The Portland Bicycling Club’s executive board has not met since early March, and we have not held a member meeting either. Generally, we are looking to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and state of Oregon leadership, to guide us in our decision-making as to when we can safely… Read More
Fellow Portland Bicycling Club members, this update reflects current information made available to me by Alexis Gabriel, PBOT Sunday Parkways Coordinator. The June 28 event will be virtual, providing programming across the month of June. I asked Alexis what we can do here as Portland Bicycling Club. How can we… Read More
With all the uncertainty about the coming summer due to the virus, I have canceled the Bullards Beach Weekend that was scheduled for the second week in July. Bud Rice, Ride Leader… Read More
Reach the Beach, as many of you know, had been scheduled for May 16. With a pandemic in our midst, that sort of event is just not possible. Organizers at American Lung Association initially rescheduled the ride for August 15. It is now scheduled for SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11. Ride Leader… Read More
July-to-June terms of three executive board positions expire at the end of June: one road captain and two members at large. 1) Road Captain Rob Schroeder and 2) Member at Large Alan Mevis have agreed to stay on in their positions for another year. If there… Read More
The four members at large have few board responsibilities, but their presence is important. The perfect combination of members at large is diverse: representing the fast, the slow, the weekend, and the weekday riders. We would like members at large who ride enough that they are hearing complaints… Read More
Wear a helmet! Those are the parting words, repeated too many times to count, over the past 25 years of NW Bicycle Safety Council’s history here in the Portland metro area. Safety, particularly in the form of wearing properly fitted helmets, has been our passion. Bicycle safety is not a… Read More
A motorist opens the driver door right in front of you. You run into the door if you can’t stop in time, or you swerve into traffic. This kind of crash is more common than you might think. How to avoid getting car-doored: Stay attentive and scan ahead watching for… Read More
