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Day: September 12, 2008

Weekend open thread: Racing or a ride in the park

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Park it at a park.
(Photo © J. Maus)

With the return of summer sun, you might as well go big this weekend.

For some, with a penchant for self-sacrifice, that will mean heading out to Bald Peak for the inaugural Pain on the Peak cyclocross race. For others, that might mean getting out and enjoying a local park.

If a park is more up your alley, check out the Hillsboro Tour de Parks, a family-friendly event that promises an “enjoyable and relaxing” ride through some “overlooked gems” of Hillsboro’s park system.

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Meet the Team Ride – Sorella Forte

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Just a reminder – this Sunday is the Sorella Forte “Meet the Team” ride:
WHEN: Sunday, Sept 14 @ 9am
WHERE: Kettleman’s Bakery 2235 SE 11th Avenue
Sorella Forte is an all-women’s club/team based out of Portland. We encourage any woman who has been considering joining a team (or looking to make a team change) to please join us on Sunday for a ride to meet a few of us and to ask questions about our club, etc. This will be an easy conversational-paced ride.
For more information on Sorella Forte, visit http://www.sorellaforte.com

Shiftnic!

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It’s a Shift picnic…

meet at
Laurelhurst Park, 3700 SE Ankeny St (picnic site A)
2:00pm – 5:00pm
bike to the park, bring some food to eat and share. we have capacity for 100 at picnic tables, and beer & wine are legal.
Fool, gently at gmail daht comm

Hillsboro Tour de Parks

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Meet at Bike-n-Hike, 156 SE 4th Ave, downtown Hillsboro

1:00pm – 3:00pm, meet early for tire pressure check, safety discussion, route maps, etc.
Go West, go way West!

Tour some of Hillsboro’s parks on your bike. Bring the whole family for an enjoyable, relaxing ride. We will explore overlooked gems of Hillsboro’s city park system while learning basic bicycle road safety.
Take the MAX to Hillsboro Central/SE 3rd TC MAX Station‎ – start location is 1/2 block north on 4th St.

Friends Of Tour De Parks , www.tourdeparks.com/

Summit will address transportation safety in Portland

PDOT Transportation Safety Summit

A workshop at last year’s safety
summit held in June.
(Photos © J. Maus)

The City of Portland Office of Transportation has just announced the agenda and details for their 2008 Transportation Safety Summit. The event is slated for October 6th in the Portland Building Auditorium (1120 SW 5th Ave).

The Summit is being organized by PDOT’s Community and School Traffic Safety Partnership (CSTSP in wonk-speak), a program created in 2003 that funds safety and infrastructures projects through traffic fine revenue.

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Microcosm Bike Move

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MICROCOSM BIKE MOVE

50th/Powell to SE 9th/Main , SE 50th Ave and Powell Blvd (near to this intersection, get in touch for exact location.)
12:00pm

Come celebrate moving Microcosm Publishing (www.microcosmpublishing.com) into its new store–by bike! Plenty of boxes to roll down the hill from storage around SE 50th/Powell down to SE 9th/Main.

Further shelving to be moved from SE 29th/Holgate (possibly handled in advance). Celebrate afterwards with food and drink at The Lucky Lab, a mere block from the new store! Props to Shawn Granton for setting us up with the new digs!

Joe Biel, joe at microcosmpublishing daht comm, www.microcosmpublishing.com, adam at microcosmpublishing daht comm, 858-337-2920

PDOT works to identify more bikeways in North Portland

Roger Geller presenting potential
new city bikeway designations
to an advisory committee
on Tuesday.
(Photo © J. Maus)

As part of an ongoing effort to update the Bicycle Master Plan, city bicycle coordinator Roger Geller (and his trusty associate Denver Igarta) recently completed a field work and bikeway identification and mapping exercise in North Portland.

Geller presented the results of that work to a meeting of the Portland Bicycle Advisory Committee last Tuesday.

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Portland band takes on West Coast tour by bike

Israel Nebeker and Ryan Dobrowski
(Image grabbed from BlindPilotMusic.com)

Blind Pilot is making a lot of noise in the music scene these days. The band, headed by Israel Nebeker (guitar/vocals) and Ryan Dobrowski (drums), has been heralded by the press (“I’m smitten” wrote a reviewer at the Willamette Week) and they nabbed an iTunes “Song of the Week” nod last month.

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