New passageway at Portland Art Museum! My opa was a preeminent Rembrandt art historian—in Den Haag & Groningen—but we all spent a lot of time in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam—it has a BIG bikeway, but this little guy has a similar vibe. Ride it w/ @thestreettrust.org on Jan 1: thestreettrust.org/NYDR

Celebrated my Surly Big Dummy’s 14th birthday today 🎉 familyride.us/2025/12/03/h...

Please give if you can - between Trump and Drazan, the GOP is doing everything they can to dismantle transportation funding for anything but highways in Oregon. The Street Trust REALLY needs your support in this end of year giving campaign.

Here to admit that it’s easier to tote the Shift bike racks with my big trailer vs my Big Dummy. Hope to see you all (and your bike locked up to one of these racks) at @thestreettrust.org Alice Awards tmw night 🎉 I started with racks on both sides of the bike, but that only lasted a few blocks 😬

Chainring grease tattoos on the inside of your right leg are cool, but typical. Loading up to bag-and-drag™️ gave me these beauts. ⛓️🖼️

“Calzone: A pizza turnover.” -Mariolino’s, Vernonia, OR 🍕🙃 Calzone: The _best_ rear rack to-go food for a trailside flat fix. -me

Mere minutes into our visit to Los Angeles: bikes! Detrained the Amtrak Coast Starlight and grabbed the Blue Line only to have 20 BMX bikes board at the next stop 😍 Appreciate the unintentional warm welcome, 41 Thursday!

A four-bike day merits documentation: 1. Trailer bike for a work errand (hot bike-on-bike action) 2. Single speed to the gym (and post-gym burritos) 3. Bullitt bakfiets to fetch a sick kid 4. My bb og mamabike for groceries

I’m phoning it in for #30daysofbiking yet again. It was another day I didn’t get out all day so I took a nighttime spin around the neighborhood (third day doing this). I’m going to run out of well-lit photo spots at the neighborhood market.

Oh hey, happy #30daysofbiking! I’m already behind—I forgot to Strava 1.2 miles this morning to the orthodontist and back (there with a kid, back without since the bus was better for the trek to school) so manual math it is! Just like the old days. And my pink portrait wall is now white, sigh.

Brompton fits perfectly in a little CVS shopping cart 💅

Raced my brother to Venice Beach and back and won! 💪 This is the Santa Monica workout: rent heavy clunky beach cruiser, add heavy clunky tag-along, add spirited nephew, don’t raise or tighten loose saddle, and goooooooooo!

Brompton on the move! Bus -> Amtrak -> light rail -> plane -> bus -> 🌴 A little more convoluted than necessary with a kid drop-off in Seattle, but every leg was an adventure despite very few pedal strokes so far, and now it’s family time!

Someday (but not today!) I’ll let my Romanceür make friends w/o butting in” Eh. My beloved Straggler was stolen & this is the 3rd bike I’ve tried to replace it with. Doesn’t carry as much. But hey, my dog died (don’t worry: she was old and had a good run!) so now I can use the front basket for gear”

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Car-free mom taxi kiddo pickup 🚲🚲. It’s hard to tell via phone pic, but there are idling parent cars as far as the eye can see out on the street. But there’s also one other student bike at the racks 😊

30 seconds after I took this snap my bike fell off the hook 😬 It hung on fine for its other two MAX rides & its FX (bendy bus with interior racks) ride so I’m not sure what happened. The strap is blocking the view of the hook, but I don’t think I mis-hung it. Feel free to diagnose in the comments.

Every bike is a grocery bike…though this particular grocery bike means I’ve got tortillas tucked inside my sweatshirt and produce riding in my rain jacket hood.

TIL when dudes shout “Nice rig!” and “I like that set-up!” you know they’re talking about the cargo bike, but when they yell “Nice bike!” there’s a chance they’re referencing one of the lil bikes. 4th pic is my modified left turn in the ONEMART parking lot to prevent my trailing wheels from tangling

🖐️ Any other IKEA bag fans out there? So affordable and good-enough for keeping precious cargo dry. In the bags the way to work: portable speaker, projector, laptop; and on the way home: enormous pizza. #FRAKTA #STORSTOMMA

Winter Light Festival: WeBike Ride to LED Drag Show for WTFNB+ and Allies @thestreettrust.org @familyride.bsky.social

First time using a pannier on this bike! (Which I’m borrowing from my kiddo and originally got from @mujozen.bsky.social ). My quiet roads are slushy and slippery so I mostly took the arterials I’d otherwise avoid.

I biked Pixie’s 🐶🌈 pet ramp to work to donate it to Secondhand Pet Supply and they can sell it to a new old little pup. This is only the second time I’ve daisy-chained my two Xtracycle Utility Belt extender cargo straps to hold something so big.

This is me and one of my absolute favorite people, Marley Blonsky! She cofounded a nonprofit called All Bodies on Bikes and starred in a film of that same name. I’m so excited that Portland is launching a local ABOB chapter!!!

Update on the TriMet WES Commuter Rail for all its new fans: apparently I was on one of the two backup trains last Friday so the bike car is not the norm & runs only once every 2 months. Here’s the usual single car with 2 bike hooks and a couple bike straps that share space with the accessible area.

Sportworks Apex 3 🤯 be still my beating heart! I miss these three-bike racks from my Seattle days riding King County Metro. Seen here on the SMART Transit 1X Wilsonville to Salem. (Note: these racks are clunky af, especially when users don’t treat them gently, but I still love ‘em!)

Yesterday was my first time on @trimet.bsky.social WES commuter rail and it’s nice!!! The bike car is amazing! I wonder if it fills up on non-Fridays in warmer months.

Portland, OR -> Salem, OR: 6 years ago via pedal power, yesterday via light rail + commuter rail + bus.

Pro tip: a ride to Lauretta Jean’s for a piece of pie can easily turn into a piece of pie on the spot *and* pie to go so best to bring a cargo bike.

The way I just ran to the mailbox to pick up my copy of “Urban Cycling” by Madi Carlson.

Feeling wimpy so rather than bike 30 minutes to a dr appt, I biked 10 min + light rail 5 min + bike 5 more min. The portion I skipped was a stretch of multi-use path, but I still got the other perks of this trip: one block of red (red! Like in the Netherlands!) bike path and covered bike parking.

Bike trailer day! 40 helmets from Trauma Nurses Talk Tough for @thestreettrust.org 😊 🪖 This is a cool rig, but it wasn’t the coolest vehicle out on the road today—I saw a car decorated like Lightning McQueen! Ka-chow! Granted, I might be biased having seen the movie 9999999999999 times.

The bike rack at Bi-Mart🏅 Up a step and too close to the wall. Note: sometimes there’s room to get to the rack from the other side and skip the step (like today, but barely!)…but usually not.

🚨 Cute bike lane art alert! I love the plethora of Bike to Books Digital Design Contest installations. This is the 2022 winner in the 3rd to 6th Grade division called “Mushrooms and Why They Matter” by Poppy Davis near the Hollywood Library. 📸 taken from standing atop my cargo deck, of course!

Novel use of HIGH WATER signs: big puddle! This spot always collects water after a rain, though not enough to garner its own lake name (RIP “Lake Woodward”) but this is the first I’ve seen it sporting warning labels. If anything, I imagine *more* toddlers in rain suits will start jumping in it!

I didn’t go to any @picklesbaseball.bsky.social games last season so I wasn’t sure these 12 bike staples (next to the 3 original ones) at the Walk were new, but Instagram commenters tell me they are, so I oughta share here, too! Play ball! 🏟️🥒🚲

😬 I’ve had my Brompton 8 years and don’t use it often, but it’s such a great little bike! And I love loaning it out to friends who want to travel with it.

1, 2, 3, it’s a bike dinghy! I left my Big Dummy at work yesterday after leading @thestreettrust.org New Year’s Day Ride so I could walk over to the train station to pick up one of my kiddos and bus home together. So today I rode my little Brompton over so I could easily bring them both home ⛴️

Ah, LA. Your greenways are not what I’d call greenways. But I had a great week biking around, though I had to take to the sidewalk a few times on big, busy streets.

Discovering 9 blocks of car-free State Street in Santa Barbara was amazing 🤯! I hope it stays like this, it’s so well utilized. When I was a kid, the 101 still had a stoplight at State Street. How things change!

While visiting fam in LA last week I took a day trip to my hometown, Santa Barbara! Nice to be back on the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner.

Los Angeles is always sunny! I packed a week worth of shorts, tank tops, and flip flops in my little Brompton bag. My niece and nephew took me biking on the LA River Bike Path…and it rained on us 😬. They were such troupers and I apologized profusely for bringing the Portland weather with me.

I just got back from a week visiting family in Los Angeles. The week between Christmas and New Year’s is the best time for biking in LA—it’s so nice and quiet—so I brought my Brompton folding bike with. First up: biking to the MAX light rail station in Portland.

Found the Santa Clones! I hadn’t planned on visiting this year, but they’re conveniently sited between work at Lloyd Center and picking up Pixie’s ashes at the pet urgent care clinic in Montavilla. See @chriswillis on Insta for proper location clues and go see them yourself!

Hey! I’m leading this ride (for the 4th year in a row 😊) and if you’re in Portland you should join us! www.thestreettrust.org/programs/eve...

My road bike is back from a tune-up with new HUGE tires. It came with 700x23, then when a friend of a friend borrowed it and got doored (he was fine, but the front wheel wasn’t) I switched to 25s, and now it’s got 28s! Props to Something Cycles for tracking down such chonky new shoes.

🚲🚌🚈🚲 to visit an old friend passing through a neighboring city with my low-carrying-capacity bike saw me riding home with a burrito stowed inside my sweatshirt 😂 (Fun fact: that’s how I’d bike my first little dog around in college when I didn’t have a basket bike!)

What started with a FedEx driver telling me my bike looks old ended with me convincing him he should keep his Xtracycle his kids have outgrown bc it’s great for other things, like groceries. 🤝🛒🚲

It looks like my road bike has a reverse mullet (party gravel wheel in the front, business road wheel in the back), but it’s just the angle! Bag-and-dragging™️ 1.25 bikes (complete road bike on the right, touring bike’s wheel on the left) to Something Cycles for fixing.

I’m not a Christmas celebrator, but I used to get a tree just so I could bring it to the big bike bonfire every January. In Seattle we’d bike 7 hilly miles to Swansons Nursery for trees + camel + train and here in Portland we’d hit a no-name U-Cut place 4 flat miles from us in Milwaukie. 🎄🔥🎉