[Pedalpalooza runs from 6/8 – 6/24 and is organized by Shift to Bikes. View the full schedule here and get the latest ride reports here.]
Northeast steps up to the plate today with a bouquet of bike fun. The CCC is hosting two volunteer events, the Clownhouse is having their Bikini Bike Wash, and Tori will be rocking her Polo 101 class at Alberta Park.
Here’s a list of today’s action:
BIG BOTTOM DOUGHNUT RIDE
915 SE Hawthorne Blvd (Lucky Labrador Brew Pub)
8:30am
Show that even a WIDE-LOAD can ride a bike. Stuff your shorts with pillows, b-balls, or your own arse, and go for a ride. Don’t lighten-up, load-up. It’s bike fun afterall, and the MORE the bottom(s) on bikes, the MORE the mass, and the bolder & beautiful Portland will be. Also, there will be a spare tire toss.
Skara Brae, bigbutts@timeknock.org
VERTIGO // GORGE RIDE
NE 11th Ave & Holladay Street (LLoyd Center MAX)
10:45am, Call in sick for the whole day
Carfree in the Columbia River Gorge! Oregon’s best riding is all just a short train ride away – perfect for urbancyclists. Ride leaves from Gresham City Hall MAX station by 11:30. Bring a snack and lots of water. All day TriMet fare is $4. Vertigo is free.
Achtung Cyclist, bikemore@gmail.com, www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/HCRH/maps.shtml
SCRAP THURSDAY
1700 NE Alberta St, Portland OR 97211 (Community Cycling Center)
2pm, Every Thursday from 2 – 4pm
Come look through the Community Cycling Center’s scrap metal trailer and come away with armloads of bike parts and bikes for only $5 per load/frame!
Susha Pratt, 503-546-8864, recycling@communitycyclingcenter.org, www.communitycyclingcenter.org/
CLOWN HOUSE BIKINI BIKE WASH & HOT DICE TOURNEE
25th and Alberta (Clown House)
5pm, til dark
Clowns in swim drag wash your bike for a buck, and be prepared to get down & dirty, as you roll the dice for fabulous prizes. Hot Dice, also called ten thousand, will be played – Grand prize is a $50 gift certificate to Wild Abandon resaurant. 5pm til dark. Not a booze hound event.
Dingo Dizmal, (503)avid fat, fastclown@veryfast.biz, The Dingo Dizmal Digest
POLO 101
NE 22nd and Killingsworth (Alberta Park (east tennis court)
6:30pm, Every Thursday!
Calling the uninitiated, the intimidated and the brave of heart! The People’s Republic of Polo invites you to hit the courts for low-impact bike polo antics. Bring yourself– instruction, bikes, mallets, and snacks are provided.
Coach Bortman, 503-460-2374, graciewaters@yahoo.com
¡CICLISTAS HISPANOHABLANTES UNID@S!
5 SE Madison St (Eastbank Esplanade underneath Hawthorne Bridge (by the firehouse)
7pm
¿Hablás el español? ¡Vengas pa’ una vuelta por la ciudad! (un evento de causeit.org)
mamá joey, bikeforlife@causeit.org, causeit.org
WOMEN’S VOLUNTEER NIGHT AT THE COMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER
1700 NE Alberta St, Portland OR 97211 (Community Cycling Center)
7pm, Every Thursday from 7 – 9:30pm
On Women’s Volunteer Night, we open our shop for women to join our female staff in volunteering, learning more about bicycles, and making connections with other women interested in cycling.
Neal Armstrong, 503-546-8864, info@communitycyclingcenter.org, www.communitycyclingcenter.org/
BREAKING AWAY – MOVIE NIGHT @ FREE GEEK
1731 SE 10th, Portland, Oregon 97214 (Free Geek)
7:15pm, Every Third Thursday, ThThThTheater
Free Geek’s Thirsty Third Thursday Theater brings us the academy award winning “Breaking Away”. A 1979 film about local boys from Bloomington, Indiana who put together a bicycle racing team… The Cutters! It stars Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie and Paul Dooley. Also it is time for the revoluntion: Mary Tyler Marx, a spoof on the long running sitcom. And CNN’s coverage of Free Geek. W00t!
revphil, 503-232-9350, revphil@freegeek.org, Free Geek