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Traveling for the holidays? Here’s how to take your bike along

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Separated cycle track, Baltimore

Riding in other cities can be fun
and fascinating — like this ride in Baltimore.
(Photo © Elly Blue)

The holiday travel season is coming up. If you’re leaving Portland, maybe you’ve thought about bringing your bike along for the trip this time.

A bike doesn’t make sense for every trip or every destination. But if it does fit in with your plans, the experience of traveling with a bike comes highly recommended. A bike can give you independence, flexibility, adventure, and a surefire way to meet people wherever you go.

How you bring the bike, what kind of bike is best to bring, and how much it costs all depend on whether you’re flying or taking the train. Here’s the rundown:

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Cities for Cycling officially rolling with debut event, website

The new logo

Cities for Cycling, a new initiative to push bike planning innovation in America with roots in Portland, was officially launched at an event in Washington D.C. last night.

Streetsblog was at the event and reported this from New York City DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan:

“Some of the most celebrated and popular [bike] improvements are not even in the national guidelines,” Sadik-Khan explained, adding that C4C ultimately aims to help develop “a new MUTCD, designed for cities, not highways.”

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An ‘adventure cyclist’ does Portland

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Mr. Weir.
(Photo: Kat Marriner)

Renowned two-wheeled explorer, travel writer, bike advocate, speaker and radio commentator Willie Weir recently took an unorthodox adventure. The man who has pedaled the most exotic locales across the globe loaded up his bike, joined his trusty companion Kat Marriner, and spent a week (short by Willie’s standards) exploring the bikeways in and around Portland. They camped in vacant lots, crashed on stranger’s futons, and soaked up all that is bike in Portland.

The result is a 2,000 word feature article in the current issue of Adventure Cyclist Magazine where Willie shares his adventures — from camping on Sauvie Island to a Zoobomb — with a national audience.

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