Nine of us! Rode! Out to the genteel industrial park! That is home to the Bob’s Red Mill and the Dave’s Killer Bread stores. I got eight loaves of bread and two Sin Dawgs for $20, and picked up a 25lb. bag of quick oats for $18.50. We sat in Bob’s cafe and ate many…
Oy! We had an amazing time, sat in the jacuzzi, slid down the water slide, did about 10 laps each, wondered why swimming totally wiped us out when we can all bike 15 miles no problem, didn’t drink too much chlorinated water, two couples got married on the ride, three strangers abandoned their cars on…
Yesterday, Bike Portland reminded us again that for the last five years, the number of people riding bikes in Portland has not risen – about 7 percent of Portlanders say they use a bicycle as their primary way to get to work and back. Almost all the comments on that article voice the same opinion…
The Saturday before this Thanksgiving, Portland will finally host its first Cranksgiving – the food-drive scavenger hunt that started in 1999 in New York City – and this year 29 other cities will also take part. Word on the street is that Portland, ME, who’s already been doing this for two years, snorted contemptuously upon…
Everyone who owns a bike should have a bike club. Because it’s awesome. Being in a bike club is like being in a band, but you don’t have to schlep amps around or live in a smelly van for six months of the year. Biking about with your club is even funner than biking about…
Help us stamp out cabin fever!
What do you love about biking in the winter? Take a 30-second video – begin with “I love biking in the winter because…” Post it to YouTube Let us know about it.
I have a three-part cure for Seasonal Affective Disorder, which is built on three theories. Theory one: S.A.D. is mostly C.E.F. – Cabin Effing Fever. I know about cabin fever and its cure from growing up in Minnesota. If you wake up in your house-cabin, walk 20 feet to your car-cabin, drive to your work-cabin,…
Good on TriMet for adding some cheerful rhyming signs to help people remember to be civil as they shared the path through the Waterfront construction site surrounding OHSU and OSU’s future Collaborative Sciences Building. As far as I know, Portland State hasn’t done any formal research on the effectiveness of the signs, but for the…