All cycling is local. It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted a compendium. Let’s remedy that with some local news:
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Dead Baby Bikes rider. Photo by slightlynorth. Click for full size image.
Two fun cycle events in Seattle this weekend! Saturday, the Bicycle Music Festival at multiple locations and times (It’s aliiive! It moves!!). Sunday the fourth annual Seattle Bike-In at Cal Anderson Park, bands at 7, the slapstick bicycle-themed movie Jour de Fete at dusk. (Watch for me, I’m on an old stickered blue Miyata 1000 with a classic brass bell on the bars.)
- Bicycle Film Festival is (finally) coming to Seattle the week of September 12. I am very psyched to see Where Are You Go and the other films; BFF was one of my first Bikejuju posts ever.
- Seattle’s Dead Baby Downhill celebration of freakbikes and velopunk madness was held on the one weekend I left town this summer. Of course. Photos.
- Seattle’s August Future Tense was featured as a video on Vimby.
- It feels like there are WAY more folks cycling this summer – let’s count and find out! The Washington State Documentation Project occurs annually in the early fall (here’s the 2008 report – PDF 4MB). DOT needs volunteers to help count, in shifts, 9/29-30 and 10/1. Here’s the info on signing up. (Non-Washingtonians – many places do counts like this in late September – contact your Department of Transportation).
- And slightly further afield, like Linerider come to life, check out the winning rides at Crankworx.
Blogs I have been enjoying, Seattle edition:
- Totcycle (Kidical Mass!), Velotopia, Car Free Days, Bike2Work2Live2Bike, Biking Bis, Bike Intelligencer, Kent’s Bike Blog, ZlogBlog, GoMeansGo, Seattle Likes Bikes, Cycling in Seattle, Sweetbike, and of course, the affectionate inventor of the “Mobile Social” (and also the Clip ‘n’ Seal!). Who’d I miss? Post a comment.
