Tag: emerald city bike ride

March 8, 2017

The 2017 Emerald Bike Ride will make a big freeway loop on 520, I-90 and I-5

For the second annual Emerald Bike Ride, Cascade Bicycle Club is scaling up big time. The full route is longer, the start location is bigger and the rider limit has been set at a stunning 10,000 people. That’s 3,000 more people than the sold-out 2016 ride. If the 2017 event also sells out it would…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, emerald bike ride 2017, emerald city bike ride, i-5, i-90, sr 520
April 4, 2016

For a few hours, two Seattle freeways were bike-only (Photos)

For a few short hours just after sunrise Sunday, two major Seattle freeways were beautiful places filled with smiling people. There were no honking horns and no road rage even as a rush hour’s worth of people traveled some of the most traffic-clogged freeways in the nation. That is, of course, because the 7,000 people…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, emerald city bike ride, i-5, jay inslee, lynn peterson, sr 520
March 31, 2016

Cascade’s sold out Emerald City Ride takes to the freeways Sunday + Route Map

Cascade Bicycle Club’s first ever Emerald City Bike Ride takes to area freeways Sunday. The ride sold out all 7,000 spots, and I’m not surprised. People have wanted to bike across the 520 Bridge since it opened half a century ago. And while Bicycle Sunday was held on the I-5 Express Lanes decades ago, biking…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, emerald city bike ride, i-5, i-5 express trail, sr 520, tacoma wheelmen
January 12, 2016

Cascade’s newest ride will travel on the 520 Bridge, I-5 Express Lanes

The secret (or maybe not-so-secret) route for Cascade’s newest major ride has been officially revealed: People registered for the April 3 event will get the rare chance to bike on both the 520 Bridge and the I-5 Express Lanes through the heart of Seattle before looping lack to along Lake Washington. The ride was announced…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, emerald city bike ride, i-5 express trail, sr 520
January 5, 2016

Cascade announces new April ‘Emerald City Bike Ride’

Boasting a secret-for-now route that “involves a state route bike riders have never been able to use,” Cascade Bicycle Club announced an all-new major ride for 2016: The Emerald City Bike Ride. Scheduled for April 3, a Sunday, the new addition to the club’s major rides line-up aims to be “an amazing urban ride that…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, emerald city bike ride