Weekend Guide and Open Thread

Pretty Dress Ride

Get dolled up for the pretty dress ride on Sunday!
(Photo © J. Maus)

We’re putting up the weekend guide up a little early this week to help you all make your plans.

Get the weekend started tonight with Clever Cycles’ Heels on Wheels party. Dress up as fancy as you like and come check out their new lines of stylish women’s clothing, with discounts.

The famous Human Powered Vehicle Challenge comes to Portland all weekend! Check out these specially engineered, pedal-powered contraptions on display and in speed and endurance challenges.

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If you aren’t at the speed event on Saturday, head for the hills on a “Bike Boulevard Boogie” with the Easy Riders and special guest expert Greg Raisman, or head over to Southeast to check out the Low Car Diet Clinic

On Sunday, get the season started with Carye Bye’s annual Pretty Dress Ride. Bring a picnic; or if it’s raining, bring cash for cake at Palio’s. Everyone is welcome; pretty dresses are required.

Let us know your plans, and how they pan out, in the comments below.

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buglas
buglas
15 years ago

If you’re going to be in the mid-valley on Sunday there is a ride to show support for the Albany to Corvallis bike path. Meet up at the Corvallis waterfront park about 11:30, roll out at noon. The destination is the Calipooia Brewery in Albany – around ten miles distance.

John Lascurettes
15 years ago

How about a shout out again to the Low-car Diet Clinic: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2488740

jeff
jeff
15 years ago

Mudslinger (and OBRA XC championship), Sunday, in Blodget. It will be muddy.

Mr DeJerk
15 years ago

MAYDAY!!
March and Rally for Workers’ and Immigrants Rights.
Come celebrate your rights at South Park Blocks and demand economic justice for all. If you ride bikes, I’ll tell you there why this is so relevant.
Events start at 1PM, we march at 5.

bike2market
15 years ago

bike2market bike ride
Saturday
May 2 2009
Portland, Oregon

group bike ride from SE Portland to the PSU Farmers Market

Meet outside Palio (1996 SE Ladd Ave) anytime between 9 AM and 9:30 AM. Ride starts at 9:30 AM

http://twitter.com/bike2market

Joe Rowe
Joe Rowe
15 years ago

The college boys don’t have a very easy to understand website regarding their Human Powered Vehicle weekend.

All i had to do was cut and paste special. Here is the schedule and map links.

Event Schedule

Friday May 1st, 2009
11:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Design Presentations and Safety Inspections
Maseeh College Engineering Building
Portland State University
1930 SW 4th Ave.
Portland, OR 97201

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Vehicle Display (all teams)
Intel/Gordon and Betty Moore Atrium
Maseeh College Engineering Building
Portland State University
1930 SW 4th Ave.
Portland, OR 97201

Saturday May 2nd, 2009
6:00 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. Sprint course parking lot open
Tektronix Bldg 38 parking lot
1420 S.W. Karl Braun Drive
Beaverton, OR 97077

8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Sprint Race
Terman Road
Tektronix (South Border)
Beaverton, OR 97077
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Utility team parking lot open
Tektronix, Bldg. 55 west parking lot
1420 S.W. Karl Braun Drive
Beaverton, OR 97077

2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Utility Race
Tektronix
1420 S.W. Karl Braun Drive
Beaverton, OR 97077

Sunday May 3rd, 2009
6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m. Endurance Team parking lot open
Tektronix, Southwest portion of Bldg. 39 Northwest parking lot
1420 S.W. Karl Braun Drive
Beaverton, OR 97077

8:30 p.m. – 12:00 p.m. Endurance Race
Tektronix
1420 S.W. Karl Braun Drive
Beaverton, OR 97077

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Awards Banquet
Tektronix
Building 38
1420 S.W. Karl Braun Drive
Beaverton, OR 97077

Locations:

Maseeh College Engineering Building Map:
http://tinyurl.com/pdxhpv

Tektronix Map:
http://tinyurl.com/pdxtek

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~asme/HPV/details.html

Borgbike
15 years ago

Northwest Solar Expo

Ok, this isn’t directly bike-related but I think it’s part of the big picture.

http://nwsolarexpo.com/

It’s held at the Portland Expo Center.

Go here to get a $2 off coupon:
http://www.solaroregon.org/events/northwest-solar-expo-2009

For some reason the schedule is not as clear as previous years. But the last two years I’ve gone there have been kid events, home owner trainings, and someone from the state of Oregon gave a fantastic lecture on peak oil and how we’re living it. It’s good stuff.

peejay
peejay
15 years ago

If some people want to sample some beer on a ride, follow beercentury on twitter. And get to Green Dragon at 11:30.

Borgbike
15 years ago

Correction: NW Solar Expo is at the convention center.

Cecil
15 years ago

Put in a wild, wet and windy 100 miles today- riding a two-wheeled lightning rod on Council Crest in an electrical storm was probably not the brightest thing I’ve done recently

meligrosa
15 years ago

good looking!!! dresses and bikes <3 on every boy and girl. sweet ;D

Brad Reber
Brad Reber
15 years ago

Had a great time on the Easy Rider Bike Boulevard Boogie. About 17 or so showed up. We had a mostly sunny ride and it didn’t start raining until we were locking up our bikes at the 5th Quadrant.

Huge thanks to Greg Raisman for taking the time out of his busy schedule to show us a bit of what goes into making Portland such a bikable city.

I posted my pics here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brad_reber/sets/72157617625223574/

loree
15 years ago

We at Sock Dreams were surprised and delighted to be paid a visit by the Pretty Dress Riders this afternoon!! Thanks so much for stopping by. Pretty knee high and over-the-knee socks are a great complement to a pretty dress. 😀

<3 ~ Sock Dreamers

buglas
buglas
15 years ago

The Corvallis to Albany ride rolled out with 150 people according to the guy with the clipboard alongside the path at the start.

Brad Reber
Brad Reber
15 years ago
Kevin Buchanan
15 years ago

Just wanted to say I’ve been loving reading your blog, even though I’m not in PDX. We (the both of us who run our local Fort Worth, Texas-based urbanism, transit, and cycling blog) are heading to Portland next week for a half-vaction/half-urbanism & transit research trip and we’re really looking forward to seeing the bike culture in your city.