Daily biking in Portland
Welcome back to guest author Dieter Loibner! In today’s installment, he tackles an epic Portland ride that’s often done en masse but — I think — is actually better done alone. That way you know you’ve done every torturous inch of it without the help of mass-ride-induced adrenaline:) I wrote …
Heh. I can just imagine some of you cringing at the idea of sitting at an intersection for two whole hours. But really, it’s a lot of fun! Summer means the advent of the Portland summer bicycle counts, a volunteer-intensive mission to count cyclists at hundreds of intersections throughout the …
This is just a fun little community thing happening this week to support running errands by bicycle. SE Clinton Street is Portland’s original bicycle boulevard (now called neighborhood greenways), established all the way back when my brother was born in 1985. (Alex, it’s as old as you are, ya damn …
It’s 6:30pm, and James and I are driving all around the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, looking for a parking spot. As we go up one street and down the next trolling for empty curbsides, I am about to blow my top. “How do people put up with this shit?” I …
