Tag: best side cycling

October 23, 2024

Watch: Riding Bromptons with Best Side Cycling and talking about the transportation levy

Hanoch Yeung and I accidentally coordinated out outfits with our Brompton folding bikes, then rode around for a while talking about the state of bicycle infrastructure in Seattle and the need for voters to approve Prop 1, the Seattle Transportation Levy. Our conversation is probably the most in-depth I’ve gone into the politics behind the…
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tagged: 2024 seattle transportation levy, best side cycling, hanoch yeung, videos
August 5, 2024

New protected bike lanes on MLK connect the I-90 Trail to Mount Baker Station + BSC video

Crews have finished work on a project that makes it much easier and safer to walk or bike between the I-90 Trail and Mount Baker light rail station. Perhaps most importantly, the project made some significant crosswalk upgrades at the complicated and dangerous intersection of Rainier, MLK and Mount Baker Blvd near Franklin High School.…
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tagged: accessible mt baker, best side cycling, central district, mlk way, mount baker station, mt baker, sdot
June 10, 2024

Watch: The Best Sides of Cycling mini-documentary now online

If you missed the local screenings, you can now watch Philip Thangsombat’s mini-documentary The Best Sides of Cycling on the Best Side Cycling YouTube channel. The 20-minute film shows Hanoch Yeung biking from Seattle to Vancouver with his father and leading a group ride up a series of ridiculous hills. The result is a lovely…
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tagged: best side cycling, hanoch yeung, philip thangsombat, the best sides of cycling, videos
June 3, 2024

Best Side Cycling: Are these Eastside bike lanes really among the worst in the U.S.?

No, they are not. Sorry for the spoiler. Don’t get me wrong, the Coal Creek Parkway bike lanes in Bellevue, Newcastle and Renton are not sufficient for the road conditions. As you can see in the Best Side Cycling video, the road is too fast and busy for a skinny paint-only bike lane to provide…
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tagged: 2nd ave, bellevue, best side cycling, coal creek parkway, dexter, everett, king county traffic safety coalition, mlk way, momentum magazine, mukilteo speedway, newcastle, paine field, renton, worst bike lanes
April 3, 2024

How Best Side Cycling inspired a longtime documentary editor to finally make his own short film – Premieres April 16

Philip Thangsombat has been an editor on other people’s documentaries for 14 years, but “I have always found excuses to not make my own film,” he said during a recent conversation with Seattle Bike Blog. That is until he met Hanoch Yeung. You may know Yeung better as the person behind Best Side Cycling on…
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tagged: best side cycling, film, hanoch yeung, philip thangsombat, the best sides of cycling
February 27, 2024

Watch: Best Side Cycling captures what it’s like to ride Chilly Hilly

In what may be his best ride video yet, Hanoch Yeung of Best Side Cycling took a slew of video equipment, including a fly-along drone, to capture what it’s like to ride Cascade Bicycle Club’s longest-running annual ride: Chilly Hilly. The winter-time ride is renown and even celebrated for its unpredictable weather, and while turnout…
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tagged: best side cycling, cascade bicycle club, chilly hilly, hanoch yeung