It’s true — the dates have been set for this year’s Bike to Work Week:Â May 16-22! Last year, Â Bike to Work Week that drew 1,472 registered participants. In total, during Bike to Work Week participants avoided more than 64,000 miles of vehicle transportation by riding their bikes. Volunteer committee chair Barb Chamberlain says the 2010 […]
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Yes. It’s true. As part of its participation in Spokane’s Commute Trip Reduction (CTR) program, The Fernwell Building and the City Ramp Garage are offering indoor bicycle parking in Downtown Spokane available to both Fernwell Building Tenants and the public. The City Ramp Garage is providing a ride-in, secured bicycle storage room in the basement
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There’s been lots of buzz about “complete streets” in Spokane recently. Now it’s time to get involved! Please read this invitation to the upcoming Complete Streets Spokane planning meeting from the executive director of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington. “If you have been reading the Spokesman Review and Out There Monthly, you know that there has been
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OTM senior writer and prolific “Cycling Spokane” blogger John Speare wrote a killer roundup of local bike advocacy progress — and his own cycling adventures — in 2009. Visit cyclingspokane.blogspot.com to read it.
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Check out this sweet new bike rack at the Opera House! It’s totally about to eat OTM editor Jon Snyder, who is unfazed, but would like to know why they’ve hidden the rack way in the back where no one will see or use it.
The Couer d’Alene office of J-U-B Engineers, a Boise-based civil engineering firm, was one of only three businesses in Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington recognized as Bicycle Friendly Businesses by the League of American Bicyclists. Mountain Gear in Spokane Valley and Rings & Things in Spokane also made the list. What qualified them? Shower facilities
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Tonight is the one-night-only screening of Race Across the Sky, a documentary from the 2009 Leadville Trail 100 bike race, one of the most intense endurance races of all time, and candid conversations with Lance Armstrong, Chris Carmichael, Dave Wiens, and other elite and amateur cyclists who participated in the race. In Spokane, see Race
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This Sunday from 9 am – 3 pm, join the Ice Age Floods Institute for a bike ride in the Columbia Plateau Rails to Trails park . Dr. Gene Kiver, who has been involved in Missoula Flood research in this region for many years, will lead the trip exploring the geologic story of eastern Washington.
Spokefest is on Sunday! The 21-mile non-competetive ride starting downtown is expected to draw about 3,000 participants this year. You can sign up all the way up to the morning of the ride, but register early to avoid a ridiculous line. Check out the Spokefest story on page 11 of the September issue of OTM.
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