Celebrating Bike Everywhere Month with Friends (and a Pizza Party)

The 2026 Bike Everywhere Month presented by Amazon, Microsoft and Lime is over but the fun continues on June 17 with an awards celebration and pizza party in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Let’s keep the good times rolling and raise a toast to your pedal power while enjoying free pizza at Stoup Brewing from 6-8:30 p.m. We’ll announce the winner of the Bike Everywhere Challenge, give out prizes and trophies and provide secure bike parking thanks to Cascade’s Bike Valet Program.

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This year’s Bike Everywhere Month brought new flair to the annual celebration of biking and its benefits. From improving mental and physical health to reducing carbon emissions and providing low-cost transportation, bikes are powerful and fun tools to improve lives and the planet!

Read on to learn about all the fun we had – and everything that riders like you accomplished last month.

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Logging Miles, Earning Prizes

One of the most exciting developments was the return of the Bike Everywhere Challenge and our launch of a new Challenge platform that offered new capabilities including weekly opportunities to win prizes like bike bags from our friends at Ortlieb and Swift Industries and water bottles from Miir.

The Challenge results are impressive: 1,089 people logged more than 204,019 miles in May. By not driving those miles, you prevented nearly 90 tons of CO2 from heating up the atmosphere and saved more than $167,200 on gas.

You also burned a collective 10.2 million calories. That’s like eating 130,769 chocolate chip cookies (coincidentally, the same number I plan to eat in June to make up for all that hard work)!

Town Hall Seattle Bike Month Bash

On May 6 (Bike to School Day) we held our second annual Bike Month Bash at Town Hall Seattle. We welcomed the Seattle Bike Blog and the Seattle Streets Alliance to the stage to discuss ways to support our combined efforts to create a more bikeable Seattle.

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Hats off to everyone who biked to Town Hall Seattle and used our free bike valet! We hope to make this an annual event every Bike Everywhere Month.

Bike Everywhere Day, May 13

When I looked at the forecast, my first thought was: “Of course it would rain on the day that we planned to hold one of the largest, region-wide bike festivities of the year.” Fortunately, the rain paused for morning commuters who turned out in droves.

Cascade staff handed out stickers, water bottles, hot coffee and donuts in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood and in Renton. Our friends at Kilroy Realty and Kuma Coffee, as well as our sponsors Lime and Ortlieb, joined the fun.

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Across the Puget Sound, more than 60 Celebration Stations hosted similar feel-good events for people riding to and from their destinations. It was incredible to see such a diverse array of smiling people come together on bikes to enjoy camaraderie and good vibes.

Bike Everywhere Luncheon, May 21

More than 530 guests convened for Cascade's largest yearly fundraiser, which raised more than $240,000 to support our bike education and after-school programming, our advocacy for more protected bike infrastructure, and other work to advance our Mission.

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We celebrated heroes of the bike movement, including Washington state Sen. Sharon Shewmake who accepted Cascade’s Community Spoke Award. During her seven years in the State Legislature, Shewmake has been a champion for bicycling.

We also spotlighted Cascade’s Pedaling Relief Project, which has transported more than 1.7 million pounds of food and goods by bicycle since 2020 on behalf of five food banks in Seattle and Bellevue. During the Luncheon we collected hundreds of pounds of food that our Pedaling Relief volunteers biked to Byrd Barr Place food bank.

Watch the entertaining and informative video we created about Pedaling Relief that we showed to the big audience at the Seattle Convention Center. I think you’ll enjoy the Mister Rogers theme.

Flying Wheels

On the final weekend of Bike Everywhere Month we held our annual Flying Wheels Summer Century, with three routes through the lovely Snoqualmie Valley. More than 1,300 people joined the ride.

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Thank you to everyone who participated! Revenues generated from our major rides like Flying Wheels support our Mission work. Check out our Flickr album.

Keep the Good Times Rolling

May is gone but the fun continues into June. I hope to see you on Wednesday, June 17, for our Bike Everywhere Challenge Awards Party at Stoup Brewing. Please RSVP so we know how much pizza to order.

No matter how you celebrated Bike Everywhere Month 2026, thank you for biking. There is so much more work to be done to create safe, equitable, and inclusive bicycling conditions for everyone in Washington state, but it’s important to recognize and celebrate the distance we’ve pedaled together. 

Thank you to our 2026 Bike Everywhere Month sponsors Amazon, Microsoft and Lime, as well as Sound Transit, Miir, Ortlieb and Swift Industries!