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Entries from July 2006

Group Health Bicycle Saturday today.

July 8th, 2006 · No Comments

If you’re looking for something to do today, perhaps try this out:
Group Health Bicycle Saturdays and Sundays
Seattle Parks will close Lake Washington Boulevard between Mount Baker Beach and Seward Park to motorized vehicles from approximately 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the dates listed below. The view is great, and there are many places […]

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Tags: news · events

No charges yet in Critical Mass incident

July 7th, 2006 · No Comments

Steinbreuck: “The Metro officers have little or no experience with this type of activity or this type of event. And really didn’t belong there in the first place. I’m also concerned that they reportedly failed to identify themselves. From the pictures that I’ve seen it looked like a couple of thugs jumping out of an […]

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Tags: news · advocacy · accident report

Cascade 1200 rider update

July 6th, 2006 · No Comments

“Monday morning [June 26] at about 1:00 AM, Thai Nguyen and I were closing in on the Cascade 1200 overnight control in Quincy. We’d ridden 425 miles in 43 hours, were feeling strong, but looking forward to getting some sleep. We were on a straight stretch of road, well on the shoulder, with our lights […]

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Tags: news · accident report

Critical Mass mayhem

July 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

There’s been a lot of chatter this weekend about an incident that happened at Friday’s Critical Mass ride.
The Stranger blog writes:
“As I turned the corner, one beefy white guy got out of the van and ran after a guy sitting on a bike (he was not corking at that point). He was in the process […]

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Tags: news · advocacy · urban