The year just flew by. It is the end of my fourth year as president of Portland Bicycling Club. For those of you who weren’t here at the time, I also served as president from 2011 to 2013. It was Portland Wheelmen Touring Club then. I am running again… Read More
A crash course in safety. Friends, we have had a few crashes on club rides of late, and we’ll try to share some safety tips soon as a result. I know I always like to know what happened in hopes that I can learn and then avoid the same… Read More
As we wave goodbye to the end of the wonderful, warm, and mostly dry, summer cycling season of 2024, I feel the club’s activity level notching down a bit. We still have rides on the calendar because we ride all year. We still have meetings because we like to… Read More
The question is periodically posed: Does size matter? When I joined what was then Portland Wheelmen Touring Club, now Portland Bicycling Club, I’m fairly certain membership was over 1,000. For the last few years, we have hovered around 450-475. Why? I can only speculate. I think fewer people choose… Read More
PIONEER CENTURY®. Our club’s iconic, beloved event ride. Relief, exhaustion, elation – what are YOU feeling now that it’s in the rearview mirror? I was so impressed with the efforts made and the end results on display on June 8. A great representation of our club and a well-executed… Read More
Thank you all – approximately 30 of our members – for traveling down to Salem-Keizer for Salem Bicycle Club’s annual MONSTER COOKIE RIDE on April 28. Their club had devised an entirely new route with safety (less-traveled roads) in mind. I think most of us found the new route… Read More
Benefits of club membership are many. I recently experienced a significant benefit when my husband Jim and I finally got to travel to Tucson to join other club members, a number of whom have been traveling down there for years. Long ago, these springtime rides were club rides and… Read More
I have been a PBC (FKA Portland Wheelmen Touring Club) member since 1992. I have met a lot of people over the years, had a lot of fun, and shared a lot of hard work with fellow club members. I think we could agree that our members enhance PBC… Read More
