Category: Northwest Cycling
In spite of morning clouds, the sun shone in places where it doesn't usually shine on Saturday at the Summer Solstice Parade in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood.
About 100 cyclists wearing only body paint and a smile pedaled down the parade route in advance of the official Summer Solstice Parade presented by the Fremont Arts Council.
Although they've faced some rocky issues with the police department over the years, this 16th appearance by the Painted Cyclists seemed to be tolerated by the bike police who were on hand. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/17/naked-painted-cyclists-enjoy-the-sun-in-fremont-solstice-parade/
Mike Grenville
at flickr.comA few weeks ago I wrote that Seattle's contingent of World Naked Bike Ride was struggling to find a date for the ride because so many naked/painted-body bike rides were scheduled around the same time.
While many cities chose Saturday for the demonstration, Seattle riders must have been relieved the ride was rescheduled here, what with a constant drizzle and temperatures hovering in the low 50s.
Seattle's official date for its World Naked Bike Ride is July 14, with a corresponding night ride on June 30, Critical Mass. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/10/naked-bike-ride-schedule-all-squared-away-for-seattle/
When you're half dozing after a long bike ride and you hear someone say, “I saw whales!” there are only a few places you could be.
One of them is San Juan Island, the main island of a cluster that sit in Washington State's Puget Sound hard by the Canadian border.
The small islands — San Juan, Lopez, and Orcas — are popular with bicyclists and many bicycle touring companies make a good business running cyclists out to the islands, feeding them, bedding them down at bed & breakfast inns, and sagging a few up some of the steeper hills. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/06/take-a-bike-vacation-on-san-juan-island-in-washingtons-puget-sound/
(Updates bike stops)The Mercer Island police department has been kind enough to get back to me regarding where they're targeting stop-sign enforcement and what bicyclists should consider as a full stop.
Mercer Island police Cmdr. Leslie Burns says the department will concentrate its enforcement actions at locations where they get the most complaints.
For bicyclists running stop signs, that's been at 84th Avenue SE and SE 24th Street (the entrance to Luther Burbank Park) and the four-way stop at SE 24th Street and West Mercer Way. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/31/mercer-island-update-where-is-enforcement-what-is-a-stop/
Pedaling along Lake Washington Boulevard in Kirkland this afternoon, I stumbled across a series of Dan Henry circles with the No. 7 inside.
Seven hills, count 'em
It reminded me that the 7 Hills of Kirkland bike ride is coming up on Monday. (It also reminded me I had neglected to put it in the Biking Bis bike ride calendar for Washington state.)
In its ninth year, this popular ride skirts the eastside of Lake Washington and the inland hills sculpted by glaciers eons ago. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/25/7-hills-of-kirkland-bike-ride-is-memorial-day/
Sunny skies, crisp temperatures. What's not to like about a bicycle ride on a day like Friday in the Puget Sound, even if you are commuting to work?
Thousands of cyclists took to the streets in the Puget Sound this morning to participate in the 2007 Bike to Work Day.
The Cascade Bicycle Club was looking for 10,000 people to ride to work. Cities across the nation were looking at similar numbers on a day when gasoline prices set a record for the fourth straight day. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/18/seattle-area-bike-commuters-hit-the-road-for-bike-to-work-day/
You may have already seen this ad popping up on billboards and buses in the Puget Sound region asking motorists to give cyclists 3 feet of space when passing.
It's an awareness campaign aimed at motorists and funded in part by a federal grant given to the Cascade Bicycle Club Education Foundation in 2006.
Several states, Texas is the latest, have put the 3-foot clearance law in the books. But the state of Washington has had it in another book for awhile, the Washington State Driver's Guide. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/16/seattle-ad-campaign-says-give-3-feet-to-bicycles/
Saturday was the first day this year that Seattle closed a 4-mile stretch of Lake Washington Boulevard to car traffic so bicyclists could ride free and safe along the lakefront road (see schedule below for more dates).
I pedaled over and saw all stripes of cyclists taking advantage of the car-free day — called Group Health Bicycle Saturday & Sunday — provided through the cooperation of Seattle Parks and Rec, Group Health, and the Cascade Bicycle Club.
Several were strong riders, stumbling upon it by accident, as they incorporate this stretch into their loops around the lake. But the majority were slower recreational bicycle riders …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/12/seattle-bikes-take-over-lake-washington-boulevard-on-saturday/
Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond is scheduled to participate in next weekend's Tour de Cure activities at Marymoor Park in Redmond.
The one-day bike ride on May 19 is a fund-raiser for the American Diabetes Association. Ride participants who have raised and submitted $2,500 or more by Saturday, May 12, will each receive two invitations to a reception held by LeMond on the evening of May 18.
Although LeMond makes his home in Minneapolis, he makes business trips to the Seattle area about every six weeks or so to visit the LeMond Fitness company headquarters …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/11/redmond-greg-lemond-at-marymoor-next-weekend/
I probably should have checked my brake pads before I nearly ran into the side of a moving car at the corner shopping center the other day.
When the snow and freezing temperatures hit the Pacific Northwest this winter, the street and highway departments answered the challenge by dumping tons of sand on the pavement.
No one has come along to sweep away that accumulated sand, except for me and my bike rims. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/10/brake-shoe-replacement-time/
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