Tag: bike works

April 1, 2022

Sunday: Bike Works hosts Tour de Fleurs alleycat ride

NOTE: You can find this event and more on the Seattle Bike Blog Events Calendar. Posting to the calendar is free and open to anyone. For example, check out this East Seattle History Ride Saturday. Bike Works is hosting a flower-themed alleycat Sunday with “a wide array of jovial checkpoints and challenges based on non-bike…
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tagged: bike works, events
March 18, 2022

Bike events are back! How to find bike happenings around town

After years of cancelled, scaled back and Zoomified bike events thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Seattle bike events calendar is finally starting to fill up with community celebrations, rides and more. Before 2020, you could pretty much design your whole social schedule around bike events (and some of you did!). We are not quite…
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tagged: bike works, cascade bicycle club, covid-19, events, everyday rides
November 15, 2021

Seattle Cranksgiving 2021 rides with Bike Works November 20

For Seattle’s 12 Annual Cranksgiving, let’s ride bikes together. Rather than the usual scavenger hunt, Cranksgiving 2021 will join up with the good folks at Bike Works Saturday, November 20, to collect donations for Rainier Valley Food Bank before going on a nice, long no-drop community bike ride to celebrate Major Taylor’s birthday. Download the…
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tagged: bike works, cranksgiving 2021, rainier valley food bank
May 25, 2021

Bike Works turns 25 this year + Register now for their excellent annual auction

Bike Works is turning 25 years old! How cool is that? That’s a quarter century of bike wrenching, teaching and youth programming in Columbia City. The organization has long had an excellent annual fundraiser auction. Of course, the pandemic isn’t over (and it was very far from over when the 2021 auction was planned), so…
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tagged: bike works, bikecitement 2021
December 4, 2020

After nearly 10 years, Deb Salls steps down as Bike Works ED + Ed Ewing takes the helm

When I first met Deb Salls, it was an office crammed full of desks and staff members in the top floor (maybe attic?) of the iconic yellow Bike Works house in Columbia City. There was hardly an inch of open space up there. One floor down, the organization packed a full schedule of after-school programs…
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tagged: bike works, deb salls, ed ewing
August 19, 2020

Tonight: Phyllis Porter talks biking and activism

Tonight (August 19) at 6 p.m., log in to hear Phyllis Porter talk about “her adventures and growth as a bicycle rider and activist including her passion for safe streets for all.” Porter has been a strong advocate and friend of Seattle Bike Blog for years. She ran for City Council in District 2 last…
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tagged: bike works, phyllis porter