Tag: elly blue

November 8, 2016

Eat dinner and talk about grassroots bicycle movements Monday

For years, Microcosm Publishing’s Elly Blue and Joe Biel have been traveling the country with chef Joshua Ploeg to make dinner and talk with local people working to improve their communities through bicycling. They have collected these stories of grassroots change, and they want to share them with you here in Seattle over dinner. Dinner…
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tagged: dinner and bikes, elly blue, g&o family cyclery, joe biel, joshua ploeg
August 4, 2016

Thursday is SAM’s Bike Night at the Olympic Sculpture Park

The Seattle Art Museum is hosting a free Bike Night at the Olympic Sculpture Park Thursday (tonight!), featuring music, talks, workshops, food, a kids zone and more. Want to learn about independent publishing? Learn to make your own zine with Microcosm Publishing’s Elly Blue and Joe Biel. Take a tour of the sculpture park with…
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tagged: boyfriends, chastity belt, davey oil, elly blue, events, janet fagan, joe biel, olympic sculpture park, seattle art museum
November 19, 2015

Online Premiere: Groundswell #7 on the neighborhood street party as a response to gentrification

It’s a world (online) premiere! Seattle Bike Blog is happy to host the online release of Microcosm Publishing’s Groundswell #7: Gentrification Response Team. For years, Elly Blue and Joe Biel over at Microcosm Publishing have been touring the country visiting towns small and large to talk about bicycling. They have met and listened to people…
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tagged: elly blue, groundswell, joe biel
May 25, 2012

Want to find a date who rides a bike? Hub & Bespoke is hosting another Slow Ride Speed Date

“As he slipped the u-lock around the rust-red frame of his bike and started peeling the soaked-through DayGlo jacket from the skin of his forearm, I knew it was love…” The above quote is from the trashy bike romance novel “As My Heart Cranks,” which I haven’t written yet. But it could be your reality…
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tagged: bikesexuality, elly blue, fremont, hub and bespoke, slow ride speed date, taking the lane
April 25, 2012

Help fund a Seattle-written zine about yoga and biking

Pedal, Stretch, Breathe is a zine about yoga for people who bike and about biking for people who do yoga. And you can help fund it and score yourself a copy by backing the project’s Kickstarter campaign. The zine is written by Seattle’s Kelli Refer, who writes about yoga and biking on her blog and…
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tagged: elly blue, kelli refer, pedal stretch breathe, taking the lane media, yoga for bikers
March 13, 2012

Elly Blue: How do Seattle cyclists deal with all those hills?

Elly Blue — whose brilliant bike culture critiques and bikenomics essays end up cited all over this blog — was in town for the Seattle Bike Expo over the weekend (more on the Expo soon). She stayed at the luxurious Seattle Bike Blog estates in the Central District, biked to the Expo in Interbay and…
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tagged: elly blue, hills