Tag: bikestravaganza

August 19, 2010

Bike news roundup: Beer Bikes! (can we please get one?)

CAN SEATTLE PLEASE GET A BEER BIKE?!?!?!?!?! Whatever laws might get in the way, we need to change (hat tip BikeHugger):
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tagged: beer bikes, bikestravaganza, bikeworks, blog roundup, fiets of parenthood, other blogs, sound transit
August 18, 2010

Lessons from Bikestravaganza, Part 2: Bike Business

Bikestravaganza rolled into Seattle Saturday and sparked some interesting conversations. Here is part two of our series about ideas taken from the night. When Portland announced it was looking for a couple businesses to turn the parking spots in front of their storefronts into bike corrals, people scoffed. Now, after the projects have proven to…
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tagged: bikestravaganza, business, lessons from bikestravaganza
August 16, 2010

Lessons from Bikestravaganza, Part 1: $65 million = World class bike city or 1 mile of freeway

Bikestravaganza rolled into town Saturday evening for a chat at Ada’s Technical Books on Capitol Hill for a night of presentations, zines and discussions about bikes. Hailing from Portland, Joe Biel (filmmaker and founder of Microcosm Publishing) and Elly Blue (activist, organizer and former BikePortland.org editor) are touring the country with a zine library, a…
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tagged: bikestravaganza, deep bore tunnel, lessons from bikestravaganza, mt hood freeway, thompson expressway
August 9, 2010

Bikestravaganza coming to town Saturday (also, best tattoo ever)

Best tattoo ever at 0:40 Coming out of Portland, Bikestravaganza is a touring “evening of bike talk, bike zines, and short movies about transportation activism.” Basically, the goal of the tour is to talk about what is good and bad about biking in Portland and to discuss what is happening in towns on the West…
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tagged: alleycat acres, bikestravaganza, portland