Month: June 2010

Ride Date – Monday, June 21, 2010
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Rock fans gathered for a tour of Dandy Warhols history this past Monday. Accompanied by Zia McCabe from the band and Dan Kaufman’s disco trailer, we rode to the beat of Dandy tunes from SE through NW, stopping to see where “Welcome to the Monkey House” was recorded, where the video for “Bohemian Like You” was filmed, and Slabtown to watch a few music videos.

Then we continued through downtown, visiting the Odditorium, a practice and recording space and headquarters of their own Beat the World Records label and ending the night at Dante’s.

After a “Bohemian Like You” karaoke contest (versions included jazz, William Shatner style, freestyle and overly energetic) with Zia as the judge and first prize going to an Australian on vacation in the US who caught the ride by pure luck and couldn’t wait to update his Facebook page for his friends down under, riders had the chance to sing more songs with the Karaoke from Hell band on the stage where the Dandys’ fantastic “Godless” video was filmed.

Zia offered trivia and behind-the-scenes stories at every step of the way, answering questions and providing insight into the Dandy Warhols’ world and adventures.

Thanks to Jeff B. for his organization skills.

More photos can be seen here.

Reporter Name – Ben Salzberg
Ride Date – Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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Once again, the theme was “tortillas hechos a mano” — only places with handmade tortillas.

About 40+ riders showed up in spite of my best attempts to confuse and obfuscate the route and start location.

We visited a brand new cart at Vancouver and Fremont, ¡Que Sabroso!, which was fanstastic and had the best tortillas hecho a mano of the night. Then on to old standby La Bonita on Alberta, then a long jaunt out to La Superior out on Lombard and Greeley. By that point we’d dropped to about 20 hardy taco fans.

Finally, we ended the night at ¿Por Que No? for some expensive but good margaritas and tacos.

Overall winner of the night: ¡Que Sabroso! But I’m psyched to try the mole at La Superior.

Reporter – Kristi Falkowski
Ride Date – Monday, June 21, 2010
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OMSI’s first Pedalpalooza ride was great fun! About 40 of us started at the Muddy Rudder for those 21+(and not on the clock). Rode down to Sellwood Park for some liquid nitrogen ice cream. Birding at Oaks Bottom led to sightings of kingfishers, osprey, vultures, great blue herons and one bald eagle. Next stop riders got see see a demonstration of a home made generator using recycled hard hard dive magnet powered bike light and received instructions to take home. On to OMSI where Mentos and Pepsi exploded into the sky! Followed by some audience participatory chemistry demos behind PEPCO, the OMSI workshop. Riders then got to play with a trebuchets and various brainteasers. 5 lucky riders answered some trivia from the ride and won a pair of tickets each to OMSI After Dark.

Look for us again next year, who knows what will be in store!

Reporter – Michelle Week
Ride Date – Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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Only 5 brave souls ventured to the pulp and paper land of Camas Tuesday.

The ride went off without a hitch and exposed some new riders to the old evergreen hwy. In Camas we stopped by Camas bikes (the only bike store in Camas), took a quick tour of the historic downtown area and stopped for coffee at piccolo paradisio before venturing back towards Portland. We also met up with one of the few bike commuters in Camas and learned a little bit about what it’s like to ride every day in a town of 17,000 where 80% of its residents drive single occupancy cars out of town to work.

We made great time and were headed back over I-205 forty minutes before “mocktails on the bridges” got set up. Only a slight disappointment given how gorgeously the weather held out for us.

Thanks for a great ride, thanks to BikePortland and the Mercury for publishing it, and hopefully the 5 person critical mass of Camas will expose more drivers to alternative transportation.