The Tour de Fat's long-running costumed celebration of bikes and beer won't be rousing the inner-cyclist of Seattle and Portland this year.
New Belgium Brewery's popular traveling bicycle-beer fest is bypassing the Pacific Northwest's two great bicycling cities to add Durham, NC, and Nashville, TN, to its 13-city nationwide tour (full list and dates below).
The news will be a disappointment to the 4,000-some bike lovers in Seattle and the smaller crowd of 1,750 in Portland last year who rode in the bike parade, and enjoyed the entertainers, beer and goofy bikes that made the show special.
As a fund-raiser to local bicycle-oriented nonprofits, the loss the Tour de Fat in Seattle and Portland also will affect the bottom line at local bike charities ….
Seattle cyclist Don Cox has developed a product that every wet weather Pacific Northwest cyclist can appreciate. Mud flaps.
That's not real sexy, but very useful in a region that averages 140 days of “measureable precipitation” every year.
I was introduced to Don Cox and his RainyDayBiking mud flaps on one of those days that exhibited an extreme amount of “measureable precipitation.”
When I biked through the rain to the Seattle Bike Expo on Saturday, I was soaked from head to toe. As I dripped across the lobby and followed the crowds upstairs, his RainyDayBiking booth was the first I noticed. Given the name, I reckoned this guy might have something I'd be interested in. ….
A San Francisco cyclist has developed a way to attach reflective fabric to a bicycle that turns the entire bike frame into a giant reflector for riding at night.
When I spoke with Brent Thomas (left) at the Seattle Bicycle Expo on Saturday, the former Internet marketer says he has a lot of ideas in his head. I'd say that Bike Wrappers is probably his best.
The easily attachable fabric makes your bicycle highly reflective at night from all directions (see the video below).
“I commute. I ride at night. I've been hit by cars. I got to thinking that there are lights and reflectors for the front and rear, but there's nothing that makes the bike visible from the side.” …
Bicycling historian David Herlihy isn't resting on his well-earned laurels after completing his books “Bicycle: The History” and “The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance.”
When I talked with him at the Seattle Bike Expo on Saturday, Herlihy said he's been working on another book. This one is about French cyclist Octave Lapize, one of the early winners of the Tour de France.
“Lapize was the best all around cyclist of that pre-war era. It will be his story and his generation of cyclists.”
All three winners of the Tour de France during that four-year period — 1907 to 1910 — met tragic ends; they were killed in World War I as members of the French Army ….
Dripping and soaked from head to foot as I entered the 2011 Seattle Bike Expo on Saturday, the first booth I saw displayed the name Rainy Day Biking.
The name spoke to me, as I had just finished an hour-and-a-half bike ride from Bellevue to the Smith Cove Terminal in the pouring rain.
I spoke to exhibitor Don Cox about his product — a high visibility reflective mud flap that also helps keep the water out of your shoes — and bought a set of front and rear flaps that read: “Save the Planet. Ride a Bike.”
The Seattle Bike Expo, which wraps up on Sunday, is that kind of a bike show….
The Seattle Bicycle Expo rolls out at the Smith Cove Cruise Terminal on Saturday and Sunday with some new speakers and exhibits, as well as some favorites from previous years.
The familiar includes a return of last year's artistic cyclist performers Corrina Hein riding solo and Stefan Musu and Lukas Matla riding as a duo (see video at left). World class bike stunt performer Ryan Leech also will perform.
Also many of the scores of exhibitors and retail booths will return this year to peddle their wares and inform about upcoming bike rides and tours.
But the Expo organizers at the Cascade Bicycle Club are offering a full slate of new presentations and exhibits to keep things fresh this year ….
... ride is focused on the down. Trail bike…covering ground on single track is hard to beat. It's about both the up and down then. Then there is riding ...
The Tour de Fat's long-running costumed celebration of bikes and beer won't be rousing the inner-cyclist of Seattle and Portland this year.
Seattle cyclist Don Cox has developed a product that every wet weather Pacific Northwest cyclist can appreciate. Mud flaps.
Bicycling historian David Herlihy isn't resting on his well-earned laurels after completing his books “Bicycle: The History” and “The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance.”
Dripping and soaked from head to foot as I entered the 2011 Seattle Bike Expo on Saturday, the first booth I saw displayed the name Rainy Day Biking.
Keep your head down on the Lake Washington bike trail between Newcastle and Renton this weekend.
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