Did you buy a bicycle off Seattle's Craiglist recently from a guy who advertised "Road Bikes Galore!"?

You shouldn't be surprised that there's a very good chance the bike was stolen.

The latest stolen bicycle caper comes from a 10-by-10-foot storage unit in Seattle's Lake City neighborhood filled "floor to ceiling" with bikes and bike parts. Two suspects in the case apparently lived in the storage unit.

It doesn't rival the Toronto crime spree that scored nearly 3,000 bikes, but it's amazing by local standards ......   more »

When I first started riding a bicycle as an adult back in the late 1970s in Maryland, one of the first things I did was to buy a guidebook of bicycle rides in the region that encompassed Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Looking back, I think I primarily needed that book because I really didn't know what made a good or bad bicycle route. That sounds funny now, but I didn't have a sixth sense about finding good roads for bicycling.

There's been such a guidebook of bike rides available for western Washington for a few years now. It's written by ardent local bicyclist and author Bill Thorness. He shares his wisdom gleaned from 20 years of bicycling in "Biking Puget Sound: 50 rides from Olympia to the San Juans."

Although I'm long past needing to know what makes a good bike route, I'll have to admit that my ride choices tend to get stale. .....   more »

The World Champion artistic cyclists from Germany were among the featured attractions at the 21st annual Seattle Bicycle Expo, but the new digs for the show at the spacious Smith Cove Cruise Terminal was definitely a huge drawing card.

It seems that whenever the Cascade Bicycle Club moves its expo to larger quarters, the number of exhibitors and visitors fill the space to capacity.

That appeared to be the case on Saturday, as the same interest in bicycling that drew record numbers to the Chilly Hilly bike ride two weeks ago, also prompted bicycling enthusiasts of all stripes -- racers, tourers, commuters, recreational riders .....   more »

Long ago but in not so far away Idaho, Joe Kurmaskie got the nickname Metal Cowboy from a blind rancher.

Since then he's traveled near and far by bicycle, reporting his adventures through a series of humorous books, lectures and magazine articles.

His latest book is "Mud, Sweat and Gears." It tells the story of how he involved his wife and three kids in a trans-Canada bike tour...   more »

As someone who is challenged by a track stand at a stoplight or a bunny hop over a stick in the road, I was astounded by the wonderful performances of the artistic bicyclists from Germany at Saturday's Seattle Bicycle Expo.

If synchronized swimming can be an Olympic sport, so should this. In fact, artistic cycling is a popular UCI-licensed sport in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.

The Cascade Bicycle Club brought the reigning World Champion in single artistic women, Corrina Hein, to Seattle for the expo, along with leading men's pair competitors Stefan Musu and Lukas Matla.

The UCI competitions ...   more »

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This weekend's Seattle Bike Expo, the largest consumer bicycle show in the US, has landed at yet another location this year.

The Smith Cove Cruise Terminal 91 in Magnolia is the new home for the all-things-bicycling show, open from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Here's a link for easy bicycling and driving directions. Car parking (2,500 capacity) costs $5 and the exhibition hall is about a half-mile walk; a shuttle bus also will run during the show. Secure bike parking is provided by BikeWorks right at the entrance.

From the Eastside, I'll probably head across .....   more »

Take it from me; don't poo-poo the bike ride over to Poo Poo Point on Tiger Mountain east of Seattle.

After easily tackling the Chilly Hilly bike ride Sunday on Bainbridge Island, I made the quick decision a couple of days later to pedal my Rockhopper over to the launch point for those paragliders I've seen soaring south of Issaquah.

Quickly checking my Green Trails Map for Tiger Mountain, I saw the trailhead of the old logging road was at 1,400 feet elevation and my destination was 1,780 feet. I should have looked at the route more closely, instead of rushing out of the house. Or, checked with the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance wiki for Poo Poo Point. ...   more »

Right on the heels of the record-breaking Chilly Hilly presented Sunday by the Cascade Bicycle Club, I stumbled across news that a couple of charity rides in Central Washington have been canceled in 2010.

The biggest shock came from the Mike Utley Foundation, which was canceling its popular Dam2Dam bike tour in Wenatachee because of economic stresses.

On a somewhat better note, Group Health Wine Country Trek and Group Health Yakima Ridges bicycle tours in the Yakima area have been discontinued after 8 years because the events fulfilled their funding targets for a community skateboard park ....   more »