Monday Outdoor Riding in the Evening (MORE) - bicycle ride August 17, 2026

Monday Outdoor Riding in the Evening (MORE) is excited to lead you through some of our favorite routes in and around Seattle and North Seattle.

August 17, 2026 from 5:50 - 8:50pm Ravenna, Northgate, Golden Gardens, Wallingford

Full details and registration here

Our rides start in the parking lot of Lower Woodland Park, across from Green Lake Way N @ 52nd Street. Be there, ready to go at 5:50pm. We'll start with a required safety briefing, and roll out when that's done. All riders must attend the safety briefing to participate.

Bike route for August 17 ride

Our routes take us as far south as Leschi and the International District and as far north as Edmonds, Briar and Lake Forest Park. Even occasionally across the 520 bridge. Please click the route map link for the specific route for a given week. As always, our goal is to have fun, get some training in and be social. Did I mention have fun?

Our Moderate routes have some hills. We will climb and descend hills at our own pace, and we will regroup frequently. Steady routes usually mirror the Moderate group's, but avoid some hills and tend to be shorter. Our routes often overlap, so it's not rare to see the other group(s) along the way.

We limit our speed on any multi-use paths to the legal maximum (usually 15 MPH).

Bathrooms are available at the start.

Bring a spare tube and tools to fix a flat, just in case. Other things to bring: phone; ID; cash and/or credit card; ORCA card; water and a small snack. Please have full fenders if the roads are wet, or you may be asked to ride at the rear of the group. The route lengths are chosen to get us back to the start before dark, but in the event of mishaps, it's always wise to have a headlight or headlamp with you. Taillights are always a good idea.

If weather conditions meet the weather cancellation criterion listed in the Weather Status or if there are unforeseen hazardous riding conditions or other unexpected events, the Ride Leader will cancel, and all registered riders will be sent a notification email. If the ride is cancelled less than two hours before the start, Ride Leader(s) will be at the start location. Please check before leaving for the ride.

Hope to ride with you soon!

What to Know Before You Go

• Advance registration required. Cancel if unable to attend, to open space for others.
• Must be present at safety briefing to participate.
• Helmets required.
• Riders under 18 years old require parental consent & approval from the Ride Leader.

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Op-Ed: Lime bikes are a nuisance

Story and Photos by Michael Bachety

I don’t want to be the curmudgeon I’ve become, but these lime bikes are a nuisance, to me at least. 

They are dumped everywhere and are heavy to move out of the way. So, I’d like to ask the community if it’s just me, and/or if something should be done to address this issue/problem.

In other cities, you must return the e-bike to any charging station (at stations, shops, schools, etc.) to end your ride; this being the infrastructure that we don’t have.

When I wrote to the city asking them to confront the company to build just that, or maybe penalize the rider a dollar if they park/dump an e-bike on a sidewalk, my eventual reply from the city was metaphorically an equity, finger-wagging admonition.

After I thought deeply as to how horribly insensitive of a human I am, for 3-5 seconds, I then thought well maybe the company could incentivize a rider by giving them a dollar for being responsible. 

This has the added benefit of the rider possibly realizing that other people use the sidewalks too and now I’m a considerate person with an extra dollar.

By the way, where is the equity for a resident in a wheelchair? Why do we even have ADA accessible curbs and sidewalks? 

I know people in wheelchairs exist. I see them hugging the side of the street on Linden Ave N. Honestly, that’s because we have no continuous sidewalks on Linden Ave N, though we have begged the city and were promised them, which has been about a decade now.

(Side note: if your kid goes to Shorewood HS and walks to Fred Meyer for lunch, they all walk in the street. I also hear the vroom of cars fly past these kids. I don’t know what the Doppler Effect is, but I know the sound of a car going double the speed limit.)

Anyway, I do see a necessary need for e-bikes for many practical reasons. 

All I’m asking is to end this laissez-faire attitude of governing and proactively address these types of situations that arise, and specifically how we can all get around safely within our community - all of us.

Michael Bachety

Shoreline

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Annual STP bike ride expected to bring 6,000 bicyclists to western Washington roads July 11-12, 2026

Photo courtesy Cascade Bicycle Club

On Saturday, July 11, and Sunday, July 12, 2026 roughly 6,000 bicyclists will ride western Washington’s state highways and local roads on both days for the 2026 Seattle To Portland Bicycle Classic event (STP).

The Washington State Department of Transportation asks motorists to observe the rules of the road for safe driving around people on bikes and to prepare for travel delays during the popular recreational ride.

Bicyclists should also be aware of their responsibility to follow Washington’s bicycle rules of the road and traffic laws. The STP organizer, the Cascade Bicycle Club, distributes a free pocket guide about state bike laws. To request a copy of the guide, email info@cascade.org.

The Washington portion of the STP route follows state highways and local roads in these areas:

• State Route 513 – University of Washington Montlake Boulevard parking lot to Northeast Pacific Place.
• City of Seattle – Boyer Avenue to Lake Washington Boulevard to Seward Park and Rainer avenues.

For more STP event information, visit the Cascade Bicycle Club STP page, which includes a route map and overall event details or email info@cascade.org.

Registration is closed for the event, which has maxed out at 6,000 participants.

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Volunteer to keep bike lanes clear with Meryl Sweep

Urbanist Shoreline has a brand pedal-powered bike lane sweeper, MERYL SWEEP! 

MERYL SWEEP, our pedal-powered bike lane sweeper, is up and running!!! (Thanks to everyone who helped with the all-important task of naming this grand dame.)

Want to help keep Shoreline’s bike lanes debris-free? Join a volunteer training! Meryl is easier to tow with an e-bike, but any bike will work.

Two upcoming trainings: 

• Saturday, June 27, 2026 at 11am
• Wednesday, July 8, 2026 at 6:30pm
• Both will be held at the Shoreline Tool Library 16610 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline 98133

Then help sweep Shoreline's bike lanes this summer, from July to November. Meryl will be kept at the Shoreline Tool Library and you can sign up for sweeper shifts after training. We will work with you to schedule a sweeper shift at a time convenient for you.

Meryl Sweep, and our volunteer trainings, are made possible in part through a City of Shoreline Environmental Mini-Grant.

Sign up for volunteer training

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Two more days for Shoreline residents to apply for discounts on e-bikes

Closing soon! Thinking about buying an e-bike? 

The City of Shoreline is making it more affordable than ever. Apply for a discount by June 17, 2026.

Learn more and apply at ShorelineWA.gov/PedalForward.

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Dembowski begins a process to bridge the gap in the Interurban Trail

The Interurban Trail stops at 200th Street in Shoreline and breaks east before continuing over State Route 104 — a highway intersection that sees more than 41,000 daily cars. (Screenshot via Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map)

Last year, when King County voters approved Proposition 1’s six-year, $1.45 billion parks levy, King County Councilmember Rod Dembowski planted a seed for the Interurban Trail, the roughly 30-mile-long path following an old rail line that once connected Everett to Seattle.

“For a century or more, that corridor has connected the region — until we took out the trolley a long time ago and built a highway across it, and disrupted that connection,” Dembowski said Friday. “And it’s long past time to restore it in a safe way.”

During an event at Shoreline’s Echo Lake Park, Dembowski explained that he secured $5 million of the money generated through the levy to reconnect the Interurban Trail from its King County endpoint, near the Aurora Village Transit Center, to its Snohomish County endpoint on the other side of State Route 104/N 205th St.

“This is just the beginning, but it is, I think, the first sign of real forward momentum to really reconnect King County with Snohomish County in a safe way, and really complete this regional trail network,” Dembowski said.

The Interurban Trail descends from the Everett-Seattle Interurban rail line, which ran from 1910 to 1939, and ultimately became a utility corridor. In the 1990s, Snohomish County and the cities of Lynnwood and Everett opened an 11.8-mile pedestrian and cycling route along that path. 

Shoreline began its development of the Interurban in the mid-2000s. From Shoreline heading south, the trail winds down a combination of protected bike lanes and sharrow-marked streets to the Fremont Bridge and into Downtown Seattle.

Rod Dembowski, King County Councilmember

Dembowski gave credit to North Sound Bicycle Advocates (NSBA), a nonprofit organization that works to improve infrastructure, road safety and promote cycling in North King and South Snohomish counties.

In 2024, amid a push by advocates to close the Interurban gap, NSBA brought Dembowski to visit the trail on a walking tour. 

From the Aurora Village Transit Center in Shoreline, he saw the end of the existing trail, forcing travelers to cut east, then north, to cross the state highway and rejoin the trail.

He remembered watching as a lone cyclist struggled to find the trail and continue their ride. 

And, according to Washington State Department of Transportation data, the intersection of State Route 104/N 205th and Meridian Avenue North/76th Avenue West averages about 41,000 cars daily — about 12,000 more than the intersection of Aurora Avenue and 205th Street, half a mile away. That tour, he said, compelled him to act.

The parks levy included major investments into King County’s regional trail system, Dembowski said, but none for the “missing link” to the Interurban Trail — until he included the $5 million set-aside as a “down payment” on the work. He also carved out funding from the County budget that assigned staff to lead the project forward, beginning with a study of what’s possible.

“My idea was to use our knowledge and capabilities as a regional government to fulfill that regional leadership role here across the governments and bring some starter money to it,” Dembowski said. “Community advocates can only go so far. At some point, the government needs to respond.”

Edmonds resident Gordon Black, who serves as vice president of NSBA, said that Dembowski has encouraged him and his fellow advocates to “think big.” He feels the best option for connection would be a bridge spanning State Route 104.

“We feel very excited that we’ve made progress in getting a study, and then the next installment will be to work with state and federal officials to get funding for construction,” Black said. He estimates that a bridge project would cost between $12 million and $16 million. “We believe that we’ll let the experts, the engineers and others determine the range of options,” he said.

Dembowski also observed the power — and potential — of the trail as a transit project connecting bus transit to light rail, which could bring additional funding.

When asked, Dembowski declined to guess when the Interurban gap may be closed.

“I think maybe, in six to nine months, we’ll have a better understanding of what the timeline may be,” he said.

As for his goal?

“I want to see the vanquishment of the missing link. I want to see the folks that we’ve seen coming by here on bicycles and wheelchairs — walking, biking, rolling, strollering — to be able to go all the way north, and for our friends from the north to come south,” Dembowski said.

--David Mendez is the publisher of The Osprey

--Republished from MyEdmondsNews.com

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Urbanist Shoreline Walk + Bike Audit May 30, 2026

Saturday, May 30, 2026

10am - approximately 1pm

Meet at Paramount Park 

(near the picnic shelter)

15300 8th Ave NE, Shoreline WA 98155

Join Urbanist Shoreline for a walk + bike audit of some of the streets being considered for Shoreline's East Side Off-Corridor Bike Network. 

This fun community exploration will help pave the way for the City's formal community engagement and planning process for this new bike infrastructure, which will kick off later this year.

What's a Walk + Bike Audit?

It's basically just an on-the-ground tour of current infrastructure, barriers, and opportunities for future connection. 

We will split into two groups, and using bikes and our feet, move along some of the routes being considered. 

We'll take pictures, observe traffic patterns, and take notes. It will be fun!

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Shoreline declares Bike Month; cuts bike lanes

Shoreline cut bike lanes on this section of Meridian Ave from the Transportation Improvement Plan (Oliver J Moffat)

By Oliver J Moffat

The Shoreline city council will declare May Bike Month and then review a Transportation Plan that cuts bike lanes. After proclaiming Earth Day, the city said greenhouse gas emissions are down only 6% towards the 60% reduction goal. Bike crashes hit record highs in Shoreline.

The Shoreline council will proclaim May National Bike Month at the Monday, May 4, 2026 meeting, followed by a public hearing on the 6-year Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP).

Bike lanes on Meridian Ave (from 175th to 200th) were cut because of understaffing, says the transportation plan. With costs rising, the city returned the grant and cancelled the safety project.

More cyclists are being hit by drivers on Shoreline roads, according to the latest Traffic Report.

The 175th Street Corridor project costs ballooned again. The project would keep the road from collapsing during an earthquake and improve safety at Meridian Park elementary school. But costs have increased from $88,608,200 in 2024 to an estimated $107,459,210 in the latest TIP. 

A Transportation Improvement Plan map shows funded (blue), partially funded (yellow) and unfunded (red) projects in Shoreline 

Sidewalks connecting the North City business district to the Shoreline North Light Rail station are so far in the future that they have no completion dates, and costs increased from $17 million to over $24 million. 

The city shortened the 15th Ave NE safety project in North City. Previously, pedestrian improvements along 15th Ave NE were planned from 175th to 200th, but now the city has shrunk the project to between 180th to 196th. 

Over $148 million in transportation projects aren't funded.

Earlier, at the April 27 meeting, the council proclaimed Earth Day and discussed the Climate Action Plan.

The city made little progress towards its climate goals with 61% of climate pollution spewed from tailpipes in Shoreline.

Council member Laura Mork asked, “We had said by 2030 we'd have a 60% greenhouse gas reduction. How are we doing on that?”

“We're only down 6%. So we have 54% to go,” city staff said. 

Bike Month and Earth Day proclamations are available on the city’s website. 

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Shoreline’s E-Bike rebates reduced pollution

E-Bikes parked at the Shoreline Costco bike rack
Photo by Oliver J Moffat

By Oliver J Moffat

Shoreline residents who got an e-bike last year drove less and polluted less. More e-bike rebates are available. 

Shoreline gave 125 e-bikes to residents in the city’s most polluted neighborhoods in Ridgecrest and Briarcrest last year. 

Those e-bike recipients drove less, reducing tons of climate pollution.

Last year’s e-bike recipients reduced their car usage, driving an average of 1.3 fewer days per week. 

They replaced about 2.26 car trips per week, totaling about 859 fewer vehicle miles per year for each rider, said the Pedal Forward Shoreline Final Report.

Collectively, that prevented an estimated 43 metric tons of CO₂ from being spewed annually, said the report. 

To remove that much climate pollution from the air, thousands of mature trees would need to be planted, based on MIT and USDA data for how much CO₂ a single tree absorbs each year.

An e-bike hauling free trees from Shoreline’s communi-trees event 
Photo by Oliver J Moffat

Shoreline’s Pedal Forward program will again be giving out e-bike rebates, fully funded by a State Department of Ecology $125,000 grant, according to recent city budget documents.

Shoreline residents can apply for a $500 e-bike rebate, and low-income residents can get $1,500 rebates.

In addition, all Washington residents can apply for an e-bike rebate from the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT).

Washington residents, age 16 and older, can apply for a WSDOT rebate of $300 or $1,200 depending on household income on eligible e-bikes. 

Most climate pollution in Shoreline spews from tailpipes: 55% of climate pollution comes from transportation.

Shoreline’s Climate Action Plan seeks to reduce miles driven per person 20% by 2030 and 50% by 2050 to cut that pollution down.

According to the Shoreline Climate Action Plan 2025 Year In Review, there was a 16% decrease in miles driven per person per day compared to the 2019 baseline. 

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From Rails to Trails - Film Screening at MOHAI

The Great American Rail Trail
Illustration by Anderson Design

A recent documentary unveils the history behind one of America’s most unlikely social movements: turning abandoned rail lines into public trails.

Join Cascade Bicycle Club for a special showing of From Rails to Trails, narrated by actor Edward Norton, at the Museum of History and Industry on Friday, March 13, 2026 from 7-9pm.

If you have ever ridden on the Burke-Gilman Trail, you’ve traversed part of a vast, 3,700-mile network known as the Great American Rail-Trail. 

The ambitious project of converting the nation’s abandoned rail lines into public corridors, supported by more than a century of advocacy, is the subject of a recent PBS documentary, From Rails to Trails.

Narrated by actor Edward Norton, the film tells the story of one of the most unlikely social movements in American history. Join MOHAI and Cascade Bicycle Club for a special showing of the film. 

Tyler Vasquez, Seattle Policy and Advocacy Officer, will serve as the event’s MC, bringing energy while highlighting the bike lanes delivered over the past five years and sharing a vision for the future of biking across the Puget Sound. 

He will also engage with the audience by answering questions about Seattle’s Bicycle Network and discussing how we can carry forward the momentum built by the advocates who came before him.

From 6-7pm, celebrate and explore Riding Together: 135 Years of Cycling in Seattle, MOHAI’s current exhibition on display through April 26.

Register to Attend this Event

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Registration open for the Emerald City Bicycle Ride

Emerald City Ride photo courtesy Cascade Bicycle Club

Registration opened Tuesday for the historic Emerald City Ride, which offers the rare chance to bike on the West Seattle Bridge car-free. Join thousands of happy people on bikes on April 25, 2026 and experience Seattle from a unique vantage.

Cascade Bicycle Club worked with the City of Seattle and the Washington State Department of Transportation to temporarily close the westbound lanes of the West Seattle Bridge and the southbound lanes of Washington State Route 99 to motor vehicles for several hours on the morning hours of Saturday, April 25.

Register here

See the list of other planned rides

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Registration open for Seattle to Portland (STP) and Chilly Hilly bicycle rides

Ready to Ride
Photo by Mary Jo Heller

Presented by Alaska Airlines, the annual STP ride is scheduled for Saturday, July 11, 2026 at 5:00am through Sunday, July 12, 2026 at 7:00pm.

The Cascade Bicycle Club, now in its 47th year organizing the event, provides access to rest stops, ride support, baggage truck service, a meal at the finish line, and an STP finisher souvenir. 

They have volunteer crews of mechanics and medical staff.

Their website is rich in details about the event itself as well as training events. Registration is open now.

Look for increasing numbers of bicyclists on the road as thousands of local cyclists train for this 207 mile ride. 

Over 6,000 riders participated in last year's event, including Portland riders who came to Seattle for the start.

Cyclists headed for the start of the 2025 Chilly Hilly ride fill the ferry car deck.
Photo courtesy WSDOT

Registration is also open for the one-day Chilly Hilly ride February 22, 2026 from 7am - 3pm a 33-mile ride which circles Bainbridge Island. That event is in its 54th year.

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Bicycle parkour

Photos by Lee Lageschulte

Photographer Lee Lageschulte was in the right place at the right time to capture photos of this athlete practicing his parkour skills on the rocks at the Edmonds waterfront.

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Join a community workshop to improve walking and biking near light rail stations February 10 and 11, 2026

Join our community workshops and help us plan where new sidewalks and bike lanes should go.

Shoreline South / 148th Station workshop

February 10, 2026 from 7-8:30pm

Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Church

14724 1st Ave NE, Shoreline WA 98155

Shoreline North / 185th Station workshop

February 11, 2026 from 7-8:30pm

Spartan Recreation Center

202 NE 185th St, Shoreline WA 98155

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Bike crashes hit record highs in Shoreline

Pedestrian and bicycle crashes account for 40% of fatal and serious injuries

By Oliver J Moffat

Bike crashes hit an all-time high in Shoreline last year. Total car crashes increased too, but the number of Fatal and Serious Injury declined.

The city of Shoreline released its Annual Traffic Report covering data for 2024 and the city council will talk about it on Monday, December 15, 2025.

Fatal and Serious Injury (FSI) collisions 2024

According to the report, the total number of car crashes increased in 2024 compared to 2023 but Fatal and Serious Injury (FSI) Crashes dropped in 2024 to 8 crashes from a record high 17 crashes in 2023.

Drivers hit three fewer pedestrians last year, down slightly from a record-high of 23 pedestrian collisions to 20 in 2024.

Drivers hitting bicyclists reached an all time record in 2024. There were 15 car crashes involving a bike rider in 2024. In comparison, there were 4 bike riders hit by drivers in 2008.

For obvious reasons, when a driver hits a pedestrian or bicyclist, the non-drivers is more likely to be killed or seriously injured. 

Although pedestrians and bicyclists were involved in only 5% of total crashes, they accounted for 40% of all fatal and serious injury crashes over the past ten years, according to the traffic report.

The Traffic Report also includes data on which roads have the worst speeding and which intersections had the worst crashes. Speeding is a particular problem on 175th street.

Streets with persistent speeding violations

Earlier this year, the city said over 1,000 drivers per day violate the speed limit in front of Meridian Park Elementary while children are present and the 20 mph school zone lights are flashing.

Twenty five years ago, the state adopted a “Target Zero” goal to achieve zero fatal and serious injury crashes by the year 2030. Shoreline has yet to adopt a Target Zero goal.

The city council approved $395,000 in the current budget for the city’s Traffic Safety Improvement Program. In comparison, the city council recently spent $234,048 for the ShoreLights winter light display along Aurora Ave near city hall.

You can read the Shoreline 2024 Annual Traffic Report and provide public comment to the city council on the city’s website.

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Pedaling Relief Project delivers 300 pounds of food donated by Safeway to the North Helpline food bank

The Pedaling Relief Project of the Cascade Bicycle Club dropped off 300 lbs of food from the Safeway on Roosevelt & Gopuff to the North Helpline food bank. 

PRP organizes teams of volunteers who use bicycles and electric bikes pulling cargo trailers to rescue and collect donated food from farmers markets, grocery stores, and other locations and delivers them to local food access organizations.

Learn more here about Pedalist Relief

North Helpline is a busy social service agency that operates two food banks - one in Lake City and one at Bitter Lake.

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Bicyclist rescued after fall from trail at St. Edwards

Photos courtesy Shoreline Fire

Our firefighters train constantly and this kind of technical rescue is one of the things they train for.

Saturday morning September 6, 2025 just after 9am, teams were dispatched to a Trail Rescue at St. Edwards Park in Kenmore for a mountain biking accident. The rider had gone over their handlebars and down the wooded hillside.

The trail, popular with hikers, is very steep, dropping down to Lake Washington. Ravines full of trees and vegetation fill the hillside.

Due to the location and terrain, a high-angle rope rescue response was required.

The responding units were:

• Rescue 151
• Aid 151
• Kirkland WA Fire Department
• Bothell Fire Department Battalion Chief

Rope rescue operations were initiated to safely access, stabilize and extract the patient.

Following the rescue, the patient was transported by aid car to a local hospital for further evaluation and treatment.

The operation was completed successfully with no additional injuries reported to responders.

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Cyclocross event at Shoreview Park September 6, 2025

Cyclocross event at Shoreview Park Saturday, September 6, 2025

On Saturday, September 6, Lemon Peel will host a cyclocross race event at Shoreview Park. Racing begins at 9:00am and last until 4:00pm.

Cyclocross* is a fast-paced, dynamic style of bicycle racing that makes use of multiple features of the park—including the baseball fields, soccer fields, and surrounding open spaces.

The course will be fully marked for safety, and spectators are encouraged to come out to enjoy the excitement. The event is family-friendly, with free kids’ races offered throughout the day.

Full race details here

Questions or additional information: steve@lemonpeelproductions.com

*Cyclocross is a form of bicycle racing featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and obstacles requiring the rider to quickly dismount, carry the bike while navigating the obstruction and remount.

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Tour de Bike Racks with Urbanist Shoreline Saturday August 9, 2025

Photo courtesy The Local 104

This Saturday, August 9, 2025 Urbanist Shoreline will be leading a fun, casual, SLOW bike crawl across Shoreline to visit the businesses where we installed new bike racks this summer. 

That’s right, it’s a TOUR DE BIKE RACKS!!!

The start time for the ride is 11am. We’ll make several stops including a lunch stop at the Shoreline Farmers Market, and will end with OPTIONAL beer and bowling at Spin Alley! 

Seriously, this is going to be so, so fun.

Meet at the Local 104 at 18498 Ballinger Way NE, Lake Forest Park WA 98155 at 11am, or later along the route.

RSVP here to be sent the route and any updates.

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