Our Weekend Event Guide is back, just in time to help plan your weekend of bike fun. Take a gander at all the fantastic events listed below.
Saturday, July 31st
Gourmet Century
This is Portland-based Chris King Precision Components’ signature event. With McMinnville as a base, riders enjoy a metric century and and an absolutely excellent feast all along the way. “The route is a worthy road course interrupted with just enough fun and epicurean interest to keep you moving ahead…” Read more at the event website.
Tour de Tillamook (All weekend)
Two days of mountain biking and camping in the Tillamook State Forest. What’s not to love? Hosted by the Northwest Trail Alliance, this family-oriented weekend event features guided mountain bike rides, kids skills clinics, food, trail rides, demo bikes, and more. Check out the website for more info.
Bike MS: Explore Oregon (All weekend)
This fully supported, two day fundraising ride features one day in the Willamette Valley followed by a ride through the Historic Columbia River Highway. More info at BikeMSOregon.com.
3:00 pm: Bike to Skate: Birthday Edition
Meet at Peace Memorial Park (above Eastbank Esplanade) and ride to Oaks Park for some good, old-fashioned roller skating. Details here.
8:00 pm: Italian Ice Social Ride
Meet at Food Fight! (SE 12th and Stark) for a ride to Oregon Ice Works, an ice cream cart (with vegan options I’m told) in Sellwood. More info.
Dusk: Bike-In Movie Night/Portland Zine Symposium
This is a fundraiser for next month’s 10 annual Portland Zine Symposium. WTFBikes (SE 11th and Clay) is hosting this screening of Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and the evening will also feature the 11th edition of “Pedal Power” a local zine by Stumptown Underground dedicated to all things bike. More info here.
Sunday, August 1st
Vancouver Courthouse Crit
This OBRA-sanctioned race is held just a few minutes north of Portland in Vancouver, Washington. Racing starts and 10:30 am and features a tandem and a “Kiddie Crit.” Benefits the Washington School for the Blind Foundation. More info here.
8:45 am: PDX Bridges
It is Portland Bridge Fest after all, so what better time to ride to all ten Portland bridges and learn about their history and other interesting factoids? Free and meets at a coffee place in North Portland. Details here.
10:00 am: Bike Tour of Community Gardens
Alberta Coop hosts this biking tour of gardens in Northeast Portland. Get an up-close look at cooperative gardening endeavors. Lunch break in Fernhill Park. More details here.
11:59 pm: College Radio Ride & Dance Party
KPSU is leading this ride which takes off from the final PDXPOPNOW! event. Dancing and good times are expected outcomes. More details here.
Tour de Cure, a fundraiser for American Diabetes Association, is also on Saturday. Details through the Diabetes.org website.
Tour de Cure on Saturday from Hillsboro Stadium. 5 distances (10,27,43,65,100) benefiting the American Diabetes Association.
http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR/TourdeCure/OregonArea?pg=entry&fr_id=7041
FYI: The Gourmet Century website says that registration for the event ended July 28. 🙁 Wish I’d known this was coming up in time to register!
There’s always next year, I guess.
Yep, Tour de Cure. Please oh please let the 77 degree forecast hold.
@Kt: the site says that pre-registration is closed, but that they will accept walk-up registration at 7:30AM. Pricing, however, is notably absent from any of the materials. Anyone have a clue about the price?
The Camas criterium is on Saturday as well, in downtown Camas.
I’ll be master of ceremonies, speaking and riding Tour De Cure this Saturday. Enjoy all the great rides- and pedal fast on the Gourmet rideso you can eat without guilt!
@Wayne– the same page that tells me registration is closed says that a single rider is $145, dinner only is $40.
Soooo….. I guess that’s actually not bad when you look at all the food and what-not you get.
Technically not the “weekend”, but the final Short-track XC race is Monday evening August 2 at PIR:
http://www.portlandracing.com
The Finale features a crazy, wacky Relay race at the end that makes the entire evening.
Bike Beaverton is Sunday, August 1st, 1:00pm at Beaverton City Park (SW 5th and Hall Blvd). A family-friendly community ride with three routes through Beaverton neighborhoods and a bicycle safety rodeo for the kids. Presented by the Beaverton Bicycle Advisory Committee.
Also, this Sunday is the City Repair Bike Move. Noon at St Francis Church, 1131 SE Oak