Join us for the Unveiling Party!

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We’re about to turn up the fun on bike riding at Magnuson Park! We hope you’ll join us on Saturday, Sept. 17 from 1-3 p.m. for the unveiling party of YOUR newly completed Cascade Bicycling Center. Check out the new digs, stay cool with delicious local ice cream and cake and relax to fun live music. The party will also feature a Kidical Mass ride, helmet fitting and bicycle rodeo. The event is free and family friendly to all.

The milestone occasion, more than a year in the making, will celebrate all of our wonderful supporters who made this bicycling dream a reality. Thanks to you, we’re excited to share our new community space that includes:

  • The first-of-its-kind Traffic Garden, a small-scale, European-style streetscape where people can practice riding bikes in a safe and comfortable setting;
  • The Fix-it Garage, a fully stocked new learning space where riders can stop and do their own quick fixes; and
  • The Ride Leader Welcome Pavilion, our new front welcoming space that offers plenty of seating, shade, water bottle fill-ups and more—all made possible through generous donations of the Cascade Ride Leader team.

The new features round out the final touches to the Cascade headquarters at the north end of Magnuson Park, where we moved in December 2014 after a year of renovations to one of the old naval base buildings. The idea to include all of the above features was born from the desire to get more people involved in bicycling through fun and innovative opportunities. 

After a successful year-long capital campaign to raise more than $1.9 million from our generous donors and community partners, along with much planning, patience and excitement, we’ve finally turned our dream to reality. Thanks to the success of the new space, our membership has grown, our classes are filled to capacity and our rides continue to sell out. And there’s so much more to come: school field trip groups will visit the Traffic Garden (our summer camp kids have already started using it!), bike maintenance classes will keep the Fix-it Garage buzzing and new Free Group Rides will depart from the Welcome Pavilion all year long. 

And we couldn’t have done it without you—this truly is YOUR Cascade Bicycling Center!

We hope you’ll join us for this momentous occasion to celebrate and give thanks to everyone who made it possible. See you there!

Unveiling Party for the new Cascade Bicycling Center
Saturday, Sept. 17
1-3 p.m.
7787 62nd Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115
 

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