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Google Maps/Street View Camera Bike
Seattle, Washington
Taken on July 23, 2009
Photo by Slightlynorth
It appears that Google is bike trail mapping Seattle, but why not here in the best bike city in America? Has anyone seen on of these in Portland? Does anyone have more info about it? Buehler?
Slightlynorth / Shawn sent this message over about the pic… Read the rest of this entry »
(We are GIVING AWAY 4 Tickets to this! Information on winning below)
Portland Night Ride
From pdxktv
Did you think the bike parties were over just b/c Pedalpalooza and World Naked Bike ride have passed us by? Wrong. The Portland Night Ride is this weekend and looks like a lot of fun after watching that video.
(Related: 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | July 9-12)
Press Release and Testimonial from Meetin Portland below:
WHEN:
Saturday, July 11, 9:00 PM – 12:00 AM
THE NIGHT RIDE is a fantastically fun (and easy!) 15-mile bicycle ride happening on July 11. The route, starting and ending at the Portland train station, features fire dancers, an outdoor screening of movies from the wildly popular Filmed by Bike festival, a disco party rest stop, mysteries at every turn and well-marked routes with glowing signs. The Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers kicks off the ride, and Zimba Marimba brings it to a close at the finish line ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT DOUGHNUT FEAST!
There are prizes for the best costumes and Read the rest of this entry »
OK, forget flowers and candy and dinners–THIS is what you take your special someone to this Valentine's weekend. Look at that flyer. Nothing says Valentine's like a skull and “badass challenge”. Hey, need a place to crash after all the romantic wining and dining? How about crashing with a cuddly Zoobomber (Email housing@zoobomb.net)?
Other Portland Valentines Weekend Events here
From Zoobomb
Howdy,
Minibike Winter in Portland, OR is right around the corner, this Valentines day weekend! Come join us for the debauchery, drinking, and riding bikes.
Full schedule here:
http://zoobomb.net/minibikewinter/
And of course, the brutal Ben Hurt III Chariot Wars is on Valentines Day itself:
http://flickr.com/photos/gabrielamadeus/sets/72157613058639884/
Hope to see you out there, or maybe at least talking about it on the Interwebs!
Take care, Gabriel Amadeus Tiller
For those of you who might not know…Gabriel is a bike-jousting expert…award-winning I believe
Mini Bike Winter Schedule from site after the jump…. Read the rest of this entry »
From the Sprockettes:
Announcing the Sprockette Bicycle Bash!!!!!
JUNE 28th THIS SATURDAY!! 8PM (show starts at 9PM, please be on time!!!)
at 606 SE MADISON, PORTLAND OREGON
ALL AGES!!!!! (please no outside alcohol)
21+ Bar with I.D
Tickets are 5$ available at the door, also at Brownpapertickets. com and During the day at the Multnomah County Bike Fair June 28th at Colonels Sumners Park the same day of the event …..June 28th…..
(we recommend purchasing tickets prior to the event…)More after jump… Read the rest of this entry »
The Dude abides…Laurelhurst Park 6:30
“You didn't think I was rolling out of here naked!”
Wear your bathrobe. The Big Lebowski themed ride finishes at the AMF Pro 300 Bowling Alley on SE Powell where bike parking, cheap bowling, and specials on White Russians await!
From PortlandOnline's SmartTrips/Commuter Central blog:
Read the Blog – Win Free Pizza
Here's a great chance to earn free Hot Lips Pizza! Simply answer these four questions (all answers can be found here on the blog) and submit them here (SmartTripsDowntown@pdxtrans.org). We'll select three winners!
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PS. I am a member of their email list/RSS feed and I ordered the Smart Trips packet=changed my life.
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Vice Magazine, home of the scathing Dos and Don'ts feature among other sarcasm-laden cultural commentary tidbits, is hosting (in conjunction with Dewar's) the kickoff event for the 2007 Bicycle Film Festival this Thursday, September 6th at Holocene. The evening will start off with a debate entitled “Bikes or Cars?” followed by music from Flosstradamus and DJ Beyonda. The debate will begin at 8:30, but Dewar's will be pouring complimentary cocktails starting at 7:30.
I attended the Debate Club co-sponsored by the Portland Mercury and the Bus Project last month (topic: Bikes vs. Cars) at rontoms, and, as you might imagine, it was very much a pro-bike affair; considering the fact that the car-friendly camp was 50% represented by Mel Zucker of the Oregon Transportation Institute, an old-guard type armed with arguments based on utterly irrelevant statistics, the panel was hardly balanced.
The Bus Project has not yet announced the topic for September's Debate Club, but the August forum on gentrification was sufficiently lively to compel me to encourage anyone with even a shred of interest in local goings-on to attend future events. The Vice shindig promises “two masters of argumentation,” setting the bar rather high, but hey, even if the discussion is weak and the point-making is flimsy, there's going to be FREE BOOZE.
This is what people typed into google or yahoo (msn, etc) and came to the PDX PIPELINE from 5PM yesterday to 5PM today (Midnight GMT is what WordPress uses).
So, let's take a look…
From my August 14th Post:
NEWSFLASH! The B:C:Clettes, those lovely bicycle showgirls from Vancouver, BC, are
going on tour in August!
Yes, we will be bringing our bicycle-inspired performances up and down the west coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles and back on our 2007 B:C:Clettes VELO:CITY Tour,
leaving a trail of glitter and bike love in our wake.
Please help us make VELO:CITY a resounding success! Visit our website at
www.bcclettes.ca or www.myspace.com/bcclettes to find out more details. Come and see
us perform, track our progress, and SUPPORT our tour
August 30
Alberta Last Thursday Street Fair
I realized about halfway to Washington on the I-205 bridge bike path that I wasn't having much fun.
My girlfriend and I decided it would be a fun idea to bike from Oregon to Washington on the I-205 bike bridge this weekend. So we strapped our bikes to the car, drove to Sandy Blvd, then began our I-205 bridge biking experience.
And oh, what an experience it was… an experience in breathing in car exhaust, my girlfriend having to stop and sit down to breathe & deafening car / motorcycle noise that we had to yell to one another.
So if you're ever thinking of biking the I-205 bridge… here's a warning: it's pretty cool to tell your friends you've biked across the bridge, but if you do it you probably will never want to bike it ever again.
Christian
