Attorneys butt heads, ferries raise and drop fees like the tides, and Belltown is still stabby. But hey, at least the weather's spiffy. Hooray, September! more ›

"Ultimately, I bike now, because I like it." - Mike McGinn. more ›

This past weekend we stopped by 20/20 Cycle after checking out the This Is A Powerful Corner art installation at 23rd & Union. We were pleasantly surprised by 20/20's selection of road bikes, since they had more to choose from than usual. more ›

Yesterday being a gorgeous day with the sun shining and temperatures in the 70s, we decided to finally do something we've been thinking about for some time: Take the King County Water Taxi over to West Seattle for the helluvit. more ›

The other morning we were biking west down Aloha between 15th and 14th, and a car caught up to us and swung out to pass. But then the hill gets steep and we picked up speed (not even pedaling), so for 14th to 13th we were neck and neck, until a car appeared heading east and the car on our elbow dropped back--only to zip past us in the backstretch from 13th to 12th, where both of us stopped at a stop sign. To recap: steep, twisty, 3-block stretch of road with a stop sign at the end. The back window of the car read SEE BICYCLES. Now, there may or may not be irony in a car with a biking sticker on it, but Google tells us that drivers with bumper stickers are more likely to be territorial and aggressive. Maybe some truth to that? more ›

No less an authority on exercise than the weight-dropping New York Times is covering the Dutch Bike Company's expansion: "So, with 170 miles of new bike lanes in New York, it makes sense that the Dutch Bike Co. in Seattle should be opening a branch in the city this summer, its third in the United States." Actually, the Dutch bike story is in their fashion section, because apparently the real trick is to look manly while cycling. Money quote: "The only person I know who has a Dutch bike is a girl." more ›

Capitol Hill Seattle was on fire today, with a Google-mapped report on the dog cops chased around Cal Anderson for an unreasonably long time and a poll on who should be the face on Capitol Hill's dollar bill. (Maybe we suggest Editor MvB's visage?) The Southlake enthused about The Bachelor's visit to Seattle, including five points of interest and--yes--a Google map of the episode's highlights. Cascade Bicycle and MyBallard want to talk about the Burke-Gilman's missing link. Matthew, Laurie and Iris over at Roots And Grubs were let down by their Trader Joes tortillas, but shared how they saved dinner. It sounds scrumptious! more ›

Yesterday at noon, the sharrow-makers were at the north end of Broadway, and by the time we biked over to Pike for Blogsgiving, it was sharrows all the way. If anyone's asking, Broadway could use a dedicated bike lane, not just sharrows. But perhaps this is just a beachhead for the new bikeocracy. more ›

No really. It's true. According to the League of American Bikes (via the Cascade Bicycle Alliance in our case), Washington is the most bicycle friendly state in the union. According to the LAB, "Washington’s model bike laws, signed and mapped statewide bike route network, dedicated funding from the state for bicycle related programs and projects, and an active statewide bicycle advisory committee" are reasons that the state earned top honors above Wisconsin, Arizona, Oregon (numbers two, three and four respectively) and all the others. more ›

Not to belabor this story, but we think the issue of the rights of bicycle riders to the road is an important one. We ride on the city streets every day and, though some commenters on our post about changes we'd like to see made to Critical Mass in Seattle think that every driver goes out of his or her way to be respectful to us, we know it's not true. Seattle still has a lot to do for bike riders. Our streets are not very safe, nor welcoming to us. more ›

For the record, this Seattlest is a daily bike commuter who knows and appreciates the rights and responsibilities of biking in an urban environment. We also have a friend who was beaten by cops a couple years ago during a Critical Mass demonstration. While this post isn’t specifically about Friday’s incident at Seattle's Critical Mass on Capitol Hill, the event (and one just as scary in New York City) moved us to share these thoughts. more ›

At 4:45 a.m. Saturday morning, July 12th, 2,427 bicyclists set out from the Husky Stadium parking lot to make the 204.5-mile Group Health Seattle to Portland Classic in one day. Fifteen minutes before that, we were drowsily slumped over the steering wheel of our car, stuck in the traffic jam on NE 45th St. headed towards University Village. Around us, cyclists with enough foresight to their bikes to the event were zooming downhill, past the poor suckers who drove. more ›

We're stumped by those weight-activated turn arrows at intersections. When you're on a bike, what do you do? If you're at the head of the line, you don't have a car in front to trigger it and you're there forever. (And sometimes drivers politely avoid crowding you, and don't trigger the plate behind you.) more ›

"How I spent my Sunday" by Todd Bates more ›

So while Tyler Farrar was in town the other week, we fired off some email questions for him. Actually we were supposed to meet him at Joe Bar and show off our 1970s Sears 3-speed which he would have drooled over, but there were schedule complications. Anyway, for those of you not in the know, Tyler Farrar is a) a Seattle resident and Wenatchee native, b) almost 24, 6', 164 lbs., and c) on the U.S. Team in the Tour de France this year. He's fast, baby. more ›

"What did you do on Saturday?" more ›