The Latest From The Saddle

• Read our winter gear guide for tips on how to stay warm, dry, safe, and happy during the winter cycling season.
• Rain hoods, pedal lights, cycling chaps, and waterproof socks: Cascade has you covered.

• Announcing Cascade Bicycle Club's 2025 Season Schedule.
• With new rides, STP 5-packs, early-bird discounts, and member incentives, resolving to bike more is easier than ever. 

• Whidbey Island offers abundant scenic bike routes, bountiful community farms, and a growing bike advocacy movement.
• We spent a weekend on Whidbey biking its rural roads and lodging at the Organic Farm School, which is reviving the art of sustainable community farming. 
• Book a farmstay, support BikeWhidbey’s advocacy, and learn about the effort to create a 50-mile bike trail.  
   

E-ballots will be delivered to active Cascade members December 1, 2024 and must be submitted by December 15, 2024. For 2025, we have nine seats up for election.

• Cascade supports the movement to get more families out of cars and onto electric cargo bikes. But not all households can afford to buy a Tern GSD.
• Enter Wombi, a new e-bike subscription service operated by one of Seattle’s cargo biking pioneers.

• Cascade Ride Leader Steve Hulsman died after being struck by an SUV in West Seattle on Dec. 21.
• His widow, Rita Hulsman, urges Seattle residents to vote YES on the Keep Seattle Moving levy to prevent future deaths.

• 12 days, 650 miles, one flat, one crash, and one unplanned rest day = a bucket-list bikepacking adventure.
• Shannon Mangan planned and prepared to ride across Washington solo, but long-distance bikepacking sometimes requires improvisation.

• Cascade's Communications Director celebrated her fifth wedding anniversary in the Netherlands with her spouse, where bicycling and transit are safe, celebrated, and reliable options to get around
• At a time when the U.S. is experiencing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation, Sara Kiesler ponders whether our car habits are to blame.

• Two hundred people including 52 speakers attended our 2024 Bike, Walk, Roll Summit in Tacoma from Sept. 11-13.
• From cycle highways to complete streets to community bike rides, the Summit was a forum for sharing best practices and collaborating for solutions.
• Learn more and check out our photos from the event and our evening rides around Tacoma.

• We biked Tacoma’s Prairie Line, Water Flume Line, and Scott Pierson trails to highlight opportunities for creating an integrated Tacoma bike network.  
• Cascade organized the Tacoma ride and another in Shoreline at the Interurban Trail Gap to advance efforts by the Leafline Trails Coalition to connect the 900 miles of trails in King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish counties.

• Marlene Druker has made a habit of biking home from Vancouver after participating in RSVP.
• Get Marlene’s tips, maps, and links for planning your own RSVP+RT (Ride from Seattle to Vancouver and Party + Round Trip).

• Cascade has joined the coalition to Keep Seattle Moving, which seeks to win voter support for Proposition 1 and its $133.5 million in critical bike infrastructure funding.
• Keep Seattle Moving is the new name for the Seattle Transportation Levy that will appear as Proposition 1 on November ballots.
• Join us as we bike from downtown to the new MLK Jr. Way protected bike lanes to Columbia City to learn how Seattle Transportation Levy dollars create safer bike routes.  

• 1,600 people participated in our Ride from Seattle to Vancouver and Party supported by Western Washington Honda Dealers on Aug. 24 and 25.
• Saturday morning rains whetted our riders' appetites for the sunshine and parties that awaited in Bellingham and Vancouver.  

• I-2117 would put billions of investments in bicycle and pedestrian projects at risk in every corner of our state. 
• It would cut funding that makes bicycling and active transportation more accessible to kids.
• It would also mean more air pollution across our state and rollback programs that help make communities less vulnerable to wildfires.