Tag: elly blue

March 6, 2012

Bucking bike commute trend, majority of riders on 70-mile Alleycat Acres ride were women

Saturday’s 70-mile Alleycat Acres fundraising bike ride was no walk in the park. It included miles of busy highway shoulders and a 700-foot climb to the high-ground United People’s Farm in Auburn. Many people I talked to said it was by far the longest bike ride they had ever done. Compared to this ride, biking…
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tagged: alleycat acres, elly blue, liz nixon, streets and beets 2012, women
January 9, 2012

An extension cord is not a good bike lock (seen at Broadway/Denny)

@stephburg spotted this bike at Broadway and Denny, locked with what appears to be an extension cord. This could possibly be my favorite bad bike lock ever. I think the idea is to wrap it so annoyingly that thieves will just leave it alone. I hope it worked, wonderful Capitol Hill bike parker! Speaking of…
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tagged: bike locks, capitol hill, elly blue, steph burg, u-locks
November 17, 2011

Grist: Elly Blue’s take on sharrows after a recent trip to Seattle

Elly Blue, a prolific bicycle writer and zine editor from Portland who is a staple of our weekly Bike News Roundups, came to Seattle over the weekend along with Joe Biel of Microcosm Publishing (you may remember Elly and Joe from Bikestravaganza in 2010). After hanging out at Twice Sold Tales, we took a long…
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tagged: elly blue, grist, sharrows
July 22, 2011

Adaptive cycling and safe infrastructure can be tools to help overcome disability

If you are nearsighted and live in a place where eyeglasses are easy to find, it is not a big problem. If you cannot get glasses where you live, being nearsighted becomes a disability. Disabilities are in large part a social construct, and Elly Blue’s most recent column for Grist looks at ability and the…
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tagged: adaptive cycling, disability, elly blue, neighborhood greenways, outdoors for all, tubulocity
May 9, 2011

You have to ride to work this week to get counted

This week is not the week to take a break from bike commuting. SDOT is conducting their bicycle and pedestrian counts May 10-12, according to the SDOT Blog. So if you want to get counted, you gotta ride! From SDOT: SDOT will be conducting pedestrian and bicycle volume counts at more than 50 locations across…
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tagged: bicycle count, bike benefits, bike month 2011, bikenomics, commuting, earl blumenauer, elly blue, federal government, grist
April 25, 2011

Bikenomics: I spend more money on the military than on my bicycle

I have a terrible, dirty little secret. Even though I depend on my bicycle as my primary means of transportation and spend my days writing about bicycles on this blog, I spend more money on war than on my bike. A lot more. In Elly Blue’s latest “bikenomics” column for Grist, she linked to this…
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tagged: bikenomics, elly blue, federal government, taxes, war, wheredidmytaxdollarsgo