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Photo Focus: An homage to tall bikes

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A Bike Wedding Parade
Gabe Tiller pulling his just-married friends in Southeast Portland.
(Photos © J. Maus)

Over the years, I’ve photographed many of Portland’s unique tall bikes and the wonderful people who ride them. I dove into the BikePortland photo archives and pulled out some of my favorites…

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Dingo the Clown racing in the backyard of the
former Alberta Clownhouse back in 2005.
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Shot at Bridge Pedal, this guy looks ready for a road race.
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Minis also make fun tall bikes.
This thing is built like a tank.
Yikes!
This couple got married on a tall-bike tandem at Sunday Parkways 2010…
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… and here’s the same couple one year before they were married!
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Having some fun outside a Bike Porn screening.
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The imitable Dutch.
Tall Bike exhibit
That’s four frames if you’re counting.
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Skye Blue of the Irondelles looking quite marvelous on the waterfront.
Albert Clown House
Rolling down Alberta Street.
Mult. County Bike Fair!
Joust!
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Gabe Tiller’s Captain America.
Last Thursday on Alberta
Looking slick and fast.
Family Bicycle Transportation Day - Oregon Manifest-12
The whimsical handiwork of Portlander Robert Stapleton puts a smile on everyone’s face.

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