🚨 Please note that BikePortland slows down during this time of year as I have family in town and just need a break! Please don't expect typical volume of news stories and content. I'll be back in regular form after the new year. Thanks. - Jonathan 🙏
From road racing to mountain biking and everything in between, browse the headlines below for coverage of Portland’s competitive racing scene.
It’s summer, the nights are beautiful, and you live in a house full of messengers with a porch and yard that looks out onto a main street with a 10-foot wide bike lane. What do you do? You throw a weekly cash sprint series and invite as many people as you can. That’s what denizens … Read more
(Photos: Mark Boling)
“I would much rather err on the side of safety. My priority is to keep folks and their families safe.”— Clint Culpepper, Portland Trophy Cup
(Please welcome new contributor Hannah Moraes! You might recall her post-race interviews from the Red R Crit last week.) A motorcycle rider on Mt. Tabor? During the weekly bike race? After a collision between a rider and skateboarder brought an abrupt end to the third week of the Mt. Tabor Race Series on June 16th, … Read more
(Photos from Saturday’s race. Top two by Greg Schmitt, bottom two by J. Maus/BikePortland)
Thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic the 2020 bike racing season was nearly wiped out completely. This season has gotten off to a very promising start with huge field sizes and lots of enthusiasm; but this morning we got some bad news. The Oregon Bicycle Racing Association has announced that the Portland Short Track Series will … Read more
