Frequent Rider Club

There’s never a better time to get your name in the frequent rider club and earn the respect and awe of fellow members along with your custom BIKES patch kit, 500- or 1,000-mile prize.     

Just remember the basic goal: Get out and ride!

New Members:

BIKES would like to Welcome the following New members;

Jack Giseburt

Bill Morrison

 Tom O'Hara

Kathy McDaniel

Tom O'Hara with wife, Debbie and daughters Elizabeth, Brenna,
Kelsie, Katie

   We hope to see you on a ride soon!

BIKES would like to Welcome the following Renewing members;

Rod McDonald

Warren Bare

Michael Dahlstrom

Bill Nugent

 Keith Ost

  We hope to see you on a ride soon!

Cascade Receives $76,000 grant from Group Health Community Foundation

Thanks to the Group Health Community Foundation, the Cascade Bicycle Club Education Foundation will be able to expand our summer camps program and our popular elementary-school Basics of Bicycling program with a $76,000 grant for 2006-2007.

Cascade’s Group Health Basics of Bicycling and Bicycle Camps for Kids teach kids to ride safely and develop lifelong skills – skills central to an active and healthy lifestyle.  In an expansion of our successful Seattle program, Education-Foundation-trained teachers will teach 12,400 third through fifth graders the Basics of Bicycling curriculum in two additional school districts, and 540 kids will attend summer camps during 2006-2007.  Currently we reach 7500 kids in Seattle.

We will purchase bicycles, trailers, helmets and educational materials and train physical education teachers to deliver the program in their physical education classes.  The schools and teachers are important partners who will donate all of the teacher time required for the program.  School equipment will be used in the summers for more intensive learning in day-camp settings.

The Basics of Bicycling program in Seattle is currently supported by a Group Health sponsorship and a Seattle-King County Public Health (Healthy STEPS) grant.

Looking to ride your bike, but the rides that are listed are too slow or too fast or
know of a special bike route you would like to share?

Maybe you would like to lead a ride,
but are not sure about what is involved.

An experienced BIKES Club ride leader will ride with you on your ride and show you what is needed to lead a successful bike ride.  We are currently looking for members that want to lead a leisurely paced ride.  That’s right.  There are plenty of nice riding days this fall and winter.  It’s a great way to meet other people and talk over lunch.  Days and weekends are available! And it’s free!

Contact me tcjkwise@verizon.net to pair you up with a ride leader.

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Advertise in the Newsletter!

Here is a new section of the newsletter to advertise something to sell or buy.  Based on monthly available space, the listing priority will be as follows;

Priority 1; Club member selling or buying a bicycle related item.

Priority 2;  An associate of a club member selling or buying a bicycle related item.

Send an email to the newsletter editor at

bikeseditor@gmail.com