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File photo: 4/21/07
Saturday was the big Earth Day Celebration at Woodlawn Park. Unfortunately it was also one of the coldest and wettest day we’ve had in a while.
But despite the dreary weather, scores of Portlanders showed up by bike. Among the many bikes in the parking corral, I saw several families with trailers (and one on a Bike Friday tandem). They were treated to a gutsy performance by the Sprockettes (more photos below), bike-powered smoothies, affordable helmets (include the “brain bucket”), and a host of fun bikes to demo in the Transportation Village.
The demo area featured lots of interesting bikes including; EcoSpeed equipped recumbents, hand-cycles, a beautiful Jorg & Olif dutch city bike, and of course a few bakfiets. The most interesting bike at the event was the Turf Trike (in photo). Described by its manufacturer as, “The world’s first cycle powered golf cart,” it was a blast to tool around on. It rode really smooth, had huge tires, and the front-end attachment offers a lot of utilitarian possibilities.
Another fun bike at the event was Gabe Amadeus’s “Bad America” tallbike. I took it for a spin and did some off-roading. Everything was great until I forgot how tall it was and fell over when I tried to stop. Lame.
Gabe has much more style on it than I do:
Still wet and bruised from my tallbike tumble, I knew the Sprockettes performance would make everything better. And I was right.
Despite persistent rain and slippery conditions, the ladies in pink showed their true colors and performed valiantly in front of an appreciative crowd.
For more photos of the Sprockettes at Earth Day, see my photo gallery.