Tag: videos

January 20, 2014

West Seattle video series compares bike lights from the driver’s seat

The good folks at West Seattle Bike Connections read our October post about bike lights (and how some are too bright to put on strobe mode on a bike trail) and noticed something missing: Demonstrations of how different lights actually look in action. So Jeff Hallman and three other West Seattle residents went to a…
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tagged: bike lights, videos, west seattle, west seattle bike connections
October 10, 2013

A quick look at the new bike lane on Roosevelt Way (VIDEO)

The city this week is finally installing an uphill bike on Roosevelt Way between NE 75th Street and NE 85th Street. This closes a missing link in a popular bike route stretching from NE 125th Street to the University Bridge. While not even close to being a facility that will be comfortable for people of…
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tagged: maple leaf, roosevelt, sdot, videos
August 1, 2013

SDOT on how to use two-stage left turn boxes

As part of the much-heralded Cherry Street protected bike lane project (you know, the one prompted by a now-famously polite crew of guerrilla bike advocates), the city also installed its first modern-style left turn box at the intersection of Cherry and 7th Ave. While not a dramatically new idea (the city has installed several bike…
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tagged: bike boxes, left turn boxes, sdot, videos
July 3, 2012

Spokane’s Barb Chamberlain picked as new Bicycle Alliance Director

Barb Chamberlain has been named as the new Executive Director of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington. She will take the helm of the statewide advocacy group as longtime director Barb Culp retires. I first saw Chamberlain in a 2010 talk she gave about why she chooses to ride a bike. She called the talk “Bikes…
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tagged: barb chamberlain, barb culp, bicycle alliance of washington, spokane, videos
June 25, 2012

Seattle Bike Polo doc part of NY Bicycle Film Fest + Newbie Sundays at Cal Anderson

One of the films featured in this weekend’s New York Bicycle Film Festival is a documentary about Seattle’s Bike Polo scene (h/t Biking Bis). We stake a claim to being the founding city for modern hardcourt bike polo, which is now a global sensation. You can catch some of the best players in the world…
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tagged: bike polo, cal anderson, capitol hill, hit ’em in the mouth, videos
May 4, 2012

Hundreds attend the largest ever Bike to Work Breakfast (+ video)

Politicians, advocates and citizens packed the sold-out annual Bike to Work breakfast Friday morning in downtown Seattle, the largest crowd in the event’s history. The annual fundraiser breakfast kicks off Cascade Bicycle Club’s Bike Month events. This year’s keynote speaker was Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer, who has been instrumental in legitimizing bicycles as a serious…
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tagged: bike month 2012, bike to work breakfast 2012, cascade bicycle club, earl blumenauer, videos