Category: Biking
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Friday is Bike Everywhere Day!
Plan your commute accordingly, Friends.Felt compelled to do this PSA: Friday May 18th is Bike Everywhere Day! I’m just going to leave this link for Bike Everywhere Month here … Check it out for a map of the fun bike stations that will pop up around town on Friday. It’s a fun party atmosphere (er, starting at 6AM), and I’m…
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Pro-tip Tuesday:
Unintended Extra Groceries + Tote HackDo you ever go grocery shopping and discover that you’re picking up 150% more than you intended to buy, that you are really hungry, and now you’re trying to figure out how to bike or walk it all home? I recently picked up a new trick for those reusable sacs (usually cloth or polyester of…
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Friendly Friday – What do YOU think of bike share? 3 questions just for you.
On the coat tails of last week’s bike share cage match post: I’ve been curious: what are YOUR feelings on bike share, Dear Reader? Here are three questions for you. Check back for the aggregate results! [wpsqt name=”Bike Share survey” type=”poll”] Got more to add? Comment below to share!
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Seattle’s Bike Share Cage Match is on
like Donkey KongThere’s a new colorful set of creatures out in the lush urban jungle of Seattle. As native Seattlites hurry sweatily through the last summer “heat wave” of 76-80 degree weather, you might glimpse a flash of green and yellow behind a tree, a cheery orange appendage sidling up to the pavement, or a blur of…
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I learned to bike when I was 18
I learned to bike when I was eighteen. I had gone on the University of Minnesota’s excellent study abroad program to Tianjin, China. It’s two hours south of Beijing by train. The first week Charles Sanft, our Program Director took us to buy bikes for $20 apiece and told us that’d be our main transportation…
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Thrifty Thursday: How to Save on Shopping When You Bike
Right in time for April’s 30 Days of Biking: BicycleBenefits.org offers this $5 sticker which gets you discounts at different places across the nation! Just bring your stickered bike helmet in when you arrive on two wheels, and not only will you save marginal cost on gas and car maintenance, but literally get a discount when,…
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Pro-Tip Tuesday:
How to Fit More Gym Clothes in Your BagDid you make a resolution to get active and work out more this month? Are you feeling frazzled trying to stuff all your exercise clothes in a gym bag so you can work out before your commute home, but kind of favoring that “Old Bag Lady” (or Old Bag Gentleman) look in the process,…
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Tricking Yourself into Exercise:
Recipe for an Active Day on Two Wheels with City FruitI really wanted you to know this: Apples most likely originated in Kazakhstan from the Malus sieversii and brought over to America with European colonists then became a part of American culture with a little help from Mr. Appleseed himself, John Chapman. Around the turn of the 19th century, Johnny Appleseed bought some apple seeds…
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Cranksgiving Seattle 2013
In the last few years, through a dramatic health-related life event, I have (a)become a little more acutely grateful of being alive at all, and (b)felt a more urgent need to put in the time investments now to ensure a longer and healthier life. So in that vein, after the unhappy consequences of Reduced Sugar…