VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES We have many talented and intelligent members in our club. When they step down from a volunteer position, leaving a vacancy, it can be a little intimidating to imagine ourselves stepping into that role and performing the job as well. Please don’t let your mind go there! You… Read More
East county coffee shops are few and far between. There’s just not enough year-round traffic to support coffee shops on the edge of our urban growth boundary. Our Coffee House is in a new shoppette at the corner of SE Lusted and SE 282nd. West of 282nd… Read More
The 2023 STP is in the books once more. About 5500 riders completed the 204 miles by Sunday evening. For PBC, the work started months before the first rider headed south Saturday. Permits from the City needed to be obtained. Dozens of PBC volunteer slots were filled. The Skyview High… Read More
Seattle to Portland, STP, is Portland Bicycling Club’s biggest annual money raiser. Our own Pioneer Century® did well this year and we are proud of it, but it hasn’t generated the kind of income we get from Cascade Bicycle Club in years. Of course, STP is a four-day enterprise, so… Read More
STP (SEATTLE to PORTLAND) This event is over for 2023 and a huge THANK YOU to all of you who were able to volunteer and help the 5,500 riders who came in for a quick visit. It was truly a talented group of PBC members who showed up, learned their… Read More
Our club has been hard at work on the Banks-Vernonia Trail this summer. PBC has had a couple of work parties a month out fixing potholes in the trail. We have, in partnership with the Stub Stewart park rangers, patched more than a dozen nasty potholes, and our club’s donation… Read More
Great Weather and Camaraderie Last Memorial Day weekend, twenty-five hardy souls strapped everything they needed on their bikes and spent four days cycling and camping in the gorgeous Gorge. We left from Larson’s Bakery in Vancouver, heading east for two days along the north side of the Columbia River,… Read More
The Seattle-to-Portland ride is a great ride and should be a great experience. You will traverse new country, meet new people, and see things you have never seen before. One time, I pulled into the Tenino rest stop, saw a rider get off his bike, lean it… Read More
