Tag: videos

March 11, 2022

Watch: Trading my bike for a seaplane

I ride a bike around Seattle all the time, but can I fly a seaplane? Let’s find out! Join me for an air tour of Seattle from behind the yoke of a seaplane in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Do I know what I’m doing? Will we survive the journey? Will we have fun? At least one…
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tagged: microsoft flight simulator, seaplanes, videos
March 8, 2022

Watching an early 90s Seattle bicycle promo VHS

Complete with colorful digital filters and titles that fly in and spin, this Seattle Engineering Department promotional video is a wonderful time capsule of early 1990s Seattle bicycle policy. The video is mostly aimed at agencies from other cities looking to emulate Seattle’s relatively successful Bicycle Program. In the process, it presents the state of…
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tagged: videos
January 19, 2022

Watch: Biking to Pike Place Market via the U Bridge in 360 and hyperlapse

I’m trying something new on the blog today. I’ve got two videos for you. Well, really they are two very different versions of the same video, which I shot while heading downtown to pick up my daughter from preschool. The first is a short hyperlapse video showing the route at 15X speed: The second is…
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tagged: 360 videos, downtown, fairview, hyperlapse videos, university bridge, videos, wallingford
December 8, 2021

Watch: Biking from Gas Works to Pike Place using only trails, protected bike lanes and very slow streets

In the middle of the 2020 COVID shutdown, Seattle missed an opportunity to celebrate a remarkable achievement. With completion of the Bell Street protected bike lane and implementation of the Stay Healthy Street through the Bell Street Park, Seattle had fully connected a downtown protected bike route. For the first time, it became possible to…
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tagged: downtown, videos
November 29, 2021

Watch: Fixing a flat the lazy way

Seattle Bike Blog does not usually do bike tutorial stuff. There are many other excellent YouTube channels and online resources if you want to learn about bike maintenance and such. However, the vast majority of YouTube fix-a-flat tutorials start by having you take off your wheel. There is an easier way. So when I got…
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tagged: fix a flat, tutorials, videos
August 5, 2021

Watch: Searching for the 125-year-old Interlaken bike path

In 1896, Seattle city crews and a group of volunteers worked together to build a bike path from downtown to Lake Washington. They made it quickly, following the terrain around the north end of Capitol Hill to find the easiest route. They cleared the skinny path and dug as needed to make it mostly flat,…
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tagged: history, interlaken, videos