May 18

Friday is Bike to Work/School Day

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Commute cyclists – who seem to be all over the news currently (here’s today’s column by Danny Westneat in The Seattle Times) – will be out in force Friday.

May is National Bike to School Month, and this Friday is our local Bike to Work/School Day, sponsored by the Cascade Bicycle Club.

Among those participating is Olympic View Elementary, 504 N.E. 95th St., which will up the ante with special guests from the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department, plus an emergency response vehicle featured at the school.

The bike club is hosting 41 cycle commuter stations around the area, although the closest to Maple Leaf are at North Seattle Community College and Green Lake. There’s an interactive map here.

Remember to give Maple Leaf cyclists extra credit, as they commute up the third highest hill in Seattle!

Anybody have plans for bicycling on Friday?

(PS: No, the photos are not from here. They are from a recent trip to Italy, where practically everybody seems to ride a bike. When they aren’t riding scooters or Smart Cars.)

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  1. I ride most days, but this week, and especially this Friday are a blast because with all the extra company (not to mention the weather) it’s extra festive!

  2. This is great. And to the bike commuters who may be joining in for the first time, please ride smart. Use hand signals when necessary, obey the rules of the road, don’t pass wrong, have your lights and other safety equipment in place. It takes one bad, rude rider to tarnish all bike riders. Don’t be that one.

  3. Can’t wait for Friday. With the good weather I bet there will be 20,000 + riders this year.

    I’m a normal bike commuter anyway (gotta love that climb up 5th from Greenlake), but my wife and I are planning on making it a family bike commute, first to daycare for the kiddo, and then split up and head off to work.

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