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Year: 2007

How was your weekend?

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Family ride Portland spring

Eleni (4) watches the
sunset from her trail-a-bike.

We had all sorts of weather this weekend; crisp breezes, warm sun, stormy skies, and even some torrential rain. I hope you got a chance to get some riding in.

On Saturday, messengers held some “Tests of Strength” and artist and Bike Haiku stationery maker Carye Bye did one of her famous museum-by-bike rides.

I explored Rocky Butte Nature Park for the first time. My girls and I had a great hike through meadows and mini-forests and I saw a few mountain bikers enjoying the trails.

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Stolen Novara Bonita

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Small women’s Novara Bonita mountain bike with road tires. Lime green and white paint with black fixtures. Disk breaks, toe clips and a black water bottle holder. There are small green flowers on the stem under the seat. 24 speed (i think)

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Stolen Mizutani Seraph Spree

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She is a vintage brown road bike, with a hard seat, black handle bar tape, no racks or fenders, 21 speed. I have no serial number, but a defining characteristic is a plate on the stem tube of a dog with it’s tongue out.

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PINK "love courier service" coming to Portland

If I told you about a collective of cyclists and artists that started a movement called PINK to spread love by delivering notes around the city while wearing pink jumpsuits and pedaling pink bicycles, you might think it’s a natural fit for Portland.

After all, this city has serious penchant for pink, bikes, and love.

Sprockettes at the Summit

The Sprockettes are all about
pink, bikes and love.

We’ve got our lovely, pink, mini-bike pedaling Sprockettes, we’ve got Team Veloshop, whose official motto is “Bring on the pink” (and they already wear pink jumpsuits!), we’ve got an ex-messenger framebuilder who builds pink bikes, we’ve got Shift, who promotes bike love events like their Bike Kiss-ins, and so on…

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Tour of Flanders, Portland-style

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Yesterday I received an anonymous email about a mysterious, “penniless, suffering, pirate ride” coming to Portland next week (4/7).

The flyer (below) proclaims it will be:

“a test of 18 (or so) nasty climbs of West Portland in honor of De Ronde Van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders).”

Sounds like a suffer-fest. Here’s the route, and you’ve got to love the flyer:

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