Crooked River canyon just south of Lake Billy Chinook.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
Year: 2014
Cycle Oregon Day 4: Tygh Valley to Madras
After conquering the hardest climb in Cycle Oregon history, riders fell deeply in love with a water crew member assigned to spray us at the top.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
Guest article: From Portland to Timberline Lodge via transit and two wheels
Starting at Laura’s home in NW Portland, Laura (left) and Ellen excited to depart on their journey.
(Photos courtesy Jen Sotolongo)
(Photos courtesy Jen Sotolongo)
[This story was written by Jen Sotolongo, a Clackamas County tourism development specialist. It first appeared in the Clackamas County Bicycle Tourism Newsletter and is being used with her permission.]
With new leadership curriculum, CCC thinks broader about its community work
North Portland organizer Jason Washington and
Outgoing Community Cycling Center Systems Builder Ilaoa
(Photo: Melinda Musser/CCC)
Outgoing Community Cycling Center Systems Builder Ilaoa
(Photo: Melinda Musser/CCC)
After two years of operating a satellite bike repair shed in North Portland’s public mixed-income New Columbia community, the Community Cycling Center is deepening its community involvement.
The nonprofit bike shop and biking-for-everyone advocacy group is combining bike events and education with a rising educational philosophy known as “Thrive” in an effort to help residents change their city for the better.
“A lot of the time organizations go to a community and they don’t really try to help, but you give them what you think they need,” said Sheena Ilaoa, an educator who just finished a summer designing the new curriculum for the CCC. “What we’re trying to give them is tools.”
Cycle Oregon Day 2 – Glenwood to Dufur
Sunrise on Mt. Adams, as seen from the door of my tent pitched on the football field of Glenwood High School.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
The Monday Roundup: The homes Portlanders want, the rollin’ coal ‘movement’ & more
An American dream for one in five.
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)
With Jonathan exploring the state on Cycle Oregon and me in Pittsburgh for my other gig, this will be an unusual week here on BikePortland: We’ve been socking away enough to have one or two posts each day this week. And though we’ve got some great stories lined up, barring major events we won’t be posting breaking news. We’ll both be checking in on the site regularly, but this may also slow down comment moderation — our apologies.
But without further ado, here’s a particularly good crop of bike links from around the world that caught our eyes this week:
Housing preference: Even in a fantasy world where cost were no issue, one in five Portland-area residents would still prefer an apartment, condo or duplex. About one in four dream of life in a “rural setting.”
Cycle Oregon Day 1 – The Dalles to Glenwood
Leaving The Dalles at sunrise.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
Mt. Adams was never too far from view today
The Dalles welcomes Cycle Oregon on eve of week-long ride
“The Floozies” — The Dalles official greeters.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
Comment of the Week: Making Beaverton the country’s #1 biking suburb
Can you see the potential? No, seriously.
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)
One of the frustrating facts of life at BikePortland is that we’ve never had time to cover the big Clark and Washington County suburbs nearly as much as we’d like. But if you bike in Washington County and haven’t followed the comments beneath this week’s Washington County post, you’ve been missing out.
Dispatch from a crosswalk enforcement action on NE Killingsworth
PBOT’s Sharon White and Leah Treat acted as decoys for a police action on NE Killingsworth this morning.
(Photos J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos J. Maus/BikePortland)
Going east (again) for Cycle Oregon
This year’s ride poster.
Something about eastern Oregon keeps calling me back.
In the past six months I’ve made three trips east of the Cascades and tomorrow I’ll shove off for yet another one: the Cycle Oregon Week Ride.
The first two trips I took to the place known as “Oregon’s dry side” were for work: a reporting/riding excursion in The Dalles in March and a trip to Treo Bike Ranch in July. Through my bike adventures and people I met along the way, I’ve learned that the towns and roads in this region have so much to offer I wanted to share them with my family. So, over the long long Labor Day weekend I packed up our mini-van and took my wife Juli and three kids on a camping/road trip. We drove out to the Gorge, stopped in The Dalles, then went south into Heppner, the John Day River Valley, and then looped back up through Fossil, Maupin, Dufur, and then back to the Gorge. It was fantastic.