer adventure stories and start thinking about what’s in store for Rainier Valley … Continue reading
Tag Archives: walk bike schools
Dad who helped grow Seattle’s bike to school movement passes away. RIP Clint Loper
The day I first met Clint Loper, he was surrounded by an endless sea of kids biking off a Top Pot doughnut on their way to class at Bryant Elementary. Nearly a quarter of the school’s students biked to class … Continue reading
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Want to learn how to start a bike train to your local school? Cascade hosting workshop Saturday
Schools, teachers and parents across the Puget Sound region have started organizing bike trains in recent years, one key part of the bike-and-walk-to-school revolution. Essentially, bike trains are like walking school buses, but on wheels. Volunteers (often parents) lead a … Continue reading
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Loper: How Bike to School Month can inspire a shift in your school’s transportation culture
This Wednesday is opening day. Not only for Bike to Work Month, with its streams of bikers joining the Dexter peloton and filling the Burke-Gilman Trail. It’s also opening day for Bike to School Month, when schools throughout Seattle will … Continue reading
Loper: Group rides – kid style! How bike trains and after school clubs help kids become strong city bikers
One basic principle of elementary age bike to school programs is that each kid generally rides with one of their parents. Especially when the kids are in their first few years of school. As children get a little older and … Continue reading
Loper: Creating a biking and walking culture at Seattle’s schools
Editor’s Note: I’m pleased to welcome a new columnist to the Seattle Bike Blog lineup. Clint Loper has been a big force behind Seattle’s bike-to-school efforts in the last decade. Now biking and walking to school is growing so quickly, … Continue reading
A record 28 Safe Routes to School programs will be funded in 2013 – UPDATED
Walk.Bike.Schools posted a roundup of Safe Routes to School mini-grants that will help students all across the city more safely and easily get to school on foot or by bike. SDOT will fund 28 of 30 applications they received for … Continue reading
Learn how to encourage walking & biking to school in your neighborhood at Tuesday meeting in Ballard
Getting dropped off at school in your parent’s car is massively uncool. It’s 2012, and biking and walking to school is back in a big way. Though people have been pushing for more non-motorized school transportation for years, last school … Continue reading
City-wide Walk.Bike.Schools meeting Monday
Eckstein Middle School is one of the bikiest middle schools in the city in large part due to hard work from active parents who promote walking and biking. Some of the Walk.Bike.Schools parents and Eckstein Bikes are hosting a city-wide … Continue reading
Biking to Bryant Elementary up 50%, proof we can break the dangerous school drop-off cycle
143 Bryant Elementary students biked to school in May. That’s a quarter of the school population (not even counting the kids who walked). Anyone who has ever been near a school at drop-off or (worse) pick-up times has witnessed the … Continue reading
121 Bryant Elementary kids and parents biked to school today – UPDATED
Do you feel that? The city is approaching the bike-to-school tipping point. It’s happening. For a school that has a bit over 500 students enrolled, Bryant saw a school bike commute rate of well over ten percent today. If you … Continue reading
When bike trains collide, it’s heartwarming
This just in from Laurelhurst Elementary parent Kendall Wills: Just had a heart warming bike experience this a.m. I was biking in to school this morning with my kids and a neighbor girl on the Burke Gilman. We live in … Continue reading
Walk.Bike.Schools Update: Lots of energy at city-wide meeting + ‘Think Outside the Car’ Saturday in W Seattle
Walk.Bike.Schools held a city-wide kickoff meeting earlier this month that drew a packed house of parents from schools all around the city interested in helping more Seattle school kids walk or bike to school. I was not able to attend, … Continue reading
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Tonight: Ride with Bike Snob NYC + Citywide bike-to-school parents meet-up
Bike Snob is in town tonight promoting his newest tome, which has been described as a religious self-help book for bike commuters. The Enlightened Cyclist is the follow-up to Eben Weiss’s popular Bike Snob. Better yet, you have a chance … Continue reading
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Tagged 20/20 cycle, bike snob, bryant elementary, capitol hill, central district, eben weiss, elliott bay book co, walk bike schools
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