Different, awesome, sometimes institutionalized things that happen around bikiness
That’s right. It’s fall, and despite all my thinking to the contrary last spring, the Community Cycling Center (with funding help from the Bike Gallery) was able to pull off one more Bike Club. That means that 11 more kids are learning how to bike safely on the road, adjust …
For the last three nights, James and I have been hosting Pete, a self-described red-bearded Welshman traveling around the Pacific Northwest on a tank of a $30 bike that he bought and fixed up when he flew in to Portland. It must be a Warmshowers adventure! I wrote about Warmshowers …
Yesterday, my co-teacher Lale and I taught our Bike Club kiddos how to fix flat tires. We spent some time reviewing how to take off a wheel (which we’d already taught them); they practiced putting patches on tubes and putting everything back together again; everyone felt pretty confident. Satisfied, we …
I noticed these signs on Going Street today, up in anticipation of Sunday’s Northeast Sunday Parkways. Come Sunday, bikes and pedestrians and skateboards and rollerblades and who knows what other human-powered things will take over Northeast Portland! So psyched!
