Bike Culture

• All Hail the Black Market – Stevil Kinevil ruining bikes for everyone- and writing about it- sometimes including photographic evidence.
• Backyard Blam – Who knew Portland had fun on bikes?
• Bike Blog NYC – Michael Green- Seattle transplant, reporting on bike culture in NYC and the globe
• Bike Jerks – MPLS.  Bikes.  Clothing.  Awesome.
• Bicycle Film Festival – Bringing together film, art, and bikes and sharing it the world over
• Bottles And Chains
• Candy Cranks: Chicks that spin around the globe
• Cantgoslo: Fans of bikes and beer, who can’t rollerblade
• Crazy guy on a bike
• Cycle Chic from Copenhagen
• Ecovelo – Blog reporting on eco-based cycling products with good taste in the look and style of a bike.
• Filmed By Bike - A homegrown festival of film shorts taking place annually in Portland Oregon
• Le Pista Resistance: Promoting underground cycling culture in Sydney, Australia.
• Lucas Brunelle – you may be uncomfortable by some of what you watch. It’s incredible. I want to watch it on the IMAX theater.
• Momentum Magazine: If you are interested in advertising in the Seattle Edition of Momentum, contact me!
• Urban Velo – Bicycle Culture on the skids

Reviewed Products

• Republik (Six Pack Jeans reviewed)
• Fyxation (Session 700 tires reviewed)
• Chrome (Arnhem shoes reviewed)
• Schwalbe (Marathon Plus and Durano tires reviewed)

Fixed Gear

• Bootleg Session – Indianapolis, Indiana
• Fixed Gear Blog – Helsinki, Finland
• Fixed Gear Leeds – Leeds, England
• Hipster Nascar – Chicago, Illinois
• Locked Cog – Sacramento, California
• Pedal Consumption – Portland, Oregon
• Prolly is not Probably – New York, New York
• Takeover LA – Los Angeles, California
• The 5th Floor- London, UK
• Trackosaurus Rex – Orange County, California

Friends/Contributors

• C. Wright: Christauf is an incredible artist, and has done much of the illustrations used on the GMG webpage, as well as GMG clothing.
• Greg Mertzlufft: Greg is an IT Guru, a good guy, and helps with most everything that goes through GMG
• Koos Kleven: Koos does a lot of the web design, turning thoughts into something that flows on the internet

Sundries

• Dank Bags: Handmade in Seattle- messenger bags and other goodies
• Hub and Bespoke: A Seattle bicycle boutique of a different kind. Clothing and accessories for your ride. Bike your style.
• Pista Collective:  Apparel inspired by riding
• Share The Damn Road: Cycling jerseys that make a statement
• Wright Brothers Cyclery: One of my favorite shops in Seattle, they offer classes, and members can use the workspace in the back to repair their bikes.
• Cetma Cargo: Lane Kagay builds quality cargo racks and cargo bikes in Oregon. Built to work, built to last.
• Swift Industries: Jason and Martina offer luggage for cyclists that is made to order, and of the highest quality.

Seattle (things that shouldn’t be missed)

• King County Metro Complaint form: Bike friendly bus drivers? Dangerous bus drivers? Let them know.
• Seattle Bike Tours: A great resource if you are looking to go on a ride in and around Seattle
• Seattle Bicycle Codes: Know your rights and responsibilities in the Emerald City
• Seattle pothole reporting form: Dangerous road conditions? Call the “Pothole Rangers” and it should be fixed in 48 hours. Make sure you give accurate locations!
• Streetlight trouble report: When streetlights are out, report them here to be fixed by the city.
• Seattle Bicycle Program: Seattle wants to like bikes, they just don’t know how yet. Keep up with their plans, and give feedback. We ARE the bike community.

Seattle Bike Blogs: After a recent meet up, it became obvious that Seattle has a tremendous number of bike bloggers. Check them out:

• An Adventure Called Bicycling-
• Bike Hugger-
• Bike Intelligencer-
• Bike Juju - Tom in West Seattle and his global perspective on cycling
• Biking Bis- Bicycle Touring and more.
• Car Free Days- Reducing the dependency on the car, one day at a time.
• Cycling in Seattle-
• Kent’s Bike Blog- Various bicycle related thoughts from an Issaquah-based cyclist/mechanic.
• Pilderwasser- A day in the life of Mark Pilder. Messenger, artist, poet, madman.
• Publicola- “Seattle News Elixir”- featuring a bike writer
• Seattle Bike Blog- A daily, comprehensive look at bicycling in Seattle
• Seattle Likes Bikes: “Seattle’s home for real bicycle advocacy”
• Sweet Bike
• Totcycle- Family Biking
• Tubulocity- Bicycle culture for a tubular world.
• Zlog – Fixed gear bikes and culture

Advocacy

• Bicycle Alliance of Washington
• Bikewise
• Bikeworks
• Cascade Bicycle Club- A bike club that does a lot for local and statewide bicycle advocacy
• Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board- All bike planning for Seattle goes through the SBAB
• The Bikery
• Washington DOT bicycle page

Racing

• Emerald Sprints: Indoor Roller Racing- also available for private events
• MFG Cyclocross – Race promoters of cyclocross in the Seattle area
• Seattle Cyclocross – Race promoters of cyclocross in the Seattle area
• WSBA – Washington State Bicycle Association is the governing body of bicycle racing in Washington