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The ride began with a roll through downtown Hillsboro.Video report belowPhoto Gallery(Photos © J. Maus) With crowds much larger than organizers expected, the first annual Tour de Parks, held yesterday in Hillsboro, was a smashing success. My family and I made the trek out West (thanks to the MAX) for our first foray into the … Read more
Wyatt Baldwin.(Photo © J. Maus) Wyatt Baldwin, the web programmer who created the bicycle trip-planning tool byCycle.org, has been hired by Portland’s public transit operator TriMet. The announcement was made by TriMet communications director Carolyn Young during a presentation at the recent Pro Walk/Pro Bike conference in Seattle. Baldwin starts today and he told me … Read more
This month at The Office of Transportation’s Bicycle Brown Bag series is a discussion on family biking. PDOT employee Timo Forsberg will host a panel of biking parents for what is sure to be an interesting chat. Here is more information: Parents on Bikes: Bike & Walk to School Day all year-round! School. Work. Shopping. … Read more
Park it at a park.(Photo © J. Maus) With the return of summer sun, you might as well go big this weekend. For some, with a penchant for self-sacrifice, that will mean heading out to Bald Peak for the inaugural Pain on the Peak cyclocross race. For others, that might mean getting out and enjoying … Read more
Just a reminder – this Sunday is the Sorella Forte “Meet the Team” ride: WHEN: Sunday, Sept 14 @ 9am WHERE: Kettleman’s Bakery 2235 SE 11th Avenue Sorella Forte is an all-women’s club/team based out of Portland. We encourage any woman who has been considering joining a team (or looking to make a team change) … Read more
It’s a Shift picnic… meet at Laurelhurst Park, 3700 SE Ankeny St (picnic site A) 2:00pm – 5:00pm bike to the park, bring some food to eat and share. we have capacity for 100 at picnic tables, and beer & wine are legal. Fool, gently at gmail daht comm
Meet at Bike-n-Hike, 156 SE 4th Ave, downtown Hillsboro 1:00pm – 3:00pm, meet early for tire pressure check, safety discussion, route maps, etc. Go West, go way West! Tour some of Hillsboro’s parks on your bike. Bring the whole family for an enjoyable, relaxing ride. We will explore overlooked gems of Hillsboro’s city park system … Read more
A workshop at last year’s safety summit held in June.(Photos © J. Maus) The City of Portland Office of Transportation has just announced the agenda and details for their 2008 Transportation Safety Summit. The event is slated for October 6th in the Portland Building Auditorium (1120 SW 5th Ave). The Summit is being organized by … Read more
MICROCOSM BIKE MOVE 50th/Powell to SE 9th/Main , SE 50th Ave and Powell Blvd (near to this intersection, get in touch for exact location.) 12:00pm Come celebrate moving Microcosm Publishing (www.microcosmpublishing.com) into its new store–by bike! Plenty of boxes to roll down the hill from storage around SE 50th/Powell down to SE 9th/Main. Further shelving … Read more
Roger Geller presenting potential new city bikeway designations to an advisory committee on Tuesday.(Photo © J. Maus) As part of an ongoing effort to update the Bicycle Master Plan, city bicycle coordinator Roger Geller (and his trusty associate Denver Igarta) recently completed a field work and bikeway identification and mapping exercise in North Portland. Geller … Read more
Israel Nebeker and Ryan Dobrowski(Image grabbed from BlindPilotMusic.com) Blind Pilot is making a lot of noise in the music scene these days. The band, headed by Israel Nebeker (guitar/vocals) and Ryan Dobrowski (drums), has been heralded by the press (“I’m smitten” wrote a reviewer at the Willamette Week) and they nabbed an iTunes “Song of … Read more
Event Website HERE Location: United Bicycle Institute 401 Williamson Way in Ashland, OR