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# When bikes ruled Seattle
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/culture/2018/04/when-bikes-ruled-seattle/
- Published: 2018-04-16T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-19T09:22:00.000Z
- Author: Knute Berger
- Tags: Culture, Changing Region, history, Mossback, Mossback's Northwest, Multimedia, Transportation, Video, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-04-14 08:04, #Import 2025-05-09 14:42, #article

Miles of new bike paths, roving gangs of cyclists, bicycle polo at the University of Washington. There was a time when cyclists ruled the road in Seattle.

Knute takes us back to Puget Sound at the turn of the century to find out: Is the battle between cyclists and drivers even older than the car? Who's responsible for Seattle's early road network? And what's the deal with spandex bike wear?

Knute has written a lot on the subject. You can read more stories here:

[How bikes led Seattle's first roads renaissance](http://crosscut.com/2013/09/seattles-first-golden-age-bikes/?ref=cascadepbs.org)

[Meet Seattle's first bike vigilantes](http://crosscut.com/2013/09/4-culture-wheelmen-have-rights-bikes-p-2/?ref=cascadepbs.org)

[The car that broke the back of Seattle's bike craze](http://crosscut.com/2013/09/bike-paths-seattle-history/?ref=cascadepbs.org)

[Seattle was once a bicyclist's city -- and it could be again](http://crosscut.com/2015/09/seattle-was-once-a-bicyclists-city-and-it-could-be-again/?ref=cascadepbs.org)