Tag: light up your ride

November 4, 2019

For some reason, we are still adjusting our clocks so that evening commutes are in the dark

Washington, Oregon and California have all passed laws saying that they are ready to switch to permanent Daylight Saving Time, but we still need to meaninglessly and abruptly plunge the evening commute into darkness next week because Congress has not yet approved the West Coast time zone change. That means sunset today is 4:47 p.m.…
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tagged: bike lights, commute seattle, daylight savings time, light up your ride
November 2, 2016

Get a free doughnut and coffee for biking Thursday morning

It’s time for Commute Seattle’s annual Light Up your Ride event. Get a free doughnut, cup of coffee and other likely reflective and blinky swag tomorrow morning (Thursday). All you have to do is ride a bike. Easy! Commute Seattle will be at the south end of the new Westlake Bikeway in Lake Union Park…
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tagged: commute seattle, light up your ride
October 29, 2014

Light Up Your Ride with Commute Seattle Thursday

Daylight Savings Time ends Sunday, eating away an hour of light in the evening. So you gotta get your bike ready for darker commutes if you haven’t already, and Commute Seattle wants to help. This is the second year Commute Seattle has help Light Up Your Ride, an event to provide folks with a place…
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tagged: commute seattle, events, light up your ride, mcgraw square
October 22, 2013

Commute Seattle and city hosting bike light event Thursday

Bike lights are not optional. Aside from being required by law (technically, only front light and rear reflector are required), lights are vital if you are going to be visible to folks driving, biking and walking at night and sun-in-the-eyes situations. Studies have shown that people on bikes naturally feel more visible to others than…
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tagged: bike lights, commute seattle, light up your ride, sdot