A cross-country charity bike ride for the American Lung Association rolled out of Seattle on Monday for a 7-week journey.
I just happened to run into the Big Ride Across America at one of the day’s rest stops at Marymoor Park in Redmond.
If all went as planned, they’re left Lake Easton State Park on …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/06/18/bicyclists-leave-seattle-for-big-ride-across-america/
A teen-age bicycle rider was struck by a car and killed as he participated in a Canada-based charity bicycle ride bypassing Arlington in Snohomish County this weekend.
Police reported that the 16-year-old from Victoria, BC, tried to pass cyclists riding in a pack on a narrow road with no shoulder, lost control of his bike …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/06/17/tragedy-strikes-charity-ride-in-snohomish-county/
Contractors are working to repair two tunnels on the John Wayne Pioneer Trail that have been closed since 2009 when inspectors found falling debris hazards inside of them.
The two former railroad tunnels — Numbers 48 and 49 on the old Chicago-Milwaukee-St. Paul-Pacific Railroad, commonly known as the Milwaukee Road — are located east of …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/06/13/state-repairing-2-more-tunnels-on-john-wayne-pioneer-rail-trail-2-others-still-closed/
Salsa Cycles issued a recall for 1,700 black La Cruz bicycle forks because they have a history of bending above the disc brake mount.
The bike forks were sold individually and on Salsa Vaya brand bicycles and framesets.
The company and the Consumer Protection Safety Commission recommends that owners stop riding the bicycles immediately and …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/06/12/salsa-recalling-faulty-bike-forks/
This surely isn’t the first time you’ve heard this, but it certainly bears repeating: Creating long-distance bicycle routes and trails draws travelers on two wheels who spend money.
Twenty-seven Canadian communities will learn that this summer when a new, 370-mile section Ontario’s Waterfront Trail will be opened along the north shore of Lake Erie.
Coming in the …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/06/11/bicyclists-follow-waterfront-trail-through-canada-spending-as-they-go/
Hmmm, baby. Just what I like to see — a freshly paved bike trail. Just got to wait a couple of days for it to open.
This is the Issaquah Trailhead for the East Lake Sammamish Trail that rolls out between Issaquah and Redmond.
The 11-mile trail opened as a gravel rail-trail in 2006, and …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/06/09/issaquah-section-of-east-lake-sammamish-trail-opens-tuesday/
Hundreds of mountain biking enthusiasts flocked to Duthie Hill Park in Issaquah on Saturday to celebrate all things having to do with knobby-tires.
Here, a pro free-styler flies through the air on one of the runs at the Go Huck Yourself Jump Jam down in the Flow Park section of Duthie Hill.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/06/08/evergreen-mountain-bike-festival-creates-knobby-fun/
Bicycling enthusiasts will enjoy two-wheeled bliss on knobby and skinny tires this Saturday in Redmond and Issaquah.
The widely acclaimed Duthie Hill Park in the Issaquah highlands once again will be the site for the annual Evergreen Mountain Bike Festival this coming Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Also Saturday, the Cascade Bicycle Club …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/06/06/roadies-and-mountain-bikers-converge-on-seattles-eastside/
The Seattle Bicycle Master Plan is a work in progress.
Since the master plan was first adopted in 2007, some new best practices to make roads safer for cyclists have evolved.
Policy makers want to implement some of those changes in an updated master plan currently under review. [See the updated plan here.]
Cycle …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/06/05/where-to-learn-about-updating-seattles-bicycle-master-plan/
Apparently not everyone in New York City is in love with Citi Bike, the bike-sharing program that launched with 6,000 blue bikes at 300 stations over Memorial Day weekend.
Rupert Murdoch’s The Wall Street Journal produced a video opinion piece, curiously entitled “Death by Bicycle,” in which editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz blasted the new program. …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/06/03/editorial-attack-against-new-york-citys-bike-sharing-program/
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