A Collection of Fun Rides
RPDX fills spring, summer and fall with fun shop rides that anybody can join.
Our rides introduce you to other trikers and show off all the fun rides you can later do on your own!!
Shop Rides and Fun Rides
One of our Favorite Rides from the shop to the Oregon City bridge. About 30 miles and 3000 vertical feet. An easy day with (or without) a motor!
Mechanic Paul led folks up Mt. Tabor. On the way down, we stopped at CIBO Pizza and the shop bought the pies!!
Mechanic Paul led folks up and down Willamette river front book ended by the Tilikum and Steel bridges. The ride ended at Hotlips Pizza where RPDX bought the pies!
We had SO much fun at Portland Sunday Parkways Cully. We visited our friends at Shriners and Adaptive Sports NW at their annual adaptive bike clinic. Then, we rode the circuit with Dan and Mae from Spokes Fighting Strokes, Charlie Buchaulter from ATOC racks, Dana Lieberman from Bacchetta Bikes and Mel’s buddy, Doug.
If it looked like we were having a blast, well, it ’cause we were!
Who doesn’t wanna ride a trike on a real racetrack?! C’mon, you know you do!!
Adaptive Sports NW reserved the Portland International Speedway several Monday evenings each summer! Folks brought all manner of human powered cycles to the track to ride!
Wanna try a Catrike on the track? RecumbentPDX brings our own trailer full of trikes at least a couple times each summer! Contact us at the shop to get signed up!
One of our favorite rides starts near Lewis & Clark College, down through three parks – Tryon Creek, George Rogers and Mary S Young – and then across the Willamette on the Mill Street Bridge. Then, back up the Trolley Trail, Springwater Corridor, through Ladds Addition and back to the shop.
If you want to take this ride yourself, here’s the link: https://ridewithgps.com/trips/198404180
The music is Grant Green’s album Feelin’ the Spirit with Herbie Hancock, Billy Higgins, Butch Warren and Garvin Masseaux. It’s a fabulous album. You should queue up the whole thing!
With tickets in hand, Mel, Scott, Paul and Zach rode our trikes to Portland International Raceway to watch the Portland E Prix. The ride was cool. The Race was cool.
Our beat is Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) by US3
RPDX led folks on our first Motor Kit ride of the season. From the store, we transited downtown and up Montgomery to Council Crest Park. We then swung around Fairmont to Hewitt (Mel’s ABSOLUTE favorite Portland Street), across Sylvan and down through Washington Park. After a quick Zoo Bomb, we fueled up on pizza at Oven and Shaker and then headed down to the River Front, across the Steel Bridge and down the Eastbank Esplanade.
Sound like fun? Sorry you missed it? Well, check our Riding Events under -where else” “The Fun Stuff” tab on our website.
The more successful of our birthday rides. A bunch of pals join Mel for his 60th birthday on the Banks-Vernonia Trail. We even saw a rainbow! Stick around for the blooper reel!
It’s Mel’s birthday, so he picks the music and it’s Wes Montgomery (even when it’s NOT his birthday, he picks the music and it’s Wes Montgomery!).
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What a disaster!! It was pouring down rain. It was cold. Everybody was miserable (well, okay, it was just the Californians – who made up the majority of the riders – who’d actually NEVER seen a raindrop before. THEY were miserable. The Oregonians didn’t notice). But, to be inclusive, we ALL turned around. There’s always next year, I guess.
The music is the amazing Mose Allison. If don’t have at least six Mose albums, you should!
On a crisp November afternoon, RPDX and friends rode Catrikes up Mt. Tabor. Rain or Shine, Hot or Cold, Catrikes are a great ride!
Rozina Patkai thrills with Roberto Menescal’s classic O Barquinho -“My Little Boat”
The first shop ride in OVER A YEAR!!! RPDX invited customers and friends to hop their low riders and take a little trip (..take a little trip..) through Ladds Addition, over the Tilikum Crossing, up to the Steel Bridge and back down the Eastside Esplanade and back to the shop. A freight train blocked our path, so we took the elevator at the Gideon Overcrossing Bridge.
We did it all to the steady beats of Doug Linse‘s Low Rider (admit it. you WERE tapping your toes!).
Portland’s city-sponsored Sunday Parkways are among our favorite rides. Customers come to the store for cake and coffee before joining the throng of happy riders!
The music? The stop-you-in-your-tracks voice of Coralie Clement
We played hooky from the store on a gorgeous July afternoon for a a ride up Mt. Tabor followed by an amazing dinner! Trikes and Friends go so well together!
Again, the magic of Coralie Clement ‘s voice
RPDX and Friends had a great ride on Portland Forest Park’s Leif Erikson Trail!
It was NOT a bright sunny sunshinee day. But it was still a wonderful day. La Plata Argentina’s Alma Negra sets the music just right
Wow! What a ride! The Klickitat Trail is right across the Columbia River just waiting for us, so the Trike Guys went for a spin.
The Rigbees provided background!
Maybe the soggiest ride we’ve EVER taken, but that didn’t slow The Trike Guys one little bit! We grabbed the Leif Erikson trailhead at Skyline Drive and down we went!
Ferran Bosch plays us out with….well….. you already know
How about a shop ride down Portland’s Tom McCall Riverfront Park and over the Tilikum Crossing to the Springwater Corridor? Any day for me!
We were in no hurry. Rusty Draper’s classic Up the Lazy River summed up the ride nicely!
Please don’t let the secret out, but Portland has the world’s most perfect fall weather! RPDX and friends took some Catrikes down to Portland’s Waterfront -riding the Tilikum Crossing, then up the west side, back across the Steel Bridge and then down the Eastside Esplanade. We even stopped to say “hi!” to Vera -Portland’s favorite mayor ever!