Team Effort. The Portland Bicycling Club has 487 active members and there are 1,318 subscribed readers of the Quick Releases newsletter. That’s a lot of cyclists who enjoy the benefits of our club. However, if you attend the club’s annual awards banquets, you might have noticed that some of… Read More
The main theme of this talk is our club’s signature PIONEER CENTURY® ride, scheduled for Saturday, June 13. This is the big one, planned and staffed by club volunteers to offer three scenic options of rural riding through Clackamas and Marion counties. It’s the event that promotes our club,… Read More
To misquote Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “In the spring, a young (and older) man’s (and woman’s) fancy lightly turns to…cycling!” The weather outside on a Monday afternoon in January certainly evokes that passage, as it is 58° with sunny skies. This brings to mind all of the activities that are… Read More
It’s Groundhog Day! Even though it’s just January and the actual traditional observance is on February 2nd, I believe that for most club members those words will elicit memories of the 1993 Bill Murray movie of that name. As you might recall, Murray’s character awakened to the same Groundhog… Read More
The year just flew by, didn’t it? And with it ends my second stint as the president for PBC. While I enjoy the role and working for you as club members, I also like to see new faces enter the picture to give energy and different vision to the… Read More
Not a new topic this month, but it continues to be important to me and I fear I may not be articulating my thoughts clearly. Portland Bicycling Club is a CLUB (a group of people, organizations, or nations having something in common). … Read More
Your board meets monthly, via Zoom, to discuss club issues. You have some excellent board members who each work hard at their assigned job and take the role of board officer seriously. You can depend on each of them to listen and give thoughtful responses, opinions, and rebuttals to… Read More
As mentioned last month, Portland Bicycling Club has built its financial reserves primarily on two annual events: Pioneer Century® and Seattle to Portland. We coordinate them, Pioneer being OUR event ride, and STP being Cascade Bicycle Club’s, but we manage the Finish Line, each and every year. We just… Read More
