To celebrate Earth Day, the Eugene 08 organizers announced on April 22 that during the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Track & Field, spectators and Festival patrons who ride their bikes (or scooters or skateboards) to Hayward Field will have free valet parking. The Center for Appropriate Transport will staff the bike parking area [...]
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Filed under: Travel, Willamette Valley
by Mark Lansing
We have previously touted Portland, Eugene and Jacksonville as the best places in Oregon to ride. To that list, one must add Bend.
The volcanic-dirt and pine-needle trail south of town along the Deschutes River is breath-taking. The trail along the Deschutes in the north part of town is almost as nice, if not [...]
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Filed under: Advice, Eastern Oregon, Opinion, Safety, Travel, You Heard It Here First
Circus street fair in Portland celebrates vibrant bike culture
The circus is coming to Mississippi Avenue! The Mississippi community is coming together to put on the best circus street fair in town on Saturday, June 14. Get ready for clowns, jugglers, unicycle jousting, sculptural bikes, freakishly tall bikes and other two-wheeled creations beyond your wildest dreams. [...]
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Filed under: Art, Event Rides, Portland Area, Racing
by Tom Baldinger
I have a treasure in my back yard. Not many people know about it. At the risk of spilling the beans, I am going to let Eugene mountain bikers in on a sweet secret. I live just outside the city limits on Lorane Highway and have 70 miles of trails to ride on [...]
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Filed under: MTB, Willamette Valley
On working to create a legal movement for non-motorized roadway users in Oregon
by Ray Thomas
It is time for us to band together with all user groups and pursue our common goals of making Oregon’s roads more safe. Significant progress has already been made in recent years by the activist bicyclist movement, efforts to increase the [...]
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Filed under: Bikes & The Law, Opinion, Road Rules, Safety
Pendleton’s Century Ride of the Centuries
by Ellee Thalheimer
I knew I had to listen to a man who loves to dress up in a wig, cowboy hat, enormous mustache, set of naaasstty fake-tobacco-stained-snaggly dentures, and bright pink attire while calling himself ‘Pinky the Bandit from the Blues.’ His name is Herb Bitting, and he’s [...]
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Filed under: Eastern Oregon, Event Rides, Road Riding, Travel
by William F. Larabell-Ross, age 18
Some people may call me a bike enthusiast or a bike freak but I prefer to refer to myself as a bike lover. Whether riding them, building them, fixing them or just cleaning them, I love my bikes. Most of my metal and rubber acquaintances are a little deformed or [...]
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Filed under: Personal Stories, Shop Talk, Youth Articles
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