Are we ready for an Idaho-style bicycle yield law?

From the December, 2008 issue

by Ray Thomas
Would Oregon benefit from a law, similar to the one in Idaho, allowing bicyclists to slow down, yield to traffic and then travel through stop signs without coming to a complete stop or to stop, yield and then travel (when safe) through red lights?   Many if not most cyclists tend to behave this [...]

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Filed under: Advocacy, Bikes & The Law, Personal Stories, Road Riding, Road Rules, Safety, Travel

Tour through the High Desert

From the December, 2008 issue

by Jim Colbert
My daughter is about to have her first baby, a girl, in January, 2009, so I took this opportunity to ride from Eugene to visit her in the hills north of Pomeroy, Washington.
I started out on a Sunday taking the LTD bus to the Forest Service McKenzie Bridge District Office.  Having turned 65, [...]

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Filed under: Eastern Oregon, Personal Stories, Ride Reports, Road Riding, Travel

Ashland welcomes custom framebuilders

From the September, 2008 issue

by Karl Benedek
United Bicycle Institute and the Oregon Bicycle Constructors Association present the first ever Southern Oregon Custom Bicycle Show, Saturday, September 13 from 9am to 4pm on the grounds of United Bicycle Institute, 401 Williamson Way, Ashland, Oregon.
The day headlines with a show of classy, creative custom bikes from Oregon, Washington and California frame [...]

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Filed under: Art, Framebuilding, News, Southern Oregon, Travel

Ride the Rogue draws the crowds

From the September, 2008 issue

by Karl Benedek
The third annual Ride the Rogue (RTR) is turning into the biggest southern Oregon cycling event in history. This year’s RTR will take place Saturday, September 20, 2008 , starting at 7 AM from Palmerton Park in Rogue River. The biking route options include full, metric, and quarter century rides.  There is also [...]

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Coast or bust from the southern Willamette Valley

From the August, 2008 issue

by Karl Benedek
I get asked all the time about the best way to the coast from Eugene. Highway 126 is the most direct route, of course, but not the most fun. I had been out Smith River Road before, but had never tried Highway 36, so this July, my wife and I set out to [...]

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Filed under: Coast, Ride Reports, Travel, Willamette Valley

Bend’s Big Fat Tour

From the August, 2008 issue

Not too late to sign up!
by Melanie Fisher
Bend’s Big Fat Tour is three days of fully supported, guided and shuttled single track mountain biking bliss which takes place October 17-19, 2008. Not a race, The Big Fat Tour is a friendly mountain bike ride that takes place on Central Oregon singletrack over three days and [...]

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Filed under: Eastern Oregon, Event Rides, MTB, Travel

Eugene 08 Olympic Trials offers free valet bike parking

From the May, 2008 issue

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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Blow bells and a Bend din

From the May, 2008 issue

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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What would Pinky do?

From the May, 2008 issue

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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Patagonian adventure

From the April, 2008 issue

Biking from the “End of the Road” in South America
by Peter Marsh
The Spanish word “Patagonia” seems to resound in English with a strange and mythic ring to it and I’ve longed to visit the southern end of South American for as long as I can remember. My fascination began in a geography class when I [...]

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