Come to a meeting every third Thursday at 7:00 at the MArge Williams Center

Nobody will THINK of stealing your bike with this snake lock!

Come ride in the Fourth of July Parade!

We hope to have a Giant Pie Float and YOU!! more... Molly Griest Pie Meister rides in the July 4th parade.

Save the Date! Come ride BIKE for PIE
10:30 a.m. August 30, Sunday

It's Bike for Pie time again! Be sure to mark your calendar and pack your fork! more...

Bike the Garden Tour - BI in Bloom

This year the tour is FLAT and only two miles!! more...

Car-less Sundays on Bainbridge

Local Grace Episcopal measures their ecological footprint and tries to reduce it. more..

Bikes Ride FREE on Alki Water Taxi

One of the most charming Seattle summer events is in full swing. more...

Include Cycling in Your Life

Here are ideas to help you cycle everyday. more...

Ride of Silence Honored Injured Cyclists

For the second year, Bainbridge cyclists joined to ride and remember. Here is a great video of the ride. more...

Come Ride with us in the July 4th Parade!

Ride with squeaky wheels in the Fourth of July Parade. Everyone is welcome!! This year we are promoting our Bike for Pie Ride (see the next article) on August 30. Decorate yourself and your bike in a Pie-related theme, meet at the library parking lot at 12:15 and pedal downhill. Above squeaky board member Nick Beer demonstrates in 2007 how much space a car would take up compared to his bike!

It's BIKE for PIE Ride - Save the Date!
10:30 a.m. - Sunday, August 30

NEW and IMPROVED for 2009? We are always trying to improve on our ride! So come ride (with helmet) and eat all the sweet and savory pie you can. We want you to ride a bike and we're not afraid to give you pie to prove it. This year we will be working with Helpline House and the Trust for Working Landscapes. We'll be taking donations of food for Helpline House at the Marge Williams Center.

TIME and PLACE? On Sunday morning, August 30, meet at the home to non-profits - the Marge Williams Center, 221 Winslow Way West, across from the Winslow Green on Bainbridge Island at 10:30 and ride to eat pie. In the past we have offered two levels of rides, a shorter one about five miles and a longer one. This year the longer ride will include another farm stop for pie and then the final pie reward as well. Our oldest rider so far has been 74 years old and our youngest has been 5!! The event will last from about 11:00 to 2:00 or until everyone is SICK of pie. Rain or shine.

Can I just ride from my house to Fort Ward? Yes, Absolutely. No pie will served until the first group arrives from the Marge Williams Center, but we want everyone to ride as best they can. Wherever. Whenever.

Second Annual Ride of Silence

On Wednesday, May 20, Bainbridge riders joined other cyclists around the world for this moving ride. This year an estimated 22,500 riders attended over 300 rides worldwide. Last year in Seattle, over 1000 cyclists took to the roads in silence to honor fellow cyclists who have been killed or injured while bicycling on public roadways. Here is coverage by Sean Roach of the Bainbridge Island Review with a great video of this year's Bainbridge ride. Special thanks to Tom Faddis for his wonderful skills on the bagpipes.

The Ride of Silence is to honor those who have been injured or killed, to raise awareness that we are here, and to ask that we all share the road. It builds awareness of the legal rights of bicyclists and encourages our community to join the growing trend of finding alternatives to driving to work, undertaking healthy recreation and doing something positive to reduce global warming.

Bike the Bainbridge Garden Tour

This year the Bainbridge in Bloom Garden Tour is in the Agate Point neighborhood, so it will be a level and easy bike ride since all the gardens are close to each other along a two mile loop. For detailed information check the Bloom website here!

Carless Sunday Creates Community

A one-time Carless Sunday event at Grace Episcopal Churchhas grown into a long-term program that is raising awareness about global warming. Inspired by Earth Ministry’s On the Road program, the church sponsored its first Carless Sunday April 2007. Now Carless Sunday is a monthly event on the last Sunday of the month from April to September.

Organizers created a large map of the island, divided it into zones, and created lists of parishioners in each zone. They hung it in the narthex and encouraged people to look in their zone to find someone with whom to carpool.Organizers estimate parishioners drove nearly 350 fewer miles than they would have driven on a regular Sunday morning.

Organizer Marcia Lagerloef emphasizes the importance of making creation care activities fun and playful. She notes that carpooling and biking both create community. “It’s our hope that extending invitations to do things together will be rewarding, and that ultimately, a sense of community will support the whole thing.” She hopes to make the program a larger movement among religious communities on Bainbridge Island, and is working to share Grace’s story with other churches.

Bikes Ride FREE on Alki Water Taxi

This is one of my favorite things to do in the summer. Water Taxi service to west Seattle across Elliott Bay operates seven days a week, between Pier 55 at the foot of Spring Street on the downtown Seattle waterfront and Seacrest dock in West Seattle.

The two deck Elliott Bay Water Taxi holds 149 passengers, and provides an area for passengers to park their bikes. The Elliott Bay Water Taxi began in 1998 as a way to ease congestion on the West Seattle Bridge. Today, the taxi helps more than 100,000 people travel to and from West Seattle for work and play.

Crossing time is approximately 12 minutes, and ferries run aproximately every 40 minutes. Passenger fare is $3.00, but bikes ride FREE on a space available basis. (I have never been turned away; they always seem to tuck the bikes somewhere. ) There is even a special schedule for Mariner's game days.

From Bainbridge you can ride onto the ferry, then head left down the waterfront to Pier 55. There you board the tiny ferry and ride over to West Seattle. You can ride around the shore, eat lunch or picnic and head home. This is a great ride with friends, guests or family.

For scheduling and fare information, click here or call (206) 553-3000 (TTY 206-684-1739).

Easy 2009 Cycling Resolutions

Do one errand by bike. By now everyone must have heard that most trips are within 5 miles of home. This one is good for your health, your wallet AND the planet! Three fer!!!

Volunteer for squeaky wheels. Come join us every third Thursday at the Marge Williams Center on Winslow Way. You can also check out the volunteer ideas divided by how much time you have to volunteer. Here are some of the things we do, or bring your own project!

Take your bike in and have a tune-up. Just that. And see where it leads...

Map/Cue Sheet library for your next ride!

If you need new route inspiration or you're looking for some folks to ride with, check out the Seattle Bicycle Touring Club site. This group is a tremendous resource. SBTC has a great bicycle map/cue sheet library that you can download in the form of pdfs. Each week, weather permitting, the club provides at least one ride for each level of cyclist: beginning, social and intermediate. All rides are in Seattle and surrounding areas except for the monthly outing which is a 1-3 day excursion to places like the Washington Coast, Olympic Peninsula, Vancouver Island, Yakima Wine Country or Mount Rainier National Park.