home
 

Home | Forums | Close Calls | Photos | Stolen Bikes | Links | Jobs | About

Bike to Work events start tomorrow

Posted by Jonathan Maus (Editor) on May 15th, 2007 at 12:51 pm

Bike to Work Day
PDOT’s Jeff Smith manned the
grill last year.
File photo: 5/17/06

Hold on to your helmets folks, tomorrow is the start of three days of Bike to Work events.

It all kicks off with PDOT’s famous (and historical) Bike to Work Day Breakfast in Pioneer Courthouse Square. It’ll be a big party, with tons of fellow commuters, scrambled eggs, and oh so much more.

You can join a guided ride into downtown from various points around the city. In addition to PDOT’s official rides, BikePortland readers have offered to lead a few rides of their own. Read the updates to this story for more details.

If you’re new to bike commuting, you’ll want to check out PDOT’s Bike Commuting Basics class. The class is part of their Portland By Cycle series running in conjunction with their ongoing SmartTrips Southeast program. Go here for all the details.

Vintage Bike to Work Day poster from 1979.
(Ex-Mayor Goldschmidt in red near cop.)
Courtesy of Jeff Smith/PDOT

Then, on Thursday (5/17) PDOT continues their Bicycle Brown Bag discussion series with a chat about how to bike to work in style. And, in honor of Pedalpalooza coming next month, they’ll offer tips on organizing a bike-fun event. Here are all the details.

The week ends with a morning bike commuter party at Oregon Park near the Lloyd Center. The folks over at the Lloyd Transportation Management Association (Lloyd TMA) always put on a good party.

They’ll have free breakfast, bike tune-ups, massages, lots of great door prizes, and you’ll be treated to short speeches from Transportation Commissioner Sam Adams and from that guy who started BikePortland.org. Should be fun. Here are the details:

    Lloyd TMA Bike to Work Celebration
    Friday 5/18
    7:30-9:00am
    Oregon Square (NE Holladay between 7th and 9th)

See you out there!

Email This Post Email This Post

The 2008 Cross Crusade Series

Possibly related posts

6 Responses to “Bike to Work events start tomorrow”

  1. David
    May 15th, 2007 14:47
    1

    When's the Walk-to-Work day?

  2. peder horner
    May 15th, 2007 15:41
    2

    Dang. Work starts at 0700. Somebody party for me!

  3. hungry
    May 15th, 2007 17:33
    3

    if if bike to school, does that count towards a free breakfast bite?

  4. Hubster
    May 15th, 2007 19:01
    4

    hungry: doesn't matter where or why, only that you're on a bike.

  5. Scott Mizée
    May 16th, 2007 04:26
    5

    Bike.Portland.org? Who started that? ...nver heard of it....

  6. Wyatt
    May 16th, 2007 07:29
    6

    Damn. I forgot about this and biked straight to work. Lucky for me, I work at Oregon Square, so I won't miss the main event =D

Leave a Reply

Comment moderation is enabled. Your comment may take some time to appear.