Daily biking in Portland
What’s a girl to do with her time on a Sunday morning? If you’d asked me a few days ago, it was a fine time to go hunker down along the Esplanade by OMSI for two hours and keep a tally–in 15 minute increments–of who went by on the trail. …
What better way to celebrate a Friday commute over one of Portland’s lovely bridges than happy people serving you free coffee and donuts? Oh, how about free breakfast tacos too? Gluten-free pancakes, perhaps? That’s what Shift’s Breakfast on the Bridge is all about. Run entirely by volunteers who simply want …
Every year since 2002, Portland has a 2-week summer fest of bicycling: Pedalpalooza. It’s put on largely by the lovely people at Shift and features more crazy random bike rides than you could ever handle in a two-week period. Just today, for example, I could have chosen to circumnavigate Ross …
The background: It’s been a while since I’ve taken a for-real bike adventure. So with yesterday’s free day, I jumped on the chance to check out the Banks-Vernonia State Trail, an old railroad line that was converted into a 21-mile bike/hike/horse trail. It starts in Banks, Oregon, and appropriately ends …
