Dave Knows: Portland

Despite the Fall-like weather, Portland hasn’t given up on Summer. This approaching weekend is a case in point. After you stop by the PGE Park box office at 10am Thursday to pick up your Timbers playoff tickets, you’ll have this to look forward to:
Thursday
Your playoff-bound Timbers celebrate their final regular season match at [...]

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Saturday
New Belgium’s Tour de Fat traveling show is coming to Waterfront Park on Saturday.
There’s a bike ride from 11am-noon, and a “Revival” from noon-6pm, where there will be performances by The Yard Dogs Road Show, Circus Contraption, The Reals, and Portland’s own Sprockettes and March Fourth Marching Band.
(The event looks amusing, but they have one [...]

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There’s a post today on the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) blog suggesting bike valet parking at PGE Park.
A couple years ago this very idea came up at BikePortland.org. And festivals and events around town have been providing valet bike parking for years; why not a permanent facility at PGE Park and the Rose [...]

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Portland’s bike-friendly culture gets some love in the Portland Mercury’s big-sister weekly The Stranger. Erica C. Barnett writes in the paper’s blog (which for some reason they call SLOG):

In Seattle, when a bike lane threatened to take out a few feet of road that could otherwise be used by cars, businesses put pressure on [...]

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A couple years ago on my way home from work I found my apartment building completely enclosed by throngs of people and hay bales and crazy spandexed dudes on bikes zipping down Broadway the wrong way on that hill from Jefferson to Madison. It was the Twilight Criterium.
Last year I knew about the race [...]

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