Note: I'm currently on a family trip and not working normal hours. Email and message responses will be delayed and story and posting volumes here and on our social media accounts will not be at their usual levels until I return to Portland August 12th. Thanks for your patience and understanding. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
Friday (2/13) The Zoobomb Badass Challenge A signature event of Mini Bike Winter A weekend-long festival of mini bike fun and carnage. You zoobomb until you can’t any more. 6pm at the Zoobomb Pile, SW 10th and Oak Free Commuting Workshop at the Bike Farm A one hour workshop to learn the rules of the … Read more
Cody Reuwsaat, R.I.P.(Photo from Zoobomb Forum) Late Monday night, a house fire in Southwest Portland claimed the life of Cody Reuwsaat. Cody was a professional artist, specializing in horror make-up and props (the Willamette Week wrote a story about his work last year). Cody was also a friend of many people in the community and … Read more
The Ben Hurt Chariot Wars were one of many highlights at Mini Bike Winter V.(Photos © J. Maus)
[Photos by Jonathan Maus, reporting by Mykle Hansen]
[Skate Bomb!] [This coverage of Mini-Bike Winter IV comes from our special correspondent Mykle Hansen] Let the games begin! Mini-Bike Winter got off to an explosive start last night when a parade of nearly 150 brightly lit bikers — including several dozen visitors from Canada, Seattle and California, and quite a few first-time bombers — … Read more
New to Zoobomb’s Mini-Bike Winter this year are the much-anticipated Chariot Wars (yes chariots, as in Ben Hur). To help ready the masses for this series of competitions a chariot building workshop was held over the weekend. Attendees were given a handout that covered all the various design and welding issues one might face when … Read more
[The Chariot Wars are coming.] Portland’s mini-bike enthusiasts (a.k.a. the Zoobombers) are busy planning their biggest and baddest ever Mini Bike Winter. The event, a “bike-centric series of events celebrating human powered culture,” will take place February 17-19th. I attended a recent planning meeting to get the lowdown and now I understand what one Zoobomber … Read more