Bike club leader pedaling away

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Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Bike club leader pedaling away</h1>
                <h2><p>Cascade Bicycle Club Exeuctive Director Chuck Ayers announced today that he is leaving, and a national search will look for a replacement. He says the club's membership recently surpassed 15,000 and its influence is growing, but it's "the right time" to move on.</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>Cascade Bicycle Club Exeuctive Director Chuck Ayers <a href="http://blog.cascade.org/2013/03/chuck-ayers-announces-resignation-from-cascade-bicycle-club/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">announced today</a> that he is leaving, and a national search will look for a replacement. He says the club's membership recently surpassed 15,000 and its influence is growing, but it's "the right time" to move on.Only in Seattle would that be real political news — OK, maybe in Portland, too. But remember that an attempt by the club's board to ease out Ayers a few years ago indeed led to an ouster:<a href="http://crosscut.com/2011/04/29/nonprofits-philanthropy/20869/Cascade-Bike-Club-enters-new-era-sparked-by-rider/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org"> a member-driven recall election that removed most of the board</a>. His message seems to aim at heading off any to-the-barricades reaction, writing, "Though this may be a surprise to you, I have been thinking about this transition for a while." We trust that's true: The club's emphasis under Ayers on <a href="http://Seattle news, Washington state news, Pacific Northwest news, Crosscut, Crosscut.com, Crosscut blog, cross cut, Crosscut Seattle, The Daily Troll, Seattle news today, Joe Copeland, Washington state politics, video,">all-around environmental and economic sustainability</a> is admirable.</p>
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Cascade Bicycle Club Exeuctive Director Chuck Ayers announced today that he is leaving, and a national search will look for a replacement. He says the club's membership recently surpassed 15,000 and its influence is growing, but it's "the right time" to move on.Only in Seattle would that be real political news — OK, maybe in Portland, too. But remember that an attempt by the club's board to ease out Ayers a few years ago indeed led to an ouster: a member-driven recall election that removed most of the board. His message seems to aim at heading off any to-the-barricades reaction, writing, "Though this may be a surprise to you, I have been thinking about this transition for a while." We trust that's true: The club's emphasis under Ayers on all-around environmental and economic sustainability is admirable.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi