Tag: family biking

February 27, 2013

Must Listen: NPR features family cycling and biking to school

Biking to school is national news. NPR ran a big feature this morning focused on how families in America have to schedule all their exercise, since day-to-day life includes so little physical activity and many neighborhood streets are not safe for kids to play. So what’s one solution? From NPR: Lots of parents across the…
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tagged: clever cycles, family biking, npr
January 31, 2013

FamilyRide: S.U.P.E.R. B.O.W.L. themed (sort of) kids’ bike event Sunday

Editor’s Note: Expect more posts from Madi at FamilyRide to appear on this blog going forward. We’re still working on a title for her new column. Staff Family Cycling Expert? Family Cycling Correspondent? Vote or suggest your own title in the comments! So there’s, like, a football game Sunday afternoon? If you’re looking to clear…
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tagged: family biking, familyride
November 20, 2012

Attention Seattle biking parents: Take this survey!

Cascade Bicycle Club and Bike Works have created a survey to better understand the needs biking parents in Seattle. Whether you already bike with your kids or would like to start, help them out by taking their short survey. Your answers will help them get an idea of what resources are most needed to help…
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tagged: bike works, cascade bicycle club, family biking
July 26, 2012

Bike Works launches new groundbreaking family biking projects

Bike Works has hired longtime family biking guru Morgan Scherer to lead a new series of adult programs aimed at making it easier for people to find a family biking solution that works for them and to provide classes for adults who want learn safe roadway biking skills. Scherer, who lives in Rainier Beach, has…
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tagged: bike works, columbia city, family bike expo, family biking, morgan scherer, rainier valley
January 13, 2011

Banning children from bike seats is bad politics

Local and state lawmakers in Washington, hear this tale of warning from Oregon: Don’t propose a ban on children in bike seats. An Oregon legislator, Mitch Greenlick, has proposed a bill that would make it illegal to carry a child younger than six on a bicycle, either in a seat or a trailer. I’m sure…
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tagged: bike portland, family biking, Mitch Greenlick, oregon, portland