Different, awesome, sometimes institutionalized things that happen around bikiness
Sometimes, I do stupid things. Like leave my house without my keys. And often, I don’t realize I’ve done a stupid thing until it’s sort of too late to fix it, at least for the short-term. This morning, for example, I met my friend at Planet Granite for some early-morning …
Most bike adventure I take is by myself. Some of that is due to schedule: though my job now is way more on the conventional side, for the most part the time that I can gracefully take off hasn’t coincided super well with other people’s schedules. Even now I …
Heh. I can just imagine some of you cringing at the idea of sitting at an intersection for two whole hours. But really, it’s a lot of fun! Summer means the advent of the Portland summer bicycle counts, a volunteer-intensive mission to count cyclists at hundreds of intersections throughout the …
This is just a fun little community thing happening this week to support running errands by bicycle. SE Clinton Street is Portland’s original bicycle boulevard (now called neighborhood greenways), established all the way back when my brother was born in 1985. (Alex, it’s as old as you are, ya damn …
A while ago I mentioned a Cycle Wild trip I was co-leading with the inimitable Ryan Good — well, it happened this weekend, and it was awesome. All told, 18 of us made the trek from Hillsboro to Stub Stewart State Park following back roads to Banks, then hopping onto …
You know, it may not sound like all that much fun, but sitting at an intersection corner for two hours, counting the people who go by on bicycles, is actually a pretty interesting endeavor. Earlier this summer, I signed up to help City of Portland with their yearly summer bicycle …
Are you curious about bike touring? Are you a woman or someone who identifies as a woman? Are you free tomorrow evening? Come join me and Erinne Goodell at VeloCult for a women’s specific bike touring workshop! We’ll be there to talk about our experiences, show off our loaded bikes, …
Sadly, I won’t be there (though happily, because I’ll be in Eugene:), but head down to the Steel, Hawthorne, or Burnside bridges tomorrow between 7 and 9am for some free coffee and treats. And superheroes!! (Yes, this is the Breakfast on the Bridge version of Halloween:) Tardy slips are available:)
I’m back from Glacier! Needless to say, it was pretty darn amazing, in no small part because of this kind of thing: (okay, that particular bear was from Alaska a few years ago. But I did see a bunch of grizzlies:) But more later in a real post. The important …
I just realized that BikePortland and I have the same birthday! Although it’s significantly younger than I am:) Happy birthday to one of my favorite bike resources in Portland!