Donations for SnowCap Community Services will be collected at our club meeting on December 4. To get a jumpstart on your donations, here are some items on this year’s wish list: Canned fish and poultry,… Read More
Each year Portland Bicycling Club members nominate individuals they believe have shown exceptional effort on the club’s behalf over the course of the year. The nominations are made prior to the end of December, and the awards banquet is held early in the subsequent year. The awards committee,… Read More
There’s a bollard on the ramp in the middle of the path to the left before turning right onto the Springwater Corridor Trail. Let’s talk about posts, and I don’t mean social media. Bollards, poles, that kind of posts… You may or may not know that I crashed on a… Read More
Hey y’all, meet the new guy on the block, Sean Lee, who joined less than six months ago but is already, as he says, “loving it.” Although Sean’s lived in Portland for about five years, his road cycling was on hiatus until this last spring. He joined PBC… Read More
The Ride from Seattle to Vancouver and Party (RSVP) was a wonderful adventure that started with lots of different training rides under different temperatures. When we started the actual ride, the sunrise greeted a whole crowd of cyclists embarking from Seattle on the quest to pedal to Bellingham for the… Read More
The Portland Marathon has once again invited PBC to partner with them on Sunday, October 5, to provide lead-out cyclists for marathon lead runners. Runners follow and rely on the cyclists to accurately lead them through the course. We are looking for 18 riders to serve in this crucial support… Read More
Zwift. Rouvy. Trainer Road. Peloton. These are just some of the applications that cyclists use to train indoors. They are fitness apps that include cycling workouts with motivating instructors and realistic videos. Your faithful club member here does not Zwift. And the details of how they work is not at… Read More
I’ve experienced two bike accidents recently. On July 22, I was rearended by another rider (on a club group ride, the Tuesday Morning Double Challenge). My bike needed a new rear derailleur hanger and a wheel true. I was not injured. On August 1, I enjoyed a training ride along… Read More
