Friday (2/20)
(Photos © J. Maus)
Kidical Mass
Kids are traffic, too! Kidical Mass is a celebration of family bicycling. Training wheels, tagalongs, and trailers are all welcome on this easy-going, short, legal family ride. Be sure to bring lights and warm clothes. All families are encouraged to attend.
Sunnyside Environmental School — SE 34th and Taylor
Meet at 5:30, ride at 6:00
Contact: Angela Koch, angela at bta4bikes dot org
Dropout Ride
Freakbikes unite! Bring your tall, small, long, swing, or otherwise freaky bike. Don’t plan on sleeping.
Colonel Summers Park — SE 20th and Belmont 9:30pm
Saturday (2/21)
Get riding class
Gracie’s Wrench is here to help you get out on two wheels. Whether you’re headed for the bike path, a quick trip to the store or want to try commuting to work this clinic covers the basics for the novice rider. Learn basic riding skills, rules of the road, proper bike fit, what to wear and much more to gain the confidence to ride. Small workshop sizes ensure personalized lessons from an expert teacher. $15 per student. Handouts included.
Vanilla Bicycles Workshop, 717 SE 35th Ave
10:30am – 12:30pm
Contact: Tori Bortman, tori at gracieswrench dot com, 503-839-1880
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Mobile Dance Party
The SDU Crew Presents: Winter Formal
Get your ridiculous suits & dresses ready crushed velvet? plaid? sequins? pastels? denim? feathers? human hair? Join us to hit up the streets/drinking establishments creating impromptu dance parties with the mobile music machine
Meet at 8, ride at 8:30
Salmon Street Springs Fountain — SW Naito Pkwy and Salmon St
Sunday (2/22)
Velotine’s
Velotine’s is a celebration of bicycle love. Every weekend in February, PBOT’s and BTA’s Safer Routes to School program will be hosting a free bicycle maintenance event. Come and show your bike some love
This month’s event is at the Montavilla Community Center from 2:30-4:30.
Weekly events
Bike Polo (every Sunday)
It’s a Portland tradition. Bring your own beater bike (or ride one of their loaners) and learn bike polo from the Axles of Evil (some of the best polo players on the continent). Polo is also great for spectators, but be mindful of random profanity and other transgressions.
Winter hours are 1:00pm till dark at Alberta Park (NE 21st and Killingsworth)
Zoobomb (every Sunday)
Needs no introduction. Everyone welcome (mini bikes or not) See Zoobomb.net for more info.
9:00pm at the Zoobomb Pyle! (SW 10th Ave and Oak St)
Have fun out there…let us know what you get up to. And if I forgot anything please feel free to shamelessly promote in the comments.
I’m trying to do a Century ride on Saturday…
So, If you want to join a slow (round 12 mph), long bike ride on Saturday… Traveling from Beaverton, up and over the West Hills, through Portland, into Vancouver, down 205, out to the end of pavement on the Springwater Trail (and back), you’re invited!
I’m open to suggestions on the route through Portland, but we’ll need to cross the Interstate bridge, and ugh… the Glen Jackson. Frequent stops are acceptable, and I’m thinking of packing kinda light due to the forecasted good weather, so food stops will be made on the trip (and might involve a fast food joint or two [or a new seasons]).
Plan on meeting at 8:30am on Saturday at the Beaverton Transit Center, at the bike racks near the MAX tracks. We ride at 9am, and get back when we do. Can’t ride the full way, that’s Ok. Want to go fast and leave us behind, that’s Ok too.
Don’t forget to charge your camera batteries.
Bike farm has just started offering FREE commuting classes on a monthly basis. For more information, e-mail bikefarm@bikefarm.org!!!
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My sweetie and I are enjoying a morning and afternoon of errands and social calls, all done by bicycle. (Yippee!) Tomorrow, I’m doing a bakery ride with friends.
Started the weekend by swinging by the Showers Pass team kick-off party on my way home from work – saw quite a few people I knew there. Today (Saturday) I treated myself to some Pete’s Mountain repeats (ride to mountain, ride up, over and around mountain 5 times, ride home). 93+ miles, 7755 ft elevation gain. Fun times. Saw quite a few other cyclists in the area, taking advantage of good weather. Tomorrow will be a shorter, flatter ride with friends.
Rode both Saturday and Sunday, nothing extreme……… except for the driver of the Dodge Durango (OR Lic # YDS 956) who intentionally ran into me because he doesn’t believe bikes should be on HIS road. Moron alert!
Did a loop from inner SE up to Marine Drive and UofPortland yesterday. The wind was crazy!
Today, had two pals over and we had a pain-fest on the trainers while watching the last stage of the Tour of Calif.
Pulled it off… My First Century!
Joined by forums members, The Wumpus, and ZPL, I was able to battle the absolutly awful headwinds and made the loop that I had planned out for the trip.
Many Thanks go to ZPL and The Wumpus for the support!
Rubberside Down!
I didn’t actually get to ride this weekend, but my wife got me a Surly Crosscheck frame for my birthday (I guess she loves me a little bit.) As always it was a good weekend.