Long Beach Peninsula Trip Report

Hello folks. I just got back from a trip to the Long Beach Peninsula, one of my favorite get-away destinations. You can read comix from the first three days below. I don't know if I'll get around to drawing the last day. And I'll apologize in advance but this blog will be quiet this week....

Can Portland style bike fun culture take hold elsewhere?

The poster I drew for Pedalpalooza 2006. This was the third PP poster I made. Recently Filmed By Bike founder Ayleen Crotty created a compilation zine about Portland's bike culture. This was in honor of twenty years of the event. She asked me to contribute, and I obliged, contributing a page about my interaction with...

The Return of the Superbe

My Raleigh Superbe at Kronberg Park on Kellogg Creek, Milwaukie OR. 21 Jan 2022. Camera: Olympus 35 RD/Film: Fujicolor 100 It's the central irony of my bike-liking life: As soon as I take the time to praise a particular bike, it goes away in some sense. It was just a few months after praising my...

Another SW Ramble, 8 July 2022

Unnamed dirt road off of SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy, 8 July 2022. Camera: Pentax IQZoom (Espio) 928. Film: Fuji 200 I've mentioned here before how deeper SW Portland, the part of the quadrant not close to the river and over the West Hills, is still a "Here Be Dragons" on my mental Portland map. And I...

Bikes and Film Cameras Club WITH Pentax IQZoom 928 35mm camera

From time to time I’ll have tested cameras packaged with Bikes and Film Cameras Club memberships. These are usually compact zoom point and shoots. …Bikes and Film Cameras Club WITH Agfamatic 2008 110 film camera

Exhaustion and frustration

A lovely view (at Open Meadow). 1 July 2022. Ricohflex Dia/Ilford XP2+ I just finished a week where I led three different bicycle rides. Three! They weren't all back-to-back, but there was only one "off" day separating the rides. (Ride-Off-Ride-Off-Ride) And I don't know why I decided to do it this way. Was it because...

Reminder: Sunset/Moonrise ride is TONIGHT, Wednesday July 13

Hey folks! It's going to be a nice day here in Portland, good weather for watching a moonrise. Bonus: Tonight is a Supermoon, and the "biggest" moon of the year! (The moon of course isn't actually larger, it just appears that way.) Why not ride with us tonight? Here are the full details: Wednesday July...

I Shoot Film Ride Report, 28 June 2022

Please note: This post also appeared on our sister site, the Bikes and Film Cameras Club blog. Ah, Portland, I love you. I thought I might be the only person to lead a "pedal bikes, shoot film" typed ride for this Pedalpalooza. But no, there was someone else leading one, someone I didn't even know!...