Ride Oregon: New website promotes bike tourism in Oregon

I’m wondering why the mountain bike routes don’t actually show a route on the map — just a ‘trailhead’.

I can haz dream job now? I would love to spend my days updating that site.

f5,

We used the Google mapping API to handle the mapping on the site, and unfortunately they don’t support mapping across offroad trails (yet).

We are looking into a couple of different ways to support this in the future, as we know it’s an important thing, but for now, we can only mark the trailheads.

Hi,

Super huge thanks to Jonathan for putting a spotlight on RideOregonRide.com. One correction, we do actually have dedicated funds for both site maintenance and content development, albeit we would like to augment what we have to continue enhancing the site and to create complementary programs such as developing a network of bike-friendly businesses across the state.

Cheers,
Kristin Dahl
Travel Oregon

See if you can get Google to let you guys do test runs of the bike/trike based Street View image capture system.

Look at http://www.hitsearchlimited.com/news/9992490/

The pictures I’ve seen only show a trike but if you can get the mapping data into the system with the cameras it should show up regardless.
Plus you’d have some good imagery to woo tourists with.

This is awesome, much cleaner and OR centric than anything like mapmyride. I will def put some of my favorite PDX rides and tours on it. Kudos.

This is a great way to promote biking Oregon, I love it.

Although I do have to point out that the guy on the homepage pic, is wearing Moots shorts, um couldn’t you get some shorts from one of the hundreds of local builders/shops in Oregon? Moots are made in Steamboat Springs, CO.

The other first impression, was when looking at services, I could sort by type of service, or by city or region, but not by both. So if I am visiting Portland and want to find a service I have to wade through all of the listings. It would be awesome to sort for Portland, then by shops, or restaurants, etc..or maybe I was doing it wrong?

Not trying to nit pick, just some suggestions. Overall, it is great, glad you all did it and can update it.

Fantastic! I was just about to start planning a multi-day trip, and this (and warmshowers.org) should help a lot.

psyclist,

I can’t comment on the gear in the photos, only to say that our “kit everyone at Substance in Rapha” sponsorship program fell through. Maybe somebody at Castelli can come through…

As far as services go, you can find by region city. If you dig into “Oregon by Bike” and then choose a region or city, rides, trails, events and services are sorted by location. For example:

http://rideoregonride.com/by-bike/region/portland-metro/

We’re happy you are enjoying the site. We look forward to improving the experience over the next several months so feedback is encouraged and appreciated.

d.

@psyclist

If anything, the MOOTS shorts image is the epitome image of what the site is all about: getting out-of-state bicyclists and tourists into the state via the vibrant Oregon bicycle industry!

Caption: Steamboat Springs, CO tourist is enjoying a break on the Crater Lake, OR trail.

Just saw this site and love it. Two friends and I decided this morning to use it to plan a multi-day bike trip to Oregon later this fall. We were talking about other states, but this site made us change our plans.

@psyclist

You should be able to sort for services in 1 of 2 ways:

1) Go to the listings of services at the bottom of any screen. Click on the type of service you’re looking for (say bike shops). On the listings page, you can click on city and it will re-order the listings by city from A-Z. Unfortunately Portland is in the middle so you have to scroll a bit.

2) Otherwise, go into Oregon By Bike and you’ll see a Cities drop down menu on the lower right. Select a city there. Once on the City detail page you can find all of the trails, routes, events, and all the services found in that city. I think this is the more efficient way unless you’re looking for something in Albany.

Have fun, and sorry about the Moot shorts. The pic is from Cycle Oregon in 2007. The next photo in the slide show shows a Sweetpea bike and a dress sold at Clever Cycles…so keep flipping!

Cheers,
Kristin, Travel Oregon

LOVE it! thank you thank you!

One suggestion: wine rides. My husband works for the Willamette Valley Wineries Assn and they get tons of requests for tasting-by-bike options. There are no good resources for that yet, so if it were added to this it would be huge. I’m sure Columbia, Umpqua and Rogue Valley wineries would agree.

You can definitely draw off-trail on a Google Map. You can draw poly-lines on a Google Map that go anywhere. We did this for the Portland Hikers field guide, using GPX tracks.

Wow, that’s a cool site. Looking forward to playing with it more!

Re: Wine rides: E#13: sometimes, you gotta organize ’em yourself. 🙂 I’ve got any number of routes in Yamhill that go past wineries, but if they’re not open, people won’t visit (a la JMaus’ unfortunate attempt to visit Champoeg winery).

Also, it’s oft-times difficult or unwanted to ride your skinny tire bike up some of the long gravel drives of the wineries, so that could be nixing some people’s plans to wine by bike.

hey! as much as i love bike tourism ads and all, they coulda used a homegrown bike logo on the shorts. not that i have anything against moots, but while you’re promoting oregon riding, may as well pop some homey’s brand on the shorts instead of a colorado one. easy photoshop project boys.