It appears that Google is bike trail mapping Seattle, but why not here in the best bike city in America? Has anyone seen on of these in Portland? Does anyone have more info about it? Buehler?

Slightlynorth / Shawn sent this message over about the pic…

I really don’t know anything more about it than it rolled past me while I was skating in West Seattle. I hauled ass to catch up with him and snap that shot with my iPhone. He was going a pretty steady speed the whole time.

Related: Portland Pictures

Portland Night Ride
From pdxktv

Did you think the bike parties were over just b/c Pedalpalooza and World Naked Bike ride have passed us by? Wrong. The Portland Night Ride is this weekend and looks like a lot of fun after watching that video.

(Related: 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | July 9-12)

Press Release and Testimonial from Meetin Portland below:

WHEN:
Saturday, July 11, 9:00 PM – 12:00 AM

THE NIGHT RIDE is a fantastically fun (and easy!) 15-mile bicycle ride happening on July 11. The route, starting and ending at the Portland train station, features fire dancers, an outdoor screening of movies from the wildly popular Filmed by Bike festival, a disco party rest stop, mysteries at every turn and well-marked routes with glowing signs. The Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers kicks off the ride, and Zimba Marimba brings it to a close at the finish line ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT DOUGHNUT FEAST!

There are prizes for the best costumes and decorated bikes (including SKS Germany’s world leading quick release fender combination with a twist – a patriotic red/blue combination!) Also, all 3,000 riders will receive free glow necklaces to ward off vampires along the way.

This great event is a benefit for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance.

MORE INFO + REGISTRATION: http://TheNightRide.com

WHERE:
Union Station
800 NW 6th Ave., Portland, OR 97209

COST:
$25/in-store, $30/online, $40/day of event **This event is a benefit for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance! Learn more at http://bta4bikes.org/
Register to ride at http://www.thenightride.com/night-ride-reg.html

This is why I am a big fan of MeetinPortland (aka MiPL). You come across posts like this where they invite you to join them in their fun times:

From Meetin (event info here if you want to hang with them):

Do you have a bike? Do you want to explore Portland at night? Do you HATE competitive sports? Do you have $30 for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance? Then the Night Ride may be for you!

I have been on this ride two years ago, and it was great! This year, they’re offering free glow-in-the-dark face painting and glow necklaces for all riders. They’ll also provide us with route maps at the start. We’ll ride from about dark at 9 PM until 11 or 12 midnight before we call it a night. That includes the movie on the lawn and lots of breaks for snacks, fire jugglers, glow-in-the-dark hula hoopers, a disco party, and other surprises!

The judges will be roaming the start line—but only to look for the very best costumes. We’ll make sure you’re at the start line between 8:15 and 8:45 to be in the running for our awesome prizes, which include free passes to next year’s ride! OK, costumes are optional, but encouraged.

Let’s meet a little ways away from the mob at NW 8th and Glisan (the northeast corner of the park blocks). We’ll stay until 8:15 PM, and then head over to registration at Union Station.

YOU MUST wear a helmet and bring a working headlight. A tail light is also strongly encouraged, as is reflective clothing. But I promise to go slowly and act as sweeper for the group. Here’s a little movie of what to expect:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I77q3AiqTVY&feature=player_embedded

Want to win tickets to this? Comment on why you love bikes, bike culture, pedalpalooza, Jonathan Maus , the BTA, etc. I will draw winners around noon on Friday and email them. If you haven’t received an email by Friday afternoon, you have not won. GOOD LUCK!

Other Portland Valentines Weekend Events here

From Zoobomb

Howdy,
Minibike Winter in Portland, OR is right around the corner, this Valentines day weekend! Come join us for the debauchery, drinking, and riding bikes.

Full schedule here:
http://zoobomb.net/minibikewinter/

And of course, the brutal Ben Hurt III Chariot Wars is on Valentines Day itself:
http://flickr.com/photos/gabrielamadeus/sets/72157613058639884/

Hope to see you out there, or maybe at least talking about it on the Interwebs!
Take care, Gabriel Amadeus Tiller

For those of you who might not know…Gabriel is a bike-jousting expert…award-winning I believe

Mini Bike Winter Schedule from site after the jump….

Thursday February 12th :.
8:00pm
@ ??? – location TBA
Fashion Forward
DIY Mini Bike Winter Swag Night
Bring stencils and clothes

.: Friday February 13th :.
6:30pm
@ The Zoobomb Pile
Badass Challenge
Can you make it UP the hill with nothing but human & bike power?
Later we will ride to the LightBar
-
LightBar
@ NE27th & Killingsworth
info: http://mykle.com/lightbar/
BYOB and then some!
Opens @ dark.
-
12:00am
Midnight Mystery Ride
Leaves from the Lightbar.

.: Saturday February 14th :.
11:00am
Brunch
@ SE 47th & Taylor
Bring food & drink to share
-
1:00pm
Ben Hurt III Chariot Battle
We will ride to the Ben Hurt III event location from brunch

Mini Bike Winter Party
Time & Location TBA

Fashion Show
Silent Auction
Dance Party

Performances by:
The Sprockettes – http://sprockettes.org/
Chain Reaction – http://www.godallman.com/chainreactionpdx/
Nerds On Wheels

Bands:
Full Face Riot – www.myspace.com/fullfaceriot
Riot Cop – www.myspace.com/riotcop

.: Sunday February 15th :.
2:00pm
Mini Bike Winter Olympics
@ Eastbank of Esplanade right around the Hawthorn Bridge
Events:
Mini Bike Sprint
Mini Bike Long Jump
Tyke Toss
Ass Down Derby
Mini Bike Jousting
DeathJam
Cupcake Challenge

The Glorious Bicycle Belles are performing the half time show.
-
9:00pm
Downhill Madness
@ 10th & SW Burnside – Zoobomb Pile
WEAR A HELMET!
Events:
Skate Race
Tour De Bomb
Family Bomb
Beer Bungree
Legoland Race

From the Sprockettes:

Announcing the Sprockette Bicycle Bash!!!!!
JUNE 28th THIS SATURDAY!! 8PM (show starts at 9PM, please be on time!!!)
at 606 SE MADISON, PORTLAND OREGON
ALL AGES!!!!! (please no outside alcohol)
21+ Bar with I.D
Tickets are 5$ available at the door, also at Brownpapertickets. com and During the day at the Multnomah County Bike Fair June 28th at Colonels Sumners Park the same day of the event …..June 28th…..
(we recommend purchasing tickets prior to the event…)

More after jump…

Come Celebrate our 5TH ANNIVERSARY with
The BC CLETTES
(an All Female Bike Inspired Dance Troupe from Vancouver BC)

The BRAKES
( an Boy-lesque Bike Dance Team from Vancouver BC)

K.A.Z.U.

M
(Portland’s Primere Acrobalance Troupe)

CHAIN REACTION
(Portlands Own Male Mini Bike Dance Team)

The DERAILLEURS
(Bay Area all Female Bike Dance Troupe)

the SECRET CIRCUS UNICYCLE ACT
( Bay Area Circus Pair Unicycle Dance)

and Hoopettes Vanessa and Melissa
(traveling Hoopists from Bellingham WA)

CYCLECIDE ( Bay Area Masterminds)
Will also have a BIKE POWERED FERRIS WHEEL!!!!!!

ALSO THE NIGHT WILL INCLUDE
and ART SHOW with local artists…
Ashley montague
Seth Neefus
Empire 333
Rascoe
Vanessa Renwick
DeJerk
Rev Phil
photos from Dat’r and Johnathon Maus
And MANY MORE!!!!!

There will be a RAFFLE ; SILENT AUCTION & TOO!!!!! with Great Prizes Donated by local businesses, and artists….
AND OF COURSE.. DANCING ALL NIGHT with DJ GRAY!!!
DONT MISS OUT OF THIS AMAZING EVENT!!!!!!!!

“You didn’t think I was rolling out of here naked!”

Wear your bathrobe. The Big Lebowski themed ride finishes at the AMF Pro 300 Bowling Alley on SE Powell where bike parking, cheap bowling, and specials on White Russians await!

Read the Blog – Win Free Pizza

Here’s a great chance to earn free Hot Lips Pizza!  Simply answer these four questions (all answers can be found here on the blog) and submit them here (SmartTripsDowntown@pdxtrans.org). We’ll select three winners!

 

1.Which number do you call for downtown traffic alerts?

 

2. How many tickets do you need to buy to ride the entire streetcar loop all day long?

 

3. By simply walking to the bus or train, how much more likely is a transit rider to achieve 30 minutes of daily exercise than a car commuter?

 

4. How long does a three-mile bike commute at a no-sweat, 10 mph pace take? (hint: think fried dough…)

I’d like a large pizza, hold the CO₂

PS. I am a member of their email list/RSS feed and I ordered the Smart Trips packet=changed my life.

Go over there check out what they are doing. 

Vice Magazine, home of the scathing Dos and Don’ts feature among other sarcasm-laden cultural commentary tidbits, is hosting (in conjunction with Dewar’s) the kickoff event for the 2007 Bicycle Film Festival this Thursday, September 6th at Holocene. The evening will start off with a debate entitled “Bikes or Cars?” followed by music from Flosstradamus and DJ Beyonda. The debate will begin at 8:30, but Dewar’s will be pouring complimentary cocktails starting at 7:30.

I attended the Debate Club co-sponsored by the Portland Mercury and the Bus Project last month (topic: Bikes vs. Cars) at rontoms, and, as you might imagine, it was very much a pro-bike affair; considering the fact that the car-friendly camp was 50% represented by Mel Zucker of the Oregon Transportation Institute, an old-guard type armed with arguments based on utterly irrelevant statistics, the panel was hardly balanced.

The Bus Project has not yet announced the topic for September’s Debate Club, but the August forum on gentrification was sufficiently lively to compel me to encourage anyone with even a shred of interest in local goings-on to attend future events. The Vice shindig promises “two masters of argumentation,” setting the bar rather high, but hey, even if the discussion is weak and the point-making is flimsy, there’s going to be FREE BOOZE.

So, let’s take a look…

1. greg oden
   • Greg Oden…really honored….I need to put more info about you to direct those people to right place/info (but it looks like they are finding your blog from my earlier posts). I’m sure I’ll be writing Blazers stuff when the season starts (email us if you want to)…Rip City baby!

   

2. Plan B Bar 1305 SE 8th Ave portland oregon
   • Nice – the searches for Plan B Bar are going up every day. Good for Jeff! I’m all about the Plan B (and the B-Triangle) success.

   

3. plan b bar portland
   • yep 2 and 3–Plan B is almost Hansel/Flexcar hot!
4. black tangerine music
   • black tangerine music must be playing a show this weekend or just getting more popular, but here is some info on their pioneer square noon tunes show with a link to their site.
5. piercing
   1. hmmm…weird, must be because of this Dante’s show where there was live tattooing and piercing going on and THE SMOOCH GIRLS!

   

6. rockfest 12 portland pictures
   • Again, that’s that bad mojo KUFO 101 has created with hummer/bummer–get a hybrid or a biodiesel…come on, it’s been 2 months since you said you would/lied.

   

7. morrison hotel portland
   1. Morrison Hotel was actually top yesterday and their searches are going up dramatically. Good for them. Now, I want a free beer for this press I’m serious. I’ll take this 40 of Old German in fact.

• 8. bike commuting
  • Cool, but you should really go see the expert in Portland on this, Mr Jonathan Maus of BikePortland.org
• 9. Diggnation
  • See Kevin Rose and Alex–you gotta do a Diggnation in the PDX. Portland has really, really, really good beer as you know and we’ve got 47 digg votes to prove it as of this moment (get those up!).

NEWSFLASH! The B:C:Clettes, those lovely bicycle showgirls from Vancouver, BC, are

going on tour in August! 

Yes, we will be bringing our bicycle-inspired performances up and down the west coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles and back on our 2007 B:C:Clettes VELO:CITY Tour,

leaving a trail of glitter and bike love in our wake.

Please help us make VELO:CITY a resounding success! Visit our website at

www.bcclettes.ca or www.myspace.com/bcclettes to find out more details. Come and see

us perform, track our progress, and SUPPORT our tour

August 30
Alberta Last Thursday Street Fair

My girlfriend and I decided it would be a fun idea to bike from Oregon to Washington on the I-205 bike bridge this weekend. So we strapped our bikes to the car, drove to Sandy Blvd, then began our I-205 bridge biking experience.

And oh, what an experience it was… an experience in breathing in car exhaust, my girlfriend having to stop and sit down to breathe & deafening car / motorcycle noise that we had to yell to one another.

So if you’re ever thinking of biking the I-205 bridge… here’s a warning: it’s pretty cool to tell your friends you’ve biked across the bridge, but if you do it you probably will never want to bike it ever again.

Christian

Challenge yourself to rediscover the benefits of biking to work – and of friendly competition for a good cause – by joining in the 2007 Bike Commute Challenge, our annual month-long bike-to-work competition for Oregon and SW Washington workplaces.

It starts September 1st and runs for the whole month. Last year more than 6,000 people took the Challenge, and this year we want 7,000 people to take the Challenge with us! You can help by signing yourself up, and by signing up a friend.

If your company is already registered, contact your coordinator for the company code, and then register. If your company is not on the list (companies registered last year have been archived), go ahead and register it yourself.

Here are a couple of updates for 2007:

Pic= Fizzy K at Clever Cycles in SE PDX

• Raffles: There will be a raffle on September 14th for all bikers who have logged at least two trips; another on September 21st for all bikers who have logged at least five trips; separate raffles for the different geographic areas of Oregon and SW Washington on September 30th for all bikers who have logged at least one trip; and a raffle at the After Party for attendees. Raffle prizes include hotel stays, movie passes, ride registrations, meals, coffee, bike stuff, BTA gear, and more. Details for each raffle will be posted the week before.

• The After Party: It will be from 6-7 pm on Thursday, October 4th, at a Portland location to be determined, sponsored by Widmer Brothers Brewing and Hot Lips Pizza. A great after-work reward for your team!

• The Challenge Mixer: Join BTA staff and Challenge participants in Portland on Tuesday, September 18th, at the McMenamins Market St. Pub (1526 SW 10th Ave.) from 5:00 – 8:00 pm for a Challenge mixer. This is a great opportunity to connect with other bicyclists, pick up maps, ask for commuting advice, and find out about our advocacy work. Plus, one-half of all purchases from 5:00 pm to 1:00 am go to support the BTA and the Bike Commute Challenge. Hope we’ll see you there!

• On-site workshops: Thanks to presenting sponsors Metro and OHSU, we can offer more on-site workshops than ever (in the metro-area only, but we can help with non-metro-area workshops as well). Contact us for more info.

• Discounts: This year, riders with a tally card showing seven bike trips can get a 10% discount on gear and parts at participating bike shops from September 15th through October 15th.

If you’re new to bike commuting, check out our resources for new bikers. And if you already bike to work often, use this program to encourage and support your coworkers as they try it for themselves.

Are you up to the Challenge? I think you are!

Michelle

Today

Sushi Takahashi
elliott smith
bike porn
portland sky tram
Elliott Smith
morrison hotel portland
milepost5
rontoms
wet t shirt

Yesterday’s top search:
outlaws + clutch + portland

Clutch…rocking it…

NEWSFLASH! The B:C:Clettes, those lovely bicycle showgirls from Vancouver, BC, are

going on tour in August! 

Yes, we will be bringing our bicycle-inspired performances up and down the west coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles and back on our 2007 B:C:Clettes VELO:CITY Tour,

leaving a trail of glitter and bike love in our wake.

Please help us make VELO:CITY a resounding success! Visit our website at

www.bcclettes.ca or www.myspace.com/bcclettes to find out more details. Come and see

us perform, track our progress, and SUPPORT our tour

August 30
Alberta Last Thursday Street Fair

• A “Zeppelin of Love” full of fun-seeking cyclists is on its way from Los Angeles to Portland and they call themselves the Midnight Ridazz.
• full-blown social phenomenon that regularly gets 1000+ people out on their monthly rides

“I asked Placid Casual and other one of the trip organizers, Reverend Joe Borfo, a few questions about the Midnight Ridazz and about their Portland plans.”

Why did you decide to come to Portland?…READ MORE

Tour de Fat is coming to Portland on August 18. New Belgium will be giving a custom bike to one chosen person for the title of their car.

Information sent over from Bryan @ New Belgium Beer:

We’re looking for one dedicated person to hand over their car, title and keys to the Tour de Fat altar at each stop this summer. In exchange for this tremendous gesture, New Belgium will award you with a hand-crafted, fully loaded, Fort Collins-built…READ MORE on Tour de Fat