Biking Uphill in the Rain

Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction The rise of an improbable bike culture in the Emerald City Seattle was recently named the best bike city in the United States by Bicycling magazine. How did this notoriously hilly and rainy city become so inviting to bicyclists? And what challenges lie ahead for Puget Sound bike advocates? Tom Fucoloro, a leading voice on bike issues in the region, blends his longtime reporting with new interviews and archival research to te