Tag: cascade bicycle club
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Chilly Hilly storms Bainbridge + STP sells out in record time
The biking season is officially underway as Cascade Bicycle Club’s 40th Annual Chilly Hilly took over Bainbridge Island Sunday. For the club’s first ride of the year, hundreds or people packed the ferries for a cruise around Bainbridge Island’s relentless hills (2,675 feet of climbing in 33 miles). Meanwhile, it was snowing sporadically around the…
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Sunday: Seattle Bike Swap takes over Seattle Center
With tons of people hawking new, used and handmade bike stuff, Cascade Bicycle Club’s Seattle Bike Swap has got something for everyone. The vendor booths are all sold out, so it should be wall-to-wall with stuff Sunday from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Oh, and be sure to bring cash. More info from Cascade: The…
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Biking Bis: Registration for 2012 Cascade rides starts today
Looking to prevent the server melt-down that happened last year when hundreds of people tried to sign up for the Cascade Bicycle Club’s many popular annual rides at the same time, the club is staggering registration and making several rides lottery-based instead of first-come, first-served. Registration for club members kicks off today for the Chilly…
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Bicycling won’t make you an ‘elite snob,’ so where did this image problem come from?
KUOW’s The Conversation hosted a program about a month ago talking about the unfortunately-titled Salon article “Are urban bicyclists just elite snobs?” Headline aside, author Will Doig makes some good points, saying that while people who bike are not likely to be “elite snobs,” that perception is very real. When I listened to the show…
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Cascade: Get involved with Northgate light rail planning
Cascade Bicycle Club is working to make sure bicycle access to the future Northgate light rail station is safe and easy. They previously laid out a strong argument for investing in biking and walking infrastructure around the future station site, including a new, extremely effective biking and walking bridge over I-5 (see above). Now, Cascade…
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That was fast: SEEC throws out Prop 1 opponents’ ‘frivolous’ claim
It didn’t take long for the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission to reject a complaint from Proposition 1 opponents Citizens Against Raising Car Tabs (CARCT, pronounced “car city,” I believe…) As Streets for All, Cascade Bicycle Club and Transportation Choices Coalition had anticipated, the commission found no foul play or reason to believe any taxpayer…
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