Pedalpalooza 2023 Events and Rides UPDATED

Hey folks. I've gone ahead and added one more event to the list of Pedalpalooza rides and events I'm doing: Another Bike Touring Workshop slated for the evening of Thursday July 6th. That's when the Societe des Rambleneurs ride was supposed to happen, now that's been bumped to Sunday July 30th. So now I'm doing...

Two Pedalpalooza camping trips added: Midweek Gorge, 14-15 June, and Oxbow Overnighter, 13-14 July 2023

Hey folks! I previously mentioned all the rides I'm doing during Pedalpalooza 2023, which is all of summer (June through August), plus I shared my summer schedule for the Sunset/Moonrise Ride series. Now it's time to share the two (yes, two!) camping rides I'm leading. They are all weekday ones, as I'm busy on a...

Pedalpalooza Preview 2023

Pedalpalooza is Portland's all-summer (June, July, August) festival of bike fun, where hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of individual bike rides are led by people like you and me. I've been busy working on getting all my events on the calendar. Here's what I got so far. The full line up should be finalized in...

Ride Report: Creek Country Ramblers, 13 August 2022

Johnson Creek at Johnson Creek Park. Olympus XA2/Fujicolor 100 I love exploring Johnson Creek, the waterway that marks the southern boundary of the city of Portland. I've featured it on several rides I've done. But I've never made the creek (and several of its tributaries) the focus of a ride. So I was excited to...

Ride Report: Sunset/Moonrise Ride, 11 August 2022

Camera: Minolta SR-T 101. Lens: Minolta Celtic MC 135mm f/3.5 Film: Lomography 800 Thursday August 11th was a long and tough day for me. I had to wake up at 6, and my morning and afternoon was dealing with transporting a stage (via UHaul truck) and setting it up/dismantling. This was all for my day...

My Pedalpalooza 2022 report, as we are in the final month

It's the final month of Pedalpalooza, Portland's summer-long bicycle fun fest. Last time we checked in I had went on the Kickoff Ride on June 1st, Tom Howe's Know Your Greenways Ride on June 8, and then the first two rides I have led: Sunset/Moonrise and the Gorge Ride. Since that report on June 27,...

A quick update on rides for the rest of summer and into fall

New Urban Hieroglyphics, 8 July 2022. Pentax IQZoom 928 (Espio 928)/ Fuji 200 Hello there, fine folks! I just want to remind you that I have two rides coming up this month. Sunset/Moonrise does not require registration, Creek Country does--and there's a decent amount of slots still available! Thursday August 11, 7 PM: Sunset Moonrise Ride. Meet...

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...