Bicycling

Urban Assault Ride 2010

The Urban Assault Ride (bikes, that is) will wend its way through Wallingford on Sunday, May 16th.  If you're not familiar,  UAR is fast-growing event that started in Austin, Texas.  This year's Seattle ride benefits Bikeworks Seattle, a non-profit whose mission is to build sustainability by promoting bicycling & by educating young people. The ride works like this: teams of two set out to hit various checkpoints throughout the city, in any order you wish.  At each checkpoint riders dismount, complete…

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Bike to Work Month

Bike to Work Month is a time to park your car and put away your bus pass in favor of a nobler vehicle -- the bicycle! During the month of May, you can compete with Bike to Work Teams around the region, and be counted as one of the many thousands of bike commuters around Seattle. There are a couple of ways you can participate: Join the Group Health Commute Challenge – Commit to riding 5 round trips between May 1 –…

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Bike Blender

Hope you all made it to the Bikes are Beautiful event we told you about this past Saturday. We had hoped to, as well, but had a last minute romantic date with a stomach virus, instead. Ah, the sweet songs we sang. Our Wallingford informants did make, however, and sent us this photo of the bike blender they constructed for the occasion. ¡Vive la bicicleta!

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Bikes are Beautiful

This is a Ballard event, but we're big enough fans of bikes that we're going to give it some love: BIKES ARE BEAUTIFUL! A one-night celebration of bicycle culture, SATURDAY APRIL 10, 2010 6pm - 2am Hosted by Viking Fire Foundry - 4710 Ballard Ave Seattle This is an indoor/outdoor rain or shine event. Bikes are not mandatory but spontaneous parading up and down Ballard Avenue is encouraged. Just down the street from The Tractor, Sunset Tavern and other venues. Come…

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Introducing, Mad Fiber

Many of you have been curious as to what has become of the now empty bakery down at the Essential Baking Company building. Back in the first week of February the production packed up all their bread making ingredients and shipped their ovens down to Georgetown in south Seattle. Sadly, dumpster diving went with them. The bakery was an empty and eerie place; the hustle and bustle of hundreds of workers was gone and the drop of a pin echoed off…

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Challenge Multisport

You've got to give it to Nadine Foster. She doesn't do things half way. For example, if you were going to break your arm, you would probably stop there. You'd say "hey, one arm broken is enough." We know we would. Not Nadine. Nope, climbing a ladder in December, in the midst of starting a new business, she fell and broke broke both her arms. Why? That's just the way Nadine rolls. And she does roll. She's a USA Cycling Level…

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Accident at Dick’s

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We're a day late on this, but Darwin reports an accident in front of Dick's on 45th: About 3:45 pm. Looked like bike put BIG dent in passenger door of blue SUV. Cyclist taken away in ambulance. Possibly SUV made left turn across path of bike while bike was EB? Seattle Fire took the bike away, looked like a fixie without brakes

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