Tag: bicycle sunday

June 3, 2014

Scenes from Bicycle Sundae

Big thanks to everyone who biked and ate ice cream with us for Bicycle Sundae! 46 people registered for the scavenger hunt bike ride, which toured some of the city’s many great ice cream, gelato and frozen yogurt shops. Riders were given a list of clues and had to figure out which shop to go…
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tagged: bicycle sundae, bicycle sunday, events
August 27, 2013

Multimodal book tour stop #1: Portland

I am in Portland, the first stop on a multimodal book tour I am taking for the next couple weeks with my partner Kelli Refer. She is promoting her book Pedal, Stretch, Breathe: The Yoga of Bicycling, which just arrived from the printer. Our goal is to travel all around the Pacific Northwest combining trains,…
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tagged: bicycle sunday, kelli refer, multimodal book tour 2013, pedal stretch breathe, portland, summer streets, sunday parkways
March 28, 2013

City holding 12 Bicycle Sundays this year, first one is May 5

On select Sundays during summer for the past 45 years, the city has been transforming a section of Lake Washington Boulevard in south Seattle into a biking, walking and playing celebration. Bicycle Sunday is one of the oldest open streets events in the country, and hundreds of people flock to the street to enjoy one…
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tagged: bicycle sunday, lake washington blvd
May 7, 2012

Families attend sunny Bicycle Sunday in droves + Let’s add more activites

The first Bicycle Sunday on Lake Washington Boulevard was packed with families enjoying the chance to bike together comfortably on the mostly car-free roadway. So many kids were learning to bike, it made me wonder how many people learned to bike during Bicycle Sunday since they started in 70s. But perhaps even more telling of…
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tagged: bicycle sunday, biking bis, ciclovia
May 4, 2012

First Bicycle Sunday of the year is May 6

The first Bicycle Sunday of the year is this weekend (May 6). They city plans 12 of the ciclovia-style events this year on Lake Washington Boulevard from Mount Baker Beach to Seward Park. If you’ve never been, make it a goal. Tons of kids learning to bike and smiling folks on every kind of wheeled…
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tagged: bicycle sunday, events
March 27, 2012

City announces dates for 2012 Summer Streets and Bicycle Sundays

The first Bicycle Sunday on Lake Washington Blvd is May 6. The mostly car-free event has been giving people the chance to cruise on a beautiful stretch of the historic lakeside roadway north of Seward Park since 1971. Seattle’s Bicycle Sunday may be one of the oldest ciclovia-stytle events in the world, and served as…
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tagged: bicycle sunday, biking bis, ciclovia, sdot, summer streets