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Presented by Shift, Pedalpalooza is a bike celebration/event like no other. Over 200 events in 17 days (see full calendar here). Below you’ll find ride reports, links to photos, videos, and more!
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[Thanks to event organizer Matt Picio of Cycle Wild for providing this recap via the Shift list.] Last night, Tomas Quinones and I held Cycle Wild’s 5th Bike Camping 101 class. We held this class at last year’s Pedalpalooza in Colonel Summers Park, and we returned there for an encore presentation. In 2008, we had … Read more
About 25 riders converged downtown over the lunch hour yesterday for a tour around some public works of art, led by Ben Foote of ON Gallery. Many of the pieces were funded by the the state’s 1% for Art rule, which requires publicly funded projects to spend 1% of their budget on public art. This … 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!]
[Thanks to ride leader Jill for reporting on Monday’s Dandy Warhols Ride, via the Shift list. See bottom of post for a video of the ride!] It took an entire day to recover from the marathon Dandy Warhols ride. What was planned to be about a 2-hour event instead turned into about a 7-hour odyssey … Read more
[This report provided by Pun-ishment ride leader Matt Picio, via the Shift list.] About 40 people showed up last evening for the Pun-ishment ride, expecting games, prizes, and bad puns. They got the last one, and a promise of a ride to a secret mystery destination, but the ride ran late and the mystery destination … Read more
[Thanks to BikePortland intern J.R. (Jonathan Reed) for reporting on last night’s Remedial Ride. Apparently 80 people showed up — twice last year’s turn out!] Frites from Potato Champion(Photo: Jonathan Reed) Approximately 45 people on bikes gathered at Colonel Summers park at 7:00pm Tuesday for a Pedalpalooza event called the “Remedial Ride 2.” Ride organizer … Read more
Clever Cycles owner Dean Mullin at the Tapas Ride last night.– Slideshow below/Photo gallery – (Photos © J. Maus) Portland is a city known for many things; including food, fashion, beer, music, and of course, bikes. At last night’s Tapas Ride, we did our part to cover three of those. The ride was organized and … Read more
Last night in Overlook Park, about 16 men and women, wearing everything from short skirts to spandex, learned the rudiments of a newly emerging martial art form: Bikendo. Our teacher was Nature Boy, a longtime practitioner of karate and tai chi. He had the idea to develop a specific self defense technique for people who … Read more
About 40 people showed up for the Benson Bubbler ride yesterday. (For those of you not from Portland, Benson Bubblers are the name given to our iconic drinking fountains). We met at SW 5th and Washington, site of the first bubbler, installed in 1912 (and still looking great). Our ride leader Lily brought along a … Read more
Full report on this ride by Deacon Amos Hunter at BikeTemple.org. Slideshow below (for captions, browse the album in the photo gallery): — More Pedalpalooza coverage
[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