The Tour de Fat's long-running costumed celebration of bikes and beer won't be rousing the inner-cyclist of Seattle and Portland this year.
New Belgium Brewery's popular traveling bicycle-beer fest is bypassing the Pacific Northwest's two great bicycling cities to add Durham, NC, and Nashville, TN, to its 13-city nationwide tour (full list and dates below).
The news will be a disappointment to the 4,000-some bike lovers in Seattle and the smaller crowd of 1,750 in Portland last year who rode in the bike parade, and enjoyed the entertainers, beer and goofy bikes that made the show special.
As a fund-raiser to local bicycle-oriented nonprofits, the loss the Tour de Fat in Seattle and Portland also will affect the bottom line at local bike charities ….
Seattle cyclist Don Cox has developed a product that every wet weather Pacific Northwest cyclist can appreciate. Mud flaps.
That's not real sexy, but very useful in a region that averages 140 days of “measureable precipitation” every year.
I was introduced to Don Cox and his RainyDayBiking mud flaps on one of those days that exhibited an extreme amount of “measureable precipitation.”
When I biked through the rain to the Seattle Bike Expo on Saturday, I was soaked from head to toe. As I dripped across the lobby and followed the crowds upstairs, his RainyDayBiking booth was the first I noticed. Given the name, I reckoned this guy might have something I'd be interested in. ….
Dripping and soaked from head to foot as I entered the 2011 Seattle Bike Expo on Saturday, the first booth I saw displayed the name Rainy Day Biking.
The name spoke to me, as I had just finished an hour-and-a-half bike ride from Bellevue to the Smith Cove Terminal in the pouring rain.
I spoke to exhibitor Don Cox about his product — a high visibility reflective mud flap that also helps keep the water out of your shoes — and bought a set of front and rear flaps that read: “Save the Planet. Ride a Bike.”
The Seattle Bike Expo, which wraps up on Sunday, is that kind of a bike show….
The Seattle Bicycle Expo rolls out at the Smith Cove Cruise Terminal on Saturday and Sunday with some new speakers and exhibits, as well as some favorites from previous years.
The familiar includes a return of last year's artistic cyclist performers Corrina Hein riding solo and Stefan Musu and Lukas Matla riding as a duo (see video at left). World class bike stunt performer Ryan Leech also will perform.
Also many of the scores of exhibitors and retail booths will return this year to peddle their wares and inform about upcoming bike rides and tours.
But the Expo organizers at the Cascade Bicycle Club are offering a full slate of new presentations and exhibits to keep things fresh this year ….
Although I've participated in six or seven Chilly Hilly bicycle rides in my 10 years in the Seattle area, I'm always one of those in the last-minute registration line near the ferry terminal.
Not this year, however. I registered early and received my packet in the mail well before Sunday.
It was still sitting there, unopened, on the kitchen table when I returned from the airport Sunday night. My wife's father died after a long illness last week, and we had flown back East. That's why there were so few updates on this blog lately.
I soon learned that I had missed one of the worst — or best — Chilly Hilly bike rides in recent memory. My biking buddy Kazuki told me he ran into snow, rain and fierce headwinds on this year's ride ….
A road rage incident between a motorist and a bicyclist dating back to October in Redmond, Wash., has led to a flaming torrent of anti-bicyclist commentary.
Reading through more than a hundred comments at the Seattle Times, I despair for a solution between the bicyclist-motorist animosity anytime soon.
According to published accounts, a Redmond man has been charged with first-degree malicious mischief after he allegedly threw his bicycle at a car whose driver had honked at him ….
An historic auto road that goes deep into the Mount Rainier National Park will be permanently converted into a trail for bicyclists and hikers under a plan announced by the park service on Friday.
The Carbon River Road in the northwest end of the park has been closed to auto traffic since 2006 because of a series of damaging floods. It has remained open, when possible, as far as the Isput Creek Campground for hikers and bikers.
Under the new plan, an effort will be made to retain as much of the historic road as possible. Trails that connect those old road sections along the Carbon River will be upgraded for bicycle use.
That 5-mile-long road was originally built in 1921. It connected the park entrance ….
The surf's up for 2011 Cycle Oregon as the week-long bicycle tour pays a visit to the Pacific Coast for a couple of days on its Sept. 10-17 loop route around the southwestern part of the state.
Organizers announced the route Tuesday night and immediately began taking registrations in-person and online for the 2,200 alloted spots. The 2010 bicycle tour sold out in less than a week.
Registration also opened up for the weekend ride, which is scheduled July 15-17 and based on the campus of Willamette University in Salem.
It might be hard to believe, but the 24th annual week-long bicycle tour will be riding routes …
Thursday is the day that corporate lobbyists for the transportation industry take a back seat to those voters seeking better choices in transportation policy at the Washington state capitol in Olympia.
Transportation Choices Coalition is organizing the Transportation Advocacy Day for people to meet their legislators and press for more funding and support for bicycling, walking and transit issues.
The coalition is setting up carpools from Seattle and shuttle buses from the Amtrak station. ….
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The Tour de Fat's long-running costumed celebration of bikes and beer won't be rousing the inner-cyclist of Seattle and Portland this year.
Seattle cyclist Don Cox has developed a product that every wet weather Pacific Northwest cyclist can appreciate. Mud flaps.
Dripping and soaked from head to foot as I entered the 2011 Seattle Bike Expo on Saturday, the first booth I saw displayed the name Rainy Day Biking.
Keep your head down on the Lake Washington bike trail between Newcastle and Renton this weekend.
Although I've participated in six or seven Chilly Hilly bicycle rides in my 10 years in the Seattle area, I'm always one of those in the last-minute registration line near the ferry terminal.
The surf's up for 2011 Cycle Oregon as the week-long bicycle tour pays a visit to the Pacific Coast for a couple of days on its Sept. 10-17 loop route around the southwestern part of the state.
Thursday is the day that corporate lobbyists for the transportation industry take a back seat to those voters seeking better choices in transportation policy at the Washington state capitol in Olympia.
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