Tag: cascade bicycle club
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Rules allowing downtown bus/bike loading here to stay
One year ago, it was against the rules to load your bike on the front of a King County Metro bus in the downtown Ride Free Area during rush hour. The idea was that bike loading would slow bus movement through the busy downtown stops, slowing down the whole system. In February last year, Metro…
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Why giving away bike lights makes sense
Having a front-facing bike light can greatly reduce a rider’s chances of being struck in many of the most common types of car-bike collisions. The rate of collisions goes up significantly at night, and a common response from drivers who hit people on bikes is, “I didn’t see him/her.” Bike riders, especially inexperienced riders, do…
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Tell your ninja friends: Free lights this afternoon!
This bears repeating: Tell your cash-strapped, unlit or underlit bike rider friends to stop by any of these three locations this afternoon to get free bike lights from Cascade. I say, “Tell your friends,” because clearly not a single upstanding Seattle Bike Blog reader would be riding around without adequate lights (ahem). They’ll be there…
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Free bike light giveaway Dec. 9
Cascade Bicycle Club and SDOT are giving away 420 bike lights at three Seattle locations December 9. Now that it is dark for so much of the day, having lights is one of the best things you can do to help drivers (and people walking and biking) see you. It’s encouraging that enough people are…
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Cascade’s Board has the power to fix the club’s woes
Unlike the annual Cascade Bicycle Club member meeting in October, the club’s town hall meeting last night was one of calm, shrewd reason. There is still a lot of member anger over the Board’s firing of long-time Executive Director Chuck Ayers and their terrible handling of the fallout, but people who were emotional and angry…
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Tomorrow: Cascade Town Hall at Magnuson
Cascade Bicycle Club is holding a town hall meeting to further discuss their recent leadership shake-ups and member discontent with the conduct of the club’s Board of Directors (in case you missed it, read this). The meeting goes from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Mountaineers near Magnuson Park. The meeting will be a chance…
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