3, 2, 1, joust!
Mini-bike jousters compete for victory at third annual Stumptown Joustdown event held at Colonel Summers park Saturday.– Slideshow below/Gallery –(Photos © J. Maus)
Rides/Events
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A fine day for a bike wedding
Announcing: The Marriage of Bonnie Hildebrand & Pete Hoebel
Sunday Parkways success: Thousands enjoy gift of carfree streets
It was a (car)free-for-all in North Portland yesterday.Slideshow below/Gallery(Photos © J. Maus) Sunday Parkways made a triumphant return to North Portland yesterday when thousands turned out to take advantage of 7.5 miles of carfree streets. Amid bright, warm sunshine and periodic rain showers, they came out on roller skates, on foot, and by every type … Read more
Pedalpalooza Daily: Monday, June 22
[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!]
Report: Take the Lane Ride
[Report by ride leader Emily Wilson via the Shift list. This is part of our ongoing Pedalpalooza coverage. See all our reports and photos here.] Tuesday evening, June 16th Around 10 riders met at the Whole Foods at 28th and E. Burnside for the Take the Lane Ride. We got take the lane stickers, copies … Read more
Report: Umpteenth Annual Taco Ride
[Report by ride leader Ben Salzberg via the Shift list. This is part of our ongoing Pedalpalooza coverage. See all our reports and photos here.] The taco ride is a victim of its own success. A lot of people really love to ride their bikes and eat tacos, it seems. Over 100 this time! We … Read more
Pedalpalooza Daily: Saturday, June 20
[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!]
Spreading the bike fun in Vancouver
[This is part of our ongoing Pedalpalooza coverage. See all our reports and photos here.] When Rev Phil (left) comes along, you never know what to expect.– Slideshow below/Gallery –(Photos © J. Maus) Last night, a hearty group of Portland bike fun elders headed north to Vancouver to bid aloha and pay respects to our … Read more
Pedalpalooza Daily: Friday, June 19
[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!]
Gorge Ride tests legs and MAX train capacity
[This ride was part of Pedalpalooza. See more of our Pedalpalooza coverage here.] Dedicated Gorge riders were rewarded with this spectacular scenery.(Photos by Dan Liu)
Report: Bike Camping 101
[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
Report/photos: Public Art Ride
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