BikeSummer Seattle 2004

One hundred days, 1,000 events, 100,000 participants, riding 1,000,000 miles!!

Celebrate the bicycle as an efficient, fun, and healthy
Promote the bicycle as an environmentally friendly way to get around.
Explore the city and the state by bicycle.
Connect with new people, new communities, and new ideas.
Envision and work toward a more bicycle-friendly world.

What:
Bikesummer is one hundred days of celebration and activism featuring bicycle, transportation, and community events starting with the Discovery Days on June 11. It’s politics, bike culture, rides, speakers, street theatre, art, classes, workshops, music, films, midnight rides and more. Make plans now to join in the velorution as we welcome bicyclists and transportation activists from around the city, state, and the world!

Events:
Check out the Bikesummer Calendar! You can add an event to the Bikesummer calendar at any time during the 100-day celebration. A print calendar will be published each month of the celebration. To be included in the June edition, your event must be submitted by May 1^st. To be included in the July edition, your event must be submitted by June 15^th. To be included in the August edition, your event must be submitted by July 15^th.

Why:
A bicycle is your first vehicle. Bicycling and transportation issues affect absolutely everyone. By hosting Bikesummer ’04 we hope to strengthen the city, state and global cycling community by creating environments for people to share information, discuss problems and solutions and make lasting friendships – all while celebrating the bicycle in all of its shapes, styles and attitudes.

We intent to build on the momentum and enthusiasm that originated in San Francesco in 1999 and flowed to Portland, Vancouver BC, Chicago, New York and now Seattle and Washington.

It’s all about better roads for cycling – a movement started over 100 years ago.

Vision Statement
Bikesummer 2004 celebrates all things bicycling; it’s a summer long feast of bike activism, bike rides – the whole bike culture. It’s an invitation to come to Washington to share experiences, learn and enjoy our urban and rural environments.

Bikesummer is a call to action to take the message of bicycling as transportation and recreation to the streets, and to show how our communities are better for it.

By hosting Bikesummer 2004 in Washington we plan to strengthen the state, and national community by creating an environment for people to share not only bike rides, but to discuss common problems, seek solutions and make lasting friendships all while celebrating the enormous variety of cultures that have evolved around the wonderful machine we call the bicycle.

We seek to build on previous Bikesummers, to keep the Velorution rolling locally, nationally and globally.