Just a reminder that you have just over a month to register for the third annual Bike to Work Breakfast happening Tuesday, April 24, at the Grand Hyatt, downtown Seattle.
Last year included a variety of speakers, including State Representative Ed Murray, King County Executive Ron Sims, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, and Group Health Cooperative CEO […]
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Bike to work Breakfast
March 16th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: news · advocacy · commute · education
Gloves that you blow into to warm
January 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments
So check these out. Gorgonz has gloves that you can blow into to warm them up. Given the nasty cold weather we’ve had lately this sounds like the perfect bit of gear.
Gorgonz’s Exhale Heating System is based on the way people blow into their hands to warm them up. You breathe into the […]
Chaining up?
January 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Found an interesting comment/post over at BikePortland.org:
“Before departing, I attached zip-ties around the rear wheel of my trusty fixedgear - one between each spoke, wrapping around the tire and rim. Just like chaining up. It worked great, even on the packed snow.”
Sounds so good I figured I’d share here. Good luck everyone out in […]
Chasing the owl
January 9th, 2007 · No Comments
No, I’m not tossing out drug slang. I literally chased an owl the other day.
The sun was setting and it was dark as I started riding up the Burke toward Kenmore and my folks’ house (that would make it, what, 4:00 in the afternoon? Jesus I can’t wait for summer). Somewhere […]
Seattle rolls out Bicycle Master Plan
December 8th, 2006 · No Comments
The Times has the latest details on the BMP draft and the meeting that was held this week to unveil it. Here are some of the proposed projects:
• A Ballard bicycle bridge next to the four-lane street bridge.
• An overpass crossing Interstate 5 in the new Chief Sealth Trail corridor, linking Beacon Hill […]
Yellow Card
December 6th, 2006 · No Comments
Perhaps something to stock up on for the commutes? Holiday stocking stuffers even?
From Peter Miller:
Here is a pdf of the Magnetic Yellow Card. This project is open source, which means that I am supplying everyone with the means to make their own magnets. Feel free to upload this pdf to any magnet-maker of your […]
A peek at the Master Plan?
November 28th, 2006 · No Comments
Someone over at The Stranger was passed a final draft of the Seattle Bicycle Master plan.
“The plan recommends expanding Seattle’s networked bike trails from 69 miles to 162 miles over the next five years, outlines exactly where new bike lanes and mixed-use trails should go, suggests that certain streets become “bicycle boulevards,” fixes the Burke-Gilman […]
Tags: news · advocacy · urban · commute
Non-skid coated street plates for downtown?
October 16th, 2006 · No Comments
A Seattle PI reader asks about the safety of those heavy steel plates.
After a painful crash on a steel plate on Dexter Avenue near Mercer Street in Seattle, Sean Sheldrake worries about the safety of those heavy plates placed over holes dug in the pavement to allow underground work.
His Exhibit A is “the two-block-long ‘bicycle […]
Tags: urban · commute · safety
Bumps in the plan
September 3rd, 2006 · No Comments
Latest Times Op-Ed on the Bicycle Master Plan:
“Seattle often places high in rankings of the best cities for bicycling. But that has a lot to do with the reputation created by the early start of the still-unfinished Burke-Gilman Trail. Especially for those getting around city neighborhoods, Seattle has fallen far behind neighbors Portland and Vancouver, […]
Tags: advocacy · urban · commute
Myrtle Edwards Park closing for 3 weeks
September 3rd, 2006 · No Comments
Access to Myrtle Edwards Park from Broad Street and Alaskan Way will be closed from Monday, October 2 through Friday, October 20, 2006, to accommodate the construction on the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park. There will be a temporary, one-day reopening of the pedestrian access on Saturday, October 7 for the Seattle Hospitality Oncology […]