PedalPalooza planner: 9 rides worth checking out (and one to blow off) for June 15-21
Posted by Michael Andersen (Contributor) on June 15th, 2014 at 10:42 am
What a weekend! Portland’s summer bike festival continues. Here are some of next week’s highlights. (And one lowlight.)
WILLAMETTE RIVER: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
Sunday June 15, noon. Two local nonprofits lead a tour of “our largest public space: our mighty Willamette River.” Bring a swimsuit.
RANG BARSE RIDE OF COLORS
Sunday June 15, noon-2:30 pm. Inspired by the Indian “Festival of Colors”, participants will pelt each other with colored powders. Tweet @brauhze for live ride details.
HOMEBREWS AND COMMUNITY GARDENS
Sunday June 15, 4pm-9pm. Bring your homebrew concoctions to drink and share in 4-5 different community gardens, followed by a BYO barbecue at the finish.
ET RIDE
Monday June 16, 7 pm. “The feds will chase the kids through the streets as the kids try to get E.T. home. Everyone will carry water pistols.”
PUB CRAWL IN SPANISH
Tuesday June 17, 5:30 pm. Habla Español? Quiere hablar Español? Este tour es para usted y otras hispanohablantes. (Hay un tour similar en jueves.)
BIKE CAMPING COOKOUT
Wednesday June 18, 6:30pm-9pm. Ever wished you could get the camp food without the camping? Of course you have. Bring a camp stove and nerd out over the best camp cooking techniques with Shawn Granton of the Urban Adventure League and other aficianados.
DR. THEO SEUSS GEISEL RIDE
Thursday June 19, 9:30 am-10 am. Local bike clowns Olive Rootbeer and Dingo lead a one-mile ride of Zaxes and Sneeches and Snoozlefadoozles to Cafe au Play for a Dr. Seuss-themed story time show. Bring $8 for balloons, entertainment and food.
PORTLAND’S BIKE HISTORY SCAVENGER HUNT
Thursday June 19, 5:30 pm. The folks who brought you Dreaming in Dutch create a scavenger hunt built around “great places in Portland’s bike history.”
BIKE PLAY 6: BIKE PLAY’S BIG ADVENTURE
Thursday, Friday and Saturday June 19-21, 6:30 pm. The Working Theater Collective’s latest one-of-a-kind rolling play is a riff on one of the greatest bicycle films of all time. “Be prepared for some james bond kinda stuff.”
FLAKE RIDE
Saturday, June 21, 6 pm. This ride meets “somehwere in the SE, or maybe NE?” unless for some reason nobody shows up. “Life gets busy, man.”
Watch out for the Festival of Colors powders if you have a camera. I have heard that the stuff can get inside of even weather sealed cameras & lenses. I think it was either Petalpixel or the Lensrentals.com blog that had a story about that last year. Great idea for a ride, just be careful with your gear….
RecommendedIt was probably Roger Cicala over at lensrentals. Love that guy.
RecommendedI am guessing that the high cost of pixels prevented this list from including one more ride and that we barely missed the cut. See you guys at the 5th annual Cully Crawl Monday at 6:30, a great chance to meet neighbors and check out some local businesses you may not have been to before in the Cully Neighborhood!
RecommendedDon’t feel bad, Foster got shafted too.
RecommendedGuys, you just needed to “grease the wheels”, if you know what I mean. All I can say was that $20 was well-spent! 😉
RecommendedUgh, I totally missed the Flake Ride. Just had a bunch of stuff going on.
RecommendedAnd to note about my Bike Camp Cookout event: The print calendar has the wrong address, due to a Google map error. The correct address for meetup is what’s online: 3011 N Lombard St (at Peninsular). Sorry about any confusion.
RecommendedThanks for the endorsement of the Rang Barse ride! We had about 30 riders, and everyone seemed to have a great time! Photos posted to the FB event for the ride.
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