Presented by Shift, Pedalpalooza is a bike celebration/event like no other. Over 200 events in 17 days (see full calendar here). Below you'll find ride reports, links to photos, videos, and more!
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Posted on June 19th, 2009 at 6:17 pm.
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Posted on June 19th, 2009 at 12:31 pm.
[This is part of our ongoing Pedalpalooza coverage. See all our reports and photos here.]
When Rev Phil (left) comes along, you never know what to expect.- Slideshow below/Gallery -(Photos © J. Maus)
Last night, a hearty group of Portland bike fun elders headed north to Vancouver to bid aloha and pay respects to our fine friend [...]
Posted on June 18th, 2009 at 5:15 pm.
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 at 11:43 am.
[This ride was part of Pedalpalooza. See more of our Pedalpalooza coverage here.]
Dedicated Gorge riders were rewarded with this spectacular scenery.(Photos by Dan Liu)
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 at 10:55 am.
[Thanks to event organizer Matt Picio of Cycle Wild for providing this recap via the Shift list.]
Last night, Tomas Quinones and I held Cycle Wild's 5th Bike Camping 101 class. We held this class at last year's Pedalpalooza in Colonel Summers Park, and we returned there for an encore presentation. In
2008, we had [...]
Posted on June 18th, 2009 at 10:39 am.
About 25 riders converged downtown over the lunch hour yesterday for a tour around some public works of art, led by Ben Foote of ON Gallery.
Many of the pieces were funded by the the state's 1% for Art rule, which requires publicly funded projects to spend 1% of their budget on public art. This includes [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2009 at 4:37 pm.
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Posted on June 17th, 2009 at 4:04 pm.
[Thanks to ride leader Jill for reporting on Monday's Dandy Warhols Ride, via the Shift list. See bottom of post for a video of the ride!]
It took an entire day to recover from the marathon Dandy Warhols ride. What was planned to be about a 2-hour event instead turned into about a 7-hour odyssey when [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2009 at 3:58 pm.
[This report provided by Pun-ishment ride leader Matt Picio, via the Shift list.]
About 40 people showed up last evening for the Pun-ishment ride, expecting games, prizes, and bad puns. They got the last one, and a promise of a ride to a secret mystery destination, but the ride ran
late and the mystery destination was [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2009 at 11:54 am.
[Thanks to BikePortland intern J.R. (Jonathan Reed) for reporting on last night's Remedial Ride. Apparently 80 people showed up -- twice last year's turn out!]
Frites from Potato Champion(Photo: Jonathan Reed)
Approximately 45 people on bikes gathered at Colonel Summers park at 7:00pm Tuesday for a Pedalpalooza event called the "Remedial Ride 2." Ride organizer Ben's description [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2009 at 11:23 am.
Clever Cycles owner Dean Mullin at the Tapas Ride last night.- Slideshow below/Photo gallery - (Photos © J. Maus)
Portland is a city known for many things; including food, fashion, beer, music, and of course, bikes. At last night's Tapas Ride, we did our part to cover three of those.
The ride was organized and led [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2009 at 11:04 am.
Last night in Overlook Park, about 16 men and women, wearing everything from short skirts to spandex, learned the rudiments of a newly emerging martial art form: Bikendo.
Our teacher was Nature Boy, a longtime practitioner of karate and tai chi. He had the idea to develop a specific self defense technique for people who [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2009 at 9:55 am.
About 40 people showed up for the Benson Bubbler ride yesterday. (For those of you not from Portland, Benson Bubblers are the name given to our iconic drinking fountains).
We met at SW 5th and Washington, site of the first bubbler, installed in 1912 (and still looking great). Our ride leader Lily brought along [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2009 at 9:14 am.
Full report on this ride by Deacon Amos Hunter at BikeTemple.org. Slideshow below (for captions, browse the album in the photo gallery):
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Posted on June 16th, 2009 at 5:15 pm.
[Welcome to your daily Pedalpalooza rundown. We'll post each day's events and rides here, so you can plan, email them to your friends, etc...
See all our Pedalpalooza coverage here and follow the latest updates on Twitter.
Click ride title for full details... have fun out there!]
9:45am – 5:45am: Midweek Ride to the Gorge
Take the [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2009 at 4:05 pm.
Streets filled with bikes: a commonsight during Pedalpalooza!(Photo © J. Maus)
What an amazing week! Portland bike funnists have been outdoing themselves this year, with the biggest Pedalpalooza ever (over 200 events total!)
Team BikePortland has been scrambling trying to cover all the events we can (is this really our job or is it a dream?) -- [...]
Posted on June 15th, 2009 at 8:19 pm.
After the brazen bareness of last night's naked ride, a handful of dreamy romantics spent some wholesome quality time this afternoon reclining on the grass in the rose gardens of Ladd's Addition, listening to, and giving, dramatic readings of the "good parts" of romance novels. These were, for reasons I never fully understood, interspersed with [...]
Posted on June 15th, 2009 at 5:15 pm.
[Welcome to your daily Pedalpalooza rundown. We'll post each day's events and rides here, so you can plan, email them to your friends, etc...
See all our Pedalpalooza coverage here and follow the latest updates on Twitter.
Click ride title for full details... have fun out there!]
7:00am – 9:00am: Coffee on Clay
The city of Portland [...]
Posted on June 15th, 2009 at 3:38 pm.
Riders queue up at a stop lightduring the Anti-CRC ride Saturday.- Slideshow below/More photos -(Photos © J. Maus)
Over 80 people met on Saturday to ride in protest against the Columbia River Crossing project. The event was put together by Rising Tide Cascadia to coincide with Pedalpalooza and raise awareness of the negative impacts of [...]
Posted on June 15th, 2009 at 2:34 pm.
Racing was far from the onlyattraction at the Cirque du Cycling.(Photos © J. Maus)
Saturday's Cirque du Cycling event, held on N. Mississippi Avenue, managed to do something very special: It brought together just about every aspect of Portland's diverse culture of bike lovers. From kids (young and old!) to tall bike builders and everything [...]
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