Seattle Bike Blog

“As he slipped the u-lock around the rust-red frame of his bike and started peeling the soaked-through DayGlo jacket from the skin of his forearm, I knew it was love…”

The above quote is from the trashy bike romance novel “As My Heart Cranks,” which I haven’t written yet. But it could be your reality thanks to [...]

Kent’s newest signed bike route is like no other. The Earthworks Bicycle Tour is part useful transportation tool and part tour of public art. The route kicks off with a huge bike and art party in Kent June 2. The event features group rides for individuals, beginners and families, music, art, and the inauguration of the recently [...]

Students at Ballard High School are hosting a bike drive Friday to collect people’s old bikes and donate them to Bike Works. They will be collecting them from 4-7 p.m. at the upper parking lot of the high school. Remember, if you [...]

King County is about to pave a 2.2-mile gravel section of the East Sammamish Lake Trail through Issaquah, connecting other paved trails in the process. The project will also start the process of paving the section of trail connecting Issaquah and Redmond. [...]

Washington State has claimed the top spot on the League of American Bicyclists’ list of bike-friendly states for the fifth year in a row. The League rated all 50 states and determined that Washington is the only state to score well in all five of their key criteria. The state is the only one in the Union [...]

Portland’s Ellee Thalheimer (yes, another biking and writing Elly/ee from Portland) is headed to town to promote her book: Cycling Sojourner: A Guide to the Best Multi-day Tours in Oregon . Thalheimer’s book has advice for people of all income levels interested in bike touring in Oregon, according to a preview in the Oregonian :

Thalheimer covers both ends of the spectrum from [...]

Southeast Seattle desperately needs ambitious, family-friendly biking and walking routes. Tomorrow, you are invited to join the Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board and a slew of other biking and neighborhood organizations for a two-hour biking tour from the Mountains-to-Sound Trail to Brighton to Beacon Hill. Rainier Valley is possibly the best candidate for a neighborhood greenway in the [...]

Look, here’s the thing, WSDOT: It would be completely absurd to build a whole new floating bridge from Medina to Montlake complete with a biking and walking trail, then stop the trail less than a mile from the end of the bridge where it can connect to the densest residential neighborhood in the state and bike routes to [...]

Cascade is pretty sure that Fremont’s bike counter will be the first such counter in the nation when it is unveiled this summer. The 7.5-foot-tall counter by Eco-Totem will tick away counting the number of people biking on either side of the Fremont Bridge, keeping daily and annual  tallies updated live for everyone to see. It will [...]

The Green River Trail from Tukwila to Kent has been closed to bicycling since 2009, when miles of three-foot-tall sandbags were installed in the center of the trail. The sandbags were in response to flooding fears, but they [...]

Over 70 people rode in near silence from Gas Works Park to City Hall and back Wednesday evening in memory of people who have been seriously injured or killed while biking. The annual Ride of Silence takes place in cities all over the world. Wednesday’s ride was the 8th such ride [...]

Friday is Bike to Work (and School!) Day, which is pretty much a holiday for folks on two wheels. There will be Commute Stations all over the region , many of which will be armed with snacks and coffee. In a change from recent years, the main station will be outside [...]

The driver of a brown SUV gunned it to make a quick left across two lanes of general traffic plus a bike lane on Dexter Ave last July. But PATH photographer Mike Wang was traveling in the bike lane at that moment, and the driver struck Wang, killing him. After stopping for a [...]

As several readers have already noticed, the County is repaving a section of the Burke-Gilman Trail near Log Boom Park. Work on the 650-foot stretch of trail should be completed by Friday, according to King County Parks. Workers are dong some root removal on the previously bumpy section of trail, then installing a root [...]

Tacoma and Snohomish have earned spots on the The League of American Bicyclists’ Bicycle Friendly Communities list. Both communities earned Bronze level recognition, joining 214 other communities in the nation on the list. Port Townsend moved up a spot in the list, trading in their Bronze for a Silver. The League also [...]

It’s the Tuesday Bike News Roundup! As always, this is an open thread. Feel free to discuss anything bikes in the comments. First up, this top secret look behind the scenes reveals some Cervélo 2013 line trade secrets… Pacific Northwest News: BikePortland.org » Over 28,000 turn out for first Sunday Parkways of the year – Wow. Seattle Subway: “We want [...]

Kids love their bikes. And two events last Saturday demonstrated this point clearly. The annual Madrona Mayfair kicked off with a decorated bike and trike parade. Hundreds of families showed up for the sunny parade down 34th Ave. Some kids rode on their own, while many other younger ones were accompanied by parents. I would say that the [...]

To celebrate Seattle Beer Week — and, of course, bicycles! — the Ballard-based Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery is hosting a local brewery pub crawl on bikes Saturday. The Tour de Pints starts promptly at 11 a.m. at Pike Brewing Company in Pike Place Market. From there it will hit Hillard’s Beer, Naked City Brewery, Ravenna Alehouse, Fremont Brewing, Hales [...]

BikeWise is an awesome tool with tons of room to grow. It already provides a space for people who have crashed or had a bike stolen a place to publicly report the incidents. The crash data in particular provides advocates and the city with valuable data on trouble spots. There’s typically no police report if there were [...]

The annual Ride of Silence group bike rides take place in cities all over the world as a way to remember people who have been killed or injured while biking. Seattle’s 8th Ride of Silence will meet at Gas Works Park May 16. Here’s the schedule: 6:30pm Arrive at Gas Works Park 6:45pm Dedications + Spoken Word 7:00pm Ride of [...]