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Eichler Bike Park Rebuild: Day 2

Things are seriously moving along with the Eichler Bike Park Project. If you haven’t been following the story of the Eichler Park Jumps, click here for a recap. It’s been pretty exciting to see progress on this site finally happening, with a legit Bobcat on site moving earth. It was just over a year ago [...]

06.02.2011 Blog Read the full story →
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Flashback to sunnier days: summer pump track party at Paddy’s

The location: Northeast Portland, Oregon. We’re visiting our friend Paddy C’s backyard for what has become a 4th of July tradition, the yearly pump track party. The barbeque has been fired up, beers are flowing, and we are ripping circles over and over on the backyard track. Back yard pump tracks are still a new [...]

12.28.2010 Blog Read the full story →
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Eichler Bike Park Project in Beaverton gets the green light

Awesome news for mountain bikers in Portland, Oregon: local mountain bike advocacy group, the Northwest Trail Alliance, is about to move ahead with what will be the first sanctioned bicycle skills park (on dirt) in the Portland Metropolitan area. We first reported on the Eichler Park Bike Jump area back in May of this year, as part [...]

09.20.2010 Oregon Bike Parks Read the full story →
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World Naked Bike Ride

Guest Post by Tyson Hallock. Possibly NSFW. …4…3…2…1…ride naked! I had just ridden my bike down to the Portland 2010 World Naked Bike ride meeting area, a fenced in lot near Hawthorne bridge. Fully clothed I instantly felt out of place and looked for an open area to park my bike where I could tear my [...]

06.22.2010 Blog Read the full story →
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Powell Butte Trails- Portland’s only legal single track

The Pacific Northwest has a lot of great mountain biking opportunities, but mountain bikers attempting to minimize their carbon footprint are out of luck. When we get ready to head out to hit up some trails, we load up the car, and prepare to hit the highway first. Some days I’m not too crazy about [...]

06.06.2010 Oregon Trails Read the full story →

Not as bike friendly? Portland declared 2nd most bike friendly city

A big hullaballoo is being made of Bicycling magazine’s new list of America’s Top 50 bike-friendly cities. Portland, long declared as the number one bicycle friendly city, has been toppled from its lofty perch by Minneapolis, Minnesota. I for one, applaud that call. While Portland is a nice city to pedal around in, I’ve been [...]

04.08.2010 Blog Read the full story →

Backyard Blam Presents the Bridgetown Hustle

Prizes. Yelling. Sweet jumps. Art. Pump track action. If you’re in Portland on the 5th or 6th, check out this event- with some sort of event for bike freaks of all types, it looks to be a good time. Friday starts with a bunny hop contest, roller sprints, some sort of trick comp, and the [...]

02.02.2010 News Read the full story →