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Seattle Children’s Livable Streets Open House June 23rd

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Anne | Leave a comment

Are you interested in learning more about the Seattle Children’s Livable Streets Initiative? Head on down to their open house at Gould Hall on Saturday, June 23rd and find out what they’ve been up to.

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Tagged Children's Seattle, livable streets, Open House, Seattle Children's Livable Streets

9 to 5: Register Now for the All-Night Bike Scavenger Hunt

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Anne | Leave a comment

Go ahead and register, you know you want to. It’s the most fun you’ll have on a bike in the middle-of-the-night all year, I guarantee it. Continue reading →

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Tagged 2012, 9-5, go means go, June 16, seattle, Solstice, up all night

Check out Davey’s Blog

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Anne | 3 comments

One of our favorite bikers in Seattle has become a family biker and he now has a new blog. And I must say, he’s on fire. Davey is single-handedly putting us old and lazy bloggers to shame. I love his writing and his playful humor, be sure to start at the beginning.

We always enjoy running into Davey on the road. He takes the time to stop, say hello, chat for a bit and share funny stories. I leave these impromptu meet-ups with a smile on my face and just a little more hope for humanity. Davey is good people. Continue reading →

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Tagged bikes, blog, Davey Oil, Family Cycling, xtracycle

Xtracycle Reader (the video)

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Anne | 5 comments

By now you know that the Car Free Days family isn’t always prompt about posting to our blog. We have the very best intentions to keep it from getting old and moldy, but often life gets in the way and we push those blog updates aside.

We’ve officially taken procrastination to new heights. I’m more than a little bit ashamed to admit that this video edit is almost 4-years in the making: we’ve been saving this un-edited footage since August 2008. I started to edit it a few times but I just never got around to finishing it (kinda like Tim’s plan to finish his kid bike series). Continue reading →

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Posted in bikes, extravehicular activities, family cycling, kids, longbikes, xtracycle

Tagged 2008, bikes, kids, reading, seattle, summer, xtracycle

Bike to School Day

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Anne | 2 comments

7222292360_0bdf0728cb 128 kid bikes, add some parent bikes, 8 dozen doughnuts, much-needed coffee for the parents who don’t like to get up earlier than necessary, police escorts riding with the kids and blocking intersections with patrol cars = successful Bike to School Day.

We hope you enjoyed Bike to School Day and Bike to Work Day!

more photos here

– Anne and Tim

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Posted in bigger than here, bikes, extravehicular activities, family cycling, neighborhoods, School, seattle, sustainability

Tagged Bike to School Month, family, Family Cycling, kids, School

ATP (Alternative Transportation Project): Leave the Car at Home

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Anne | Leave a comment

Thanks, Jorge, for sending us this video!

The entire Car Free Days family enjoyed watching this whimsical video that’s a refreshing reminder of the fun involved in leaving our cars at home on occasion!

Happy Bike-to-School-And-Work-Day tomorrow!

– Anne

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Tagged 2012, alternative transportation, Alternative Transportation Project, Argentina, ATP, Buenos Aries

Motivating the Stoker

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Anne | 6 comments

We’ve been busy this spring getting ready for our Pacific Coast bike tour in July (even though we’d love to do the whole thing, we only have time for Seattle to SFO). We’re buying light weight camping gear, planning our route, getting the bikes set up and doing lots of tandem riding on the weekends. The whole family goes for at least one long ride every week – usually between 20 and 35 miles. We’ll slowly build up to 50 miles by the time we’re ready to roll out-of-town in July. Continue reading →

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Tagged bike touring, family bike touring, riding with kids, stoker, tandem, training

Talk about Walk & Bike to School programs Thurs!

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Tim K | Leave a comment

Walk.Bike.Schools! is a blog, meeting (7pm Thursday @ Bryant Elementary library) and (hopefully) a movement to support and encourage parents and kids walking and biking to school.

Our mission (though calling it such seems a little grand right now) is to build a network of parents, neighbors, members of school communities, and yes, students, who can share ideas and energy around the goal of encouraging more kids and families to bike to school—at least some of the time.

Our loose group of ~6-8 parents has been reasonably successful—Bryant won SDOT’s Golden Shoe award for the largest number of students regularly arriving on foot or bike last year. But we know things could be so much better if we could tap into the collective intelligence of other bike and walk programs in our city and learn what as worked (and not worked) elsewhere. Continue reading →

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Tagged bike, carfree kids, kids, schools, seattle, walk

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Action is Afoot (and a-Bicycle, for that matter)

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Tim K | 10 comments

(edit:I’ve been told that a shared definition of a Neighborhood Greenway would be helpful for some readers. We’re working toward our “ideal vision” but in the meantime check out the “What is a neighborhood Greenway” section in this post by Sally Bagshaw for the basics. -Tim)

The Carfreedays family is jumping into the hotbed of Seattle Greenways grass-roots activism and joining up with our neighbors in NE Seattle on the NE Greenways project!

Greenways fit with the kind of riding we do (parent and kid-powered transportation), and c0uld really be the key resource for making it safer and easier for kids all over this city to skip the minivan and ride bikes or walk to school!

We don’t claim to be Greenways experts but we have some strong feelings, nonetheless. We’ve been riding around Seattle for longer than we’d like to admit. We know this city pretty well. We know the terrain and the people and the baggage that comes with both. And we’ve been avidly riding the streets of PDX on visits for the past five years or so. We aren’t Stumptown natives by any stretch, but we have more than a passing familiarity of what it feels like to ride the Green Streets of our fair neighbor. Continue reading →

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Tagged bikes, greenways, Safe Routes to School, seattle, seattle neighborhood greenways

Grand-mère rocks the folding-bike wheelie

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Tim K | 5 comments

Daily Bike surfaced this beauty with the title “Most Awesome Wheelie ever.” While I won’t disagree with that assessment, I can’t help but notice the photo is chock-a-block full of awesomeness (like most-awesome everyday-cycling role model, most-active grandma, best Parisian folding-bike wheelie, and best Parisian cargo-bike wheelie, for starters).