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The Pedalshift Project 148: Riding Your Bike to the Airport

We kick off the year with a question people ask me before every trip – are you riding your bike to the airport? On this episode… tips on how to do it! Plus – a major tour announcement, a gaggle of Pedalshift winter meetups and the next live show announcement! Read more

Pedalshift Holiday Spectacular 2018

The Pedalshift Project 147: Pedalshift Holiday Spectacular 2018

The annual Pedalshift Holiday Spectacular is a  year-end chat with Aaron and Guthrie from The Sprocket Podcast on the best things in biking and the podcast, a chat about traversing the Darien Gap plus looking forward to 2019.
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Pedalshift Video: Oregon Coast Loop, Part 3

Part 3 of my Oregon Loop tour… from Portland to the California border and back by bike and transit on the Oregon Coast. In this part, I reach the Oregon/California border, but still have to go all… the… way… back… northbound.

This is the video companion to the audio journals in Pedalshift Project episodes 131, 132, 133, and 134.

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Pedalshift Video: Oregon Coast Loop, Part 2

Part 2 of my Oregon Loop tour… from Portland to the California border and back by bike and transit on the Oregon Coast. In this part, I ride the iconc Seven Devils in the section between Florence and Port Orford, Oregon. Check out Part 1!

This is the video companion to the audio journals in Pedalshift Project episodes 131, 132, 133, and 134.

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Pedalshift Video: Oregon Coast Loop, Part 1

Part 1 of my Oregon Loop tour… from Portland to the California border and back by bike and transit on the Oregon Coast. In this part, I hop muuuuuultiple buses to Newport and run into a few snags that only a bike can get by.

This is the video companion to the audio journals in Pedalshift Project episodes 131, 132, 133, and 134.

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The Pedalshift Project 132: Oregon Coast Loop, Chapter 2

Days 2 and 3 of my trip took me from Florence, Oregon to Port Orford, Oregon including some stunning coastline, a big bridge to North Bend, unusual headwinds for the time of year, an odd late night experience at a disappointing campground, my favorite climb of the entire coast and much more.
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The Pedalshift Project 131: Oregon Coast Loop, Chapter 1

The Oregon Coast is a hilly, foggy, amazing adventure that is a part of the larger Pacific Coast bicycle touring route. It is almost exclusively on US Highway 101, with a few deviations I’ll mention. My plan was to combine local transit with bike touring to do a loop of the coast, tag the California welcome sign and return to Portland, relatively unscathed. On this edition of the Journal we follow along on Days 0 and 1 of the adventure as I ride the busses from Portland to Newport, and get rolling to Florence, Oregon.

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