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Bike for Pie Painting 2008 by Peggy Brunton

Bike for Pie 2008 painted by Peggy Brunton

It's Bike for Pie Time!!!

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New Cell Phone Law in effect July 1!

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Car-Less Sunday Events for Bainbridge!

Imagine if the whole island left all cars in the driveway one Sunday a month - wouldn't that be something? more...

Bikes Ride FREE on Alki Water Taxi

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Come Ride the 6th Annual Bike for Pie!

Ride with squeaky wheels on Sunday, August 17 and eat all the pie you can. For free. How cool is that? Meet at the Marge Williams Center for Non-Profits (where we hold our monthly meetings across from Winslow Green) at 10:00 a.m. Ride with us to Fort Ward Park - a guided 6-mile ride will be led by Dana Berg, but you can start anywhere as long as you show up on a bike wearing a helmet!

We will be selling incredibly cool t-shirts in an attempt to fund our bicycle support activities. On-the-spot donations are welcome too. The beautiful painting is by the extraordinary, beloved bicyclist/artist Peggy Brunton. All pies are donated by squeaky wheels and their pie-baking friends. We always need volunteers to:

help with setup in the park at 9 AM and transporting pies from the Marge Williams Center at 9:30 AM.

help serve pies and sell t-shirts.

make more pies, either berry or savory delivered to the Marge Center by 9:30 AM.

If you can help or have further questions, email Linda Meier: lindameier2000@yahoo.com or call Chuck Beek at 780-7869. We hope to see you out there on the road!!

No More Handheld Cell Phones!!

A new Washington state law, effective July 1, 2008, makes operating a motor vehicle while using a hand held cell phone or text messaging illegal. squeaky wheels worked hard with the Bainbridge Island Police to publicize this new law through creation and distribution of flyers at the ferry terminal and in the local newspaper and posters on the ferries.

Car-Less Sunday Events for Bainbridge

Working on with Grace Church on Day Road, Demi Allen has created Car-Less events for Sundays on Bainbridge throughout the summer. They "schedule Car-Less Sunday events for the last Sunday of each month during spring/summer (with June 1 standing in for the last Sunday in May), starting April 27. They encourage people to find ways other than cars to come to church, with biking being the preferred choice. They've reached out to other churches this year to try to make more of an impact and increase visibility."

Among other benefits, these events put more bikes on the road on Sunday, serving as another reminder that there's more than one way to get around. Grace Church started with churches, and hopes to expand from there. For more information, contact Demi Allen - allendATzgi.com.

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

The crossing time between Pier 55 and Seacrest 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. )

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.

According to Metropolitan King County Councilmember Dow Constantine, “The Water Taxi will soon expand to year-round service as the newly-formed King County Ferry District assumes operation of this successful foot ferry route.”

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. They have rides and events every month. 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 W ashington Coast, Olympic Peninsula, Vancouver Island, Yakima Wine Country or Mount Rainier National Park.

Bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets - Christopher Morley

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