Summer BIKES Club Activities

There will be lots of BIKES Club rides and tours through the summer months. Check the Rides calendar, Ride Updates, and Overnight & Tours pages of our BIKES Club website.

Join us for our annual BIKES Club picnic on Sunday August 4th from 1 – 4 PM at Hauge Homestead Park in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Everett. More info later.

We are into the great bike riding seasons of late spring and early summer. Long days and warmer weather help make bike rides more enjoyable. An early morning bike ride on weekends when car traffic is sparse can be a special kind of ride. The cool early morning nip should warm up nicely by mid-morning. Rolling along with the low angle sun, long shadows and quiet roads can be a bit enchanting with the smells of breakfast in the air as the community wakes up and starts the day. Bacon and toast in particular seem to carry a long way. Try an experiment to trigger your primal hunter-gatherer instincts: go for an early morning bike ride on a weekend day before your normal breakfast time for an hour before returning home for your own breakfast. Does your sense of smell seem significantly stronger riding through the community?

Bike Index

Have you ever had a bike stolen? It is surely a disappointing, inconvenient, expensive and emotional experience. Choosing the right location and adequately locking your bike when parking it helps prevent theft. Getting you bike back will depend on you reporting the theft to police and alerting the community. Registering your bike(s) into the most widely used bike registry on the planet helps too. Got to https://BikeIndex.org to register your bike(s) for free.

BIKES Club Dues Increase

Annual BIKES Club dues will increase effective June 1^st to $25 for an individual or $35 for a family. The BIKES Club has not had a dues increase for several years while club operating costs have increased. Refer to the May Chainwheel Chatter newsletter for more information.

WSDOT Active Transportation Survey

WSDOT’s statewide Active Transportation Plan Update is under way Active transportation is about giving people safe options for getting from one place to another using active means of travel such as walking, biking and rolling.

The 2019 Active Transportation Plan will help guide and implement statewide investments and policies for increased access, safety and mobility. Your voice matters. Every comment and survey response will help shape the final recommendations for policy, funding priorities and projects. Your friends and neighbors listen to you. When you tell them they should get involved, it’s more powerful than when we ask. Taking the survey tells us what matters to you for walking and rolling more places, more safely, more conveniently in your community and state. Take the survey and encourage friends and family to do the same!

The English version of the survey can be found here: bit.ly/WSDOT-ATP2019-Engl 

The WSDOT Active Transportation survey will be open until June 30th.

Overnights and Tours 2019

A few rather optimistic ride leaders have used the gloom of winter to plan some awesome tours for this coming spring and summer. Check it out at Overnights and Tours 2019.

Ride With GPS

A new benefit for BIKES Club members, Ride With GPS offers members an on-line computer based tool that will allow bicyclists to plan, navigate and share bike routes. Route maps can be printed. Routes can also be downloaded onto your smart phone or smart navigation device for verbal and graphic turn by turn directions. A few bike routes have already been added to the library and many more will be added. Routes for the McClinchy Mile: Camano Climb Edition have been added as an Event.

For more info about Ride With GPS for the BIKES Club, check out the Ride With GPS info.