Kids and bikes: what's not to love?(Photos © J. Maus)

The Portland Wheelmen Touring Club has unveiled their schedule of family-friendly rides.
Ride organizer Ann Morrow says the club's Family Rides are designed especially for novice riders and/or families with children in bike trailers, on tag-alongs or on their own little bikes.
"It’s a great form of [...]

Marion Rice and daughter Gleneden

[This article was written by our Carfree Families columnist Marion Rice. For previous articles in this series, and for links to other articles and photos on family biking, check out the Carfree Families Page.]

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Belmont Bike Art Racks Potluck
Sunnyside Environmental School, SE 34th Ave and Salmon St
6:00pm - 8:00pm, 6:00-8:00 PM *or show up at 5:00 to volunteer*
The Belmont Bike Art project will install art bike racks in the on-street bike parking on Belmont. Come to a fun potluck and vote on the sunflower design that neighborhood artists will [...]

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It's like Critical Mass without the attitude or the age.
Portland's first Kidical Mass ride (an import from Eugene) was a big success tonight. About 40 people (and about half were little ones!) showed up for a short loop through downtown.
Ride organizer Angela Koch, the Safe Routes to Schools director [...]

Marion Rice and daughter Gleneden

[This article was written by our Carfree Families columnist Marion Rice. For previous articles in this series, and for links to other articles and photos on family biking, check out the Carfree Families Page.]

Some of you may wonder what this post has to do with family cycling, but I assure [...]

[Note: This article was written by Marion Rice. See the other articles in her Carfree Families column.]

When are kids ready to go it alone?(All photos © J. Maus)

My son is five (turning six in August) and has had his own "big boy bike" for about a year now. It mostly sits in [...]

[Please note that we've changed the name of our family biking column from "Carfree Families" to "Car-Less Families". This is the third article in the ongoing series written by Marion Rice. Read the others here.]

(Photos © J. Maus)

From my perspective, there is nothing better than tooling around town with my toddler on the [...]

[Note: This article was written by BikePortland.org's Carfree Families columnist Marion Rice.]

The Folz family (Allan, Carie and Cody) used their tandem/child-seat/trailer combo to participate in a bike move last summer. (All photos © J. Maus)

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Paul Adkins and family (notice the kids in the trailer!) in Eugene.(Photo courtesy Paul Adkins)

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Editor's note: I am excited to introduce Marion Rice (you might remember her from this story back in November). Marion is a mother of two (ages 5 and 2), is married to "the coolest guy ever who bikes as much as he can and is into Xtracycle dating". She's full of [...]

Lots of bikes at Sunnyside Environmental School in Southeast Portland.(Photos © J. Maus)

The Portland-based Bicycle Transportation Alliance hopes that friendly competition is what will get more Portland schoolkids walking and biking to school.
They've just opened registration for the first-ever Walk + Bike to School Challenge. The event, modeled after their highly successful Bike Commute [...]

(Photo: urbanMamas.com)

The popular local parenting blog, urbanMamas, is looking for tips on family-friendly bike set-ups.
They've published an email from one of their readers who writes:
"We have a 2 year old and a 7 year old and are wanting to get the family bike setup on a budget. We were thinking of looking on Craigslist [...]

Sacha White built this mixte as a birthday gift for his 8 year-old daughter.(Photos © J. Maus)

Everyone in the handmade bike industry must wonder where framebuilding phenom Sacha White gets the inspiration for his always impressive bicycles.
Judging from his famous tricycle that won Best of Show at the 2006 NAHBS (and is currently in [...]

Mini-vans are sooo last year.(Photo © Jonathan Maus)

Eleven Portland-area elementary schools have received grants from the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) to improve and sustain their Safe Routes to Schools programs.
The schools (see list below) have received a total of nearly $600,000 from the federally funded program that works to make it easier and safer [...]

Busy bike racks at Trillium School in North Portland.(Photos © Jonathan Maus)

Two recent experiences have left me thinking that more and more Portland families are ditching the family car and replacing it with the family bike.
Yesterday morning, when I pulled up to the bike parking area in front of my daughter's preschool, it [...]

Someone just sent me a link to a story in my old hometown newspaper, the Orange County Register.
The article, Giving up car revs family up, details the transformation that occurred in a family from Santa Ana, California when they ditched their ailing, money-pit of a car and started riding bikes instead.

The Cave Family running some [...]

Kurmaskie family just hours before take-off.(File photo)

Crazy bike adventures are nothing new to local author and nationally known speaker Joe Kurmaskie. The man who is known by his fans as the "Metal Cowboy" has biked all over the globe, but his current adventure might be his most daring yet.
This time he's taking the entire [...]

My wife Juli is currently looking to outfit herself with a family bike and the options are staggering.
She's been obsessed with looking at all the different bikes, child seats, trailers, trail-a-bikes, and other equipment. When you've got to run around town with two growing kids (one almost 2, the other 4 1/2) and whatever [...]

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The Portland Wheelmen Touring Club (PWTC) wants to encourage families and novice riders to explore local bike routes and get more comfortable on group rides.
They've teamed up with River City Bicycles to offer a series of short, slow-paced rides that are perfect for families and/or novice riders.
PWTC family ride coordinator Ann [...]

[Hold on Danica!]

After all the drama last week, I looked forward to a weekend of good, old-fashioned bike fun.
Taking advantage of a dry, non-freezing day, I finally got our new trail-a-bike (a Burley Piccolo) up and running. I did it "family limo" style with the trail-a-bike attached to a trailer. I was happy [...]