Bikes to Rwanda, a local effort to supply Rwandan coffee farmers with reliable cargo bikes, has announced “Africa in a Cup,” a benefit bike ride happening Saturday (4/21). Check out the flyer:
The plan is to meet at Stumptown Coffee in downtown Portland (128 SW 3rd Ave) and ride to The Fresh Pot in North Portland. (4001 N Mississippi St.).
From there, the ride will venture up to the I-5 bridge and into Vancouver where members of the Vancouver Bike Club will meet the ride and host a benefit event at the River Maiden Cafe.
Sounds like a good ride for a good cause.
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Sounds cool! Is there anything about the time of the ride? It’s the same day as Earth Day.
Welcome to Vancouver!
This event is about a 15 minute non-technical street ride. With bike lanes or shared streets much of the way. There is one hill to the ‘Heights’.
Remember that you can also ride Trimet part of the way: #6 MLK bus (Downtown Vancouver) or MAX to Expo (then a 10 minute bike ride to Vancouver).
For those of you new to bicycling in Vancouver…feel free to make a full adventure of it…bring the kids and the wife…check out ‘the largest farmers’ market in the region (800 Esther St.; 9AM to 3PM); ride out to Frenchman’s Bar Park (40 minutes west of the 5 bridge); Hudson Bay Fort Vancouver and Pierson Airpark Museum, oldest airport in the west (10 minutes east of 5 Bridge); Kiggins Theatre kids matinees ($7 for 10 movies!); ride or lunch at the Waterfront trail, or a drink at the Salmon Creek Brew Pub (now served at the Clinton St. Theatre pub).
Feel free to be very careful crossing the I 5 bridge…. Sometimes the metal plates don’t come all the way down, which makes for a more harrowing crossing…
Last Tuesday early morning I had another experience with them…
Coffee Addict-
Here is the info I have on the ride to vancouver:
“People will be meeting up at the DT Stumptown at 3 pm and then on to the N. Fresh Pot at 4 pm. At 5 pm we’ll be at the bridge to had over the river. Nice easy paced ride too.”
See you guys there.
Todd, are you going to be around on Saturday? Any interest in meeting us at 5pm on the PDX side to guide us over?
Todd, Thanks for the invite! I’d love to ride up with the wife and kids, but we have already planned a ride with all of the in-laws in the Gorge today. Maybe this needs to be a more regular event? Maybe npGREENWAY can do one of our rides to Vancouver? We already had a participant from Vancouver on our last ride to Kelley Point Park…
hmmmm…. this could be fun… more cross border group rides….