Starbucks Bike to Work Day
This Friday, May 16

Here at Cascade Bicycle Club, Starbucks Bike to Work Day is our biggest event. It's the one day of the year when tens of thousands of ordinary folks are motivated to leave their cars at home and hop on a bike instead.

With our community's concern for the environment and gas prices on the rise, biking to work is an easy way to make a difference. Even if you are not a regular commuter, join us this Friday for Starbucks Bike to Work Day. We've even got a special workshop on Tuesday night to answer those burning questions from new commuters.

So come on Seattle! Let's show our families, neighbors, co-workers, politicians, business leaders and the media that
WE ♥ BIKES!

42 Commute Stations at Your Service
Ride in from the north, south, east or west! We've got 42 commute stations ready to treat you right this Friday. Bike to Work Day T-shirts are will be on sale for $12!

Each station will have loads of commuting info, free water bottles and Bike to Work Day drawing forms. Enter to win:

• Grand prize: Wild Heart Cycling trip, the "Wallowa Mountain Rambler" for one person.
• Scattante Americano bike courtesy of Performance Bicycle.
  
• Full Speed Ahead Wheel set
  
• Two passes to the Group Health Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic
• Cycling socks from Bike Hugger
• Gifts from Barefoot Wines

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Downtown Bike to Work Day Rally
Seattle City Hall 7:30 - 8:30 a.m.

Join us for free Starbucks coffee, Clif Bars, music, bike swag and commuter camaraderie.

Starting at 8 a.m., environmental and business leaders will tout the benefits and joys of bicycle commuting. Capping of the agenda will be hizzoner himself: Mayor Greg Nickels!

Fast Facts about Bicycling:

• Biking one mile instead of driving eliminates approximately 1 pound of CO2 emissions.
• Biking burns about 100 calories per every three miles.
• Driving costs $8,121 per year or 54.1 cents per mile, the AAA reported in April this year. Calculate your true cost of driving.
• And if those are not enough reasons, check out this list from the Sightline Institute.

Join Cascade's Bike Commute Director Chris Cameron and some of his notable special guest stars to find out the various strategies of approaching bike commuting from free to fantastical.

• A woman's perspective of the Seattle commute
• A "Grass Roots" low-impact, smallest possible carbon footprint philosophy to bike commuting
• An over-the-top bike commuter who loves "the stuff" almost as much as the commute

We'll talk about equipment, route selection, challenges, "new thinking", incorporating public transportation to "ease the miles" and traffic safety.

As of Monday, May 12, more than 8,300 people on 1,248 teams have joined the Group Health Commute Challenge and are riding their bicycles to work. So far participants have bicycled 318,000 miles, burned 10.5 million calories and saved more than 300,000 pounds of CO2. It's not too late to join the contest! Form a team of five and register today!

The first 300 riders who join Cascade online during the Challenge will receive a free event T-shirt. And teams with the most Cascade members have a chance to win Burley bike bags for everyone on their team! [more...]

On Monday, May 12, the Port of Seattle held a signing ceremony at the Wilburton Trestle in Bellevue to seal the $107 million deal between the Port and BNSF. This brings to a close the first and most important chapter for the 42 mile corridor between Renton and Snohomish -- that being getting it into public hands.

Thank you to the more than 1,275 people who took action by contacting the Port and the County about the corridor. In the coming weeks, we'll call on you to help us launch the next phase of our campaign to ensure nonmotorized transportation within the abandoned right of way.

'Spokesong' will delight you and capture your imagination.

Set in and around a bicycle shop in Belfast, this comic piece concerns Frank, the current operator of the shop founded by his grandfather. As his city in Northern Ireland becomes a war-zone, Frank dreams of peace through superior transportation -- the Bicycle. Part romance, part blithe-spirited social history, part musical and, not least of all, part lament for the religious and economic strife that has torn Ireland apart for so many years.

Cascade Bicycle Club Members get $5 off tickets for all Sunday - Thursday performances. Discount is good for box office sales only, by telephone at 206-524-1300, (open Tues-Sat, noon-5pm) or in-person on day of show. You must mention the order code "cascade".

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