[Welcome to your daily Pedalpalooza rundown. We’ll post each day’s events and rides here, so you can plan, email them to your friends, etc… See all our Pedalpalooza coverage here and follow the latest updates on Twitter. Click ride title for full details… have fun out there!] 9:45am – 5:45am: Midweek Ride to the Gorge … Read more
Streets filled with bikes: a commonsight during Pedalpalooza!(Photo © J. Maus) What an amazing week! Portland bike funnists have been outdoing themselves this year, with the biggest Pedalpalooza ever (over 200 events total!) Team BikePortland has been scrambling trying to cover all the events we can (is this really our job or is it a … Read more
After the brazen bareness of last night’s naked ride, a handful of dreamy romantics spent some wholesome quality time this afternoon reclining on the grass in the rose gardens of Ladd’s Addition, listening to, and giving, dramatic readings of the “good parts” of romance novels. These were, for reasons I never fully understood, interspersed with … Read more
[Welcome to your daily Pedalpalooza rundown. We’ll post each day’s events and rides here, so you can plan, email them to your friends, etc… See all our Pedalpalooza coverage here and follow the latest updates on Twitter. Click ride title for full details… have fun out there!] 7:00am – 9:00am: Coffee on Clay The city … Read more
[This Ridiculously Early Donut Ride reportage brought to you by dedicated morning person Susan Otcenas, via the Shift list. Check out Susan’s photos from the ride here.] My alarm woke me up at 2:30 a.m. Stumble out of bed, check the air temp (57 deg), pull on cycling clothing, stumble downstairs. Glad I packed my … Read more
Yes, there is non-Pedalpalooza related news in the world. Here’s a quick list of stories that caught our eye this week: – Among other bike-ish content in the Portland Mercury’s annual Bike Issue, Sarah Mirk exposes various pernicious Bike Myths. – 200 French prison inmates are participating in a character-building Tour de France of their … Read more
[The New Shanghai Bike-aneers Pirate Ride report was brought to you by the organizer, Bent Ryder, via the Shift list. Yarr!] The hardy Swashbikelers.(Photo: Bent Ryder) Avast ye lubbers!
[This report was brought to you by Hand-Free Derby organizer Chris “Fool” McCraw, via the Shift list.] this was a strange sort of ride—bring yourself on your bike to overlook park and then spend the rest of the evening going nowhere, or more precisely in a small circle. but the catch, of course, is that … Read more
[Welcome to your daily Pedalpalooza rundown. We’ll post each day’s events and rides here, so you can plan, email them to your friends, etc… See all our Pedalpalooza coverage here and follow the latest updates on Twitter. Click ride title for full details… have fun out there!] 4:30am: The Ridiculously Early Donut Ride That’s right, … Read more
[Welcome to your daily Pedalpalooza rundown. We’ll post each day’s events and rides here, so you can plan, email them to your friends, etc… See all our Pedalpalooza coverage here and follow the latest updates on Twitter. Click ride title for full details… have fun out there!] 9:30am: Lents Bicycle Boulevard Ride Wonk out about … Read more
What more wholesome, charming sight to greet you bombing down Glisan on a warm, overcast day than 50 or so ebullient naked people on bikes? That’s what happened to me and a friend today. I threw my bike on the grass and pulled out my camera as people rode by cheering and urging us to … Read more
Eddie Skaug was a beginnerat last year’s clinic;this year he rode with only a few wobbles.(Photos © Elly Blue) On the waterfront tonight, in a light drizzle, you could see a dozen people at a time mounted atop unicycles, in various stages between scooting around expertly and clinging to the railing for dear life. Unicycling … Read more