Bike Ride to Sunday Parkways - Kidical Mass PDX

Name: Bike Ride to Sunday Parkways - Kidical Mass PDX
Start: 2024-06-16T11:45:00-07:00
End: 2024-06-16T16:15:00-07:00
Location: Irving Park

Schedule

Sun Jun 16 2024 at 11:45 am to 04:15 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Irving Park | Portland, OR

Ride bikes together with Kidical Mass PDX from Irving Park to the Northeast Cully Sunday Parkways open streets event.
Sunday Parkways provides a car-free open streets celebration. Ride bike together with us to make it fun!
This is a slow ride, paced for kids on bikes and parents on cargo bikes. At 11:45am we’ll ride 3.1 miles from Irving Park playground to Sunday Parkways route and down to Fernhill Park, where there will be food vendors, water and restrooms. We should arrive at about 12:35. After a break there from 12:35pm to 1:15pm for lunch, you can also join us if you want to ride the rest of the Sunday Parkways route together, 6 miles total with a couple of stops on the way at K Park and Wellington Park, or you can enjoy the car-free streets at your own pace.
If you do the whole loop and go back to Irving Park, it will be 11 miles total. The first 1.5 miles is gradually uphill. Then if you continue the rest of the route after Fernhill park there are 2 more gradually hills on the way to Wellington park, with some gradual downhill sections in between. We should finish the Sunday Parkways route around 3:45 pm and be back at Irving park by 4:15 pm
This will be suitable for school-age bike riders who can pedal their own bike uphill in a straight line. Kids should wear a helmet, be able to ride in a straight line without training wheels, start and stop, and follow instructions. Cargo bikes, tandems, trailers and tag-a-longs are great for younger or less confident kids, or in case kids get tired of pedaling. Adults without kids can also join the ride as corkers to help with traffic safety.
We’ll ride together as a group, rain or shine, because kids are traffic too!
https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-19091