Category: Northwest Cycling
A new section of trail that connects the High Point Trail and the Preston-Snoqualmie Trail in eastern King County is complete and will be unveiled this week.
State highway crews started on the project in June, and officials will mark the completion of the 1.2-mile packed-gravel trail at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the west end of the connector trail.
The regional trail is the latest addition in the Mountains to Sound Greenway. It will be maintained as part of the King County Regional Trails system.
The trail closes a gap in the network of bicycle trails that connect Golden Gardens Park on Puget Sound to an overlook for Snoqualmie Falls. These trails include the Burke Gilman ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/12/12/missing-link-completed-for-bikers-and-hikers-near-issaquah/
With only a “chance” of rain this weekend, you might enjoy loading a container with bicycles on Saturday and a mustache bike ride this Sunday. Both are free.
The Village Bicycle Project is loading a shipping container headed to Ghana beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday at Total Reclaim, 1915 South Corgiat Drive. Here are the directions to the loading event.
For all of you who let your whiskers grow under your nose for Movember, Go Means Go is sponsoring a Free Mustache Ride on Sunday …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/12/03/seattle-weekend-recycling-bikes-and-mustache-bike-ride/
Thirty bicyclists rolled up to the Rainier Valley Food Bank in Seattle on Saturday afternoon with their backpacks, trailers and panniers loaded with hundreds of food items.
Their arrival marked the finish of Seattle's Cranksgiving food drive, an inaugural event here that has to be judged a huge success.
Not two weeks ago, Seattle Bike Blog editor Tom Fucoloro had read about a dozen Cranksgiving bike-ride food-drives across the nation and was disappointed there was nothing in Seattle. Although he had never sponsored a bike ride before, he decided to start a Cranksgiving in Seattle …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/21/seattle-cyclists-spin-through-town-for-cranksgiving-food-drive/
A week ago Monday I wrote a post about a dozen Cranksgiving bike rides rolling out around the U.S. this month to collect Thanksgiving items for local food banks.
Some, like the one in St. Louis, draw upwards of 800 cyclists. Unfortunately, I couldn't find such a ride for Seattle.
Tom Fucoloro over at the Seattle Bike Blog read the story and immediately started to make it happen. Thanks to his efforts, Seattle's First Cranksgiving will happen this coming Saturday.
Here are the details…..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/16/seattles-cranksgiving-food-drive-bike-ride-is-saturday/
The Livestrong Foundation is cutting back its Livestrong Challenge Series to three cities in 2011 — Philadelphia, Austin and one in California.
That leaves the Pacific Northwest out of the mix for the first time in six years. Portland hosted an event from 2005 to 2008, and Seattle had the event in 2009 and 2010.
During that time, the six charity bike rides engaged some 11,000 participants to raise funds for the cancer research and survivorship program of the foundation created by Lance Armstrong.
About 1,600 cyclists and runners …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/12/2011-livestrong-challenge-bike-ride-cities-named-seattle-not-on-list/
Whenever I read a long-range forecast for the upcoming winter in the Pacific Northwest, each one says wetter than normal — expect streams and rivers to overflow their banks for widespread flooding.
Must be time to look into the amphibious bicycle. Just ride along down your favorite road, deploy the floaties when you hit deep standing water, and pedal on.
Floating bicycles are not unheard of. I easily found a patent for one dating to 1981. Forbes.com touts an inventor from India who put one together over a three-day period during the monsoon season in his region. At the opposite end of the spectrum is the high-tech amphibious bike created by students at the University of Southampton …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/06/is-this-the-winter-for-amphibious-bicycles-in-the-pacific-northwest/
Although summer seems like a long way off, across-state bike tour organizers are updating their routes for next year's events.
In the past week, Cascades Bicycle Club's Ride Around Washington (RAW) and the Argus-Leader's Tour de Kota announced their 2011 mass-participation bike rides. Each one is in excess of 400 miles.
The Cascade Bicycle Club's Ride Around Washington (RAW) bike tour returns to the Cranberries to Apples themed route ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/10/31/routes-unveiled-for-ride-around-washington-and-tour-de-kota-bicycle-tours/
Year in and year out, the name Paul O. Wantzelius always has been listed on the roster of cyclists riding the Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic.
For at least a decade, Wantzelius and Jerry Baker have been the only two cyclists riding the STP in consecutive years who were among the original 70 riders on the 200-mile bike ride the first time in 1979.
Wantzelius passed away in Hope, BC, on his way home from the Tour de Lacs bike ride in eastern Washington last month.
The Maple Valley resident had just announced his retirement from Boeing ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/10/30/paul-otto-wantzelius-1949-2010-memorial-service-planned/
Three years of legal wrangling has ended after the Washington state Department of Transportation agreed to pay $8 million to a bicyclist who became paralyzed after his bike tire got caught between two steel grates and he fell.
The state, which operates the Montlake Bridge south of the University of Washington campus in Seattle, did not admit fault for the crash.
The $8 million will pay for medical and therapy costs of Mickey Gendler, a once active environmental attorney for a firm in Seattle. His battle to rehabilitate to the point where he struggles to use a walker ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/10/26/seattle-bicyclist-awarded-8-million-in-bridge-crash/
The Seattle-based Cascade Bicycle Club has suspended the election for the board of directors until March due to bylaws violations.
Board member Jim Oswald made the announcement at, by all reports, a highly contentious membership meeting Thursday night. He said the board will expand to 15 members from its current 11 members, and nominations are welcome.
Unfortunately, I was unable to attend because of long-standing commitments so I can't contribute any first-hand observations. Tom Fucoloro has a story over at Seattle Bike Blog: “Cascade Director: If I get fired for protecting my staff, then so be it.” Publicola also has a running account of the meeting at its Twitter feed, PublicolaNews.
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/10/22/re-thursday-night-cascade-membership-meeting/
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