This weekend’s Seattle Bike Show is at a new location and under new management, but features many of the same characters as previous exhibitions.
Just make sure you don’t slide into the golf exhibition next door by accident.
This year’s show is moving to the CenturyLink Field Event Center, 800 Occidental Ave. S. (you know, where the …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2015/02/26/new-hosts-for-seattle-bike-show-this-weekend/
If the “chilly” in the Chilly Hilly bike ride held every February on Bainbridge Island scares you away, then this might be the year to overcome it.
Forecasters predict sunny weather in the 50s on Sunday, when the Cascade Bicycle Club presents the 43rd annual, 33-mile bike ride around the island.
In spite of good …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2015/02/21/2015-chilly-hilly-not-so-chilly-on-sunday-but-still-plenty-hilly/
If you’re planning ahead for some bicycling opportunities for entire family in the Seattle area, remember to mark down the dozen dates for Bicycle Sundays this spring and summer.
Beginning in 1965, the city of Seattle set aside several Sundays every summer when a scenic section of Lake Washington Boulevard is closed to vehicular traffic.
The …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2015/02/16/saddle-up-bicycle-sundays-return-to-lake-washington-in-2015/
There’s a new bike route way-finding sign at the corner of Northrup Way and Lake Washington Boulevard in Bellevue.
It reads “Seattle – 7” and points toward a bike path that heads into a tunnel and follows State Route 520.
The bike path is newly opened, but it doesn’t make it all the way to …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2015/01/16/new-sr-520-eastside-bike-path-links-lake-washington-blvd-and-evergreen-point-rd/
Organizers for Seattle Pronto Cycle Share couldn’t have asked for a better autumn day for the official roll-out of its 500-bike system on Monday.
It’s the type of day that just begs for a bike ride. [Not so much beginning tonight, as rain and winds will blow in for the rest of the week].
The …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/10/13/seattles-pronto-cycle-share-rolls-out-283-use-system-in-first-hour/
Seattle’s Pronto Cycle Share system will be ready to roll by Monday afternoon with 500 bicycles available at 50 stations scattered between the International District and University of Washington.
To mark Seattle’s entrance into the bike-share generation, five group rides to deliver some of the Pronto bikes to their destinations will get underway at noon.
Pronto members …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/10/12/seattle-bike-share-goes-live-monday-afternoon/
The future is now for Seattle. After years of preparation, residents and commuters are seeing the first installations of bike-share stations this week.
Pronto Cycle Share is still aiming for an Oct. 13 launch date for the first public bike-share system in the Pacific Northwest.
Before long, 50 docking stations to hold some 500 bikes …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/09/26/seattle-joins-bike-share-movement-next-month/
A paved bicycle trail that the city of Sumner built along the scenic White River has gone a long way toward connecting two great rail-trails — the Interurban (South) Trail in King County and the Foothills Trail in Pierce County.
The last section of the Sumner Link Trail completed this spring closed a gap in …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/09/17/new-sumner-bike-trail-helps-close-the-gap-between-interurban-south-and-foothills-trails/
September is the home stretch for baseball fans watching the pennant races. But bicycling fanatics are probably more interested in another set of standings.
Bicycling magazine has issued its biennial rankings of “America’s Top 50 Bike Friendly Cities” and there are some surprising changes in the top spots.
For one, Portland is no longer the leading …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/09/03/surprises-in-new-top-50-bicycle-friendly-list-from-bicycling-mag/
There’s much heartache in the Seattle bicycling community today after the death on Friday of Sher Kung, a young mother who was killed at a downtown intersection on Second Avenue at University Street.
Let me add my condolences to the family, friends and coworkers of the attorney. An impromptu memorial, including a ghost bike and flowers, has …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/08/30/death-of-seattle-bicyclist-brings-sadness-raises-questions/
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