A Canadian Olympic medalist is carrying her message to end the stigma of mental illness by travelling across Canada by bicycle.
Six-time Olympic cycling and speed-skating medalist Clara Hughes set out on Clara’s Big Bike Ride from Toronto on March 14 to visit every province and territory in Canada. She’ll be visiting towns throughout British Columbia for the next couple …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/05/18/canadian-olympic-cyclist-brings-mental-illness-message-by-bicycle/
Spin the wheel and win a prize! That game was a big draw Friday morning at the Bike to Work Day commuter station staffed by Choose Your Way Bellevue.
Cyclists could score a blinking clip-on tail light, a velcro ankle band, or a white flexible headlight, among other swag. But whether they won something useful …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/05/16/puget-sound-cyclists-roll-out-for-bike-to-work-day/
BMC issued a recall notice for 160 Alpenchallenge, Masschallenge and Urbanchallenge model bicycles with Aprebic forks this week.
The carbon fiber forks can crack or break above the brake mounts. No crashes or injuries have been reported.
BMC and the Consumer Product Safety Commission urges owners to stop using the bicycles and to contact a local …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/05/16/fork-failure-sparks-bmc-bike-recall/
You can show your support for bicycling this Friday by riding your bicycle to work.
To help in this endeavor in the Seattle area, dozens of bike commuter stations will be set up from 6 to 9 a.m. during Bike to Work Day.
View Commute Stations — Bike to Work Day presented by F5 in …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/05/15/bike-to-work-day-is-friday-bike-commuter-stations-in-seattle-area/
The uncharacteristically sunny and dry weather in Sequim on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula always has made it a good destination for bicycling. Now there’s another reason.
The League of American Bicyclists announced today that the town of 6,624 has earned designation as a bicycle-friendly community.
There are currently 303 communities listed as bicycle friendly nationwide. Now …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/05/14/sequim-is-newest-bicycle-friendly-community-in-washington-state-joins-18-named-nationwide/
The last interruption of a completely off-road bicycle ride from the town of Snohomish to the Skagit County line is gone.
Crews in Arlington have rerouted and finished paving a one-mile segment of the Centennial Trail that previously had shared 67th Avenue with cars and trucks as it approached downtown from the south.
The completion …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/05/14/last-gap-on-centennial-trail-is-open-for-bicycle-traffic/
My friend Bruce unearthed this old photo of us walking across the sand at Virginia Beach after dipping our rear tires in the Atlantic Ocean to start our cross-country bicycle tour in 1984.
After our ceremony, we climbed in a car with our girlfriends and drove to Yorktown, Va., where we actually started our 11-week …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/05/13/odd-memories-from-a-1984-bicycle-tour/
Snow plow crews on the North Cascades Highway completed the six-week-long job of clearing snow from the highway this week, as the state Department of Transportation made its annual spring announcement that traffic is now open on State Route 20.
The high elevation route across northern Washington also is part of the Northern Tier Bicycle …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/05/08/future-us-bike-route-10-aka-north-cascades-highway-reopens/
That Seattle bike share system that’s due to launch this fall has a new name: Pronto! Cycle Share Presented by Alaska Airlines.
It was formerly known as Puget Sound Bike Share. That entity remains as the official nonprofit owner/operator of the system, but the system itself will go by the new name.
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/05/05/new-name-for-seattle-bike-share-program-pronto-cycle-share/
As Thursday marked the first day of National Bike Month, and we had spectacular weather in the Pacific Northwest, I decided to mark the occasion by exploring the bike trails around Wilkeson.
The old town, by Washington standards, is on the way to the Carbon River Entrance of Mount Rainier National Park. It’s economy was …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/05/02/may-is-national-bike-month-lets-celebrate/
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