A Collection of Fun Rides
Shop Rides and Fun Rides
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
This past Sunday, 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.
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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!
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!
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!).
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”