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A whole lot of individuals donned their best – or most eccentric – garb and headed to Colonel Summers Park Saturday evening for Pedalpalooza’s annual Bike Promenade. This occasion, which was hosted by the Portland chapter of the Useless Child Bike Membership for the second 12 months in a row, capped off the primary month of Bike Summer season 2022. It was the proper occasion to epitomize the vitality of the summer time to date: enthusiastic, bizarre and barely revelrous.
I requested a number of attendees how they thought Bike Promenade compares to their highschool dance, and everybody was resoundingly clear that this occasion is way superior. At Bike Promenade, you get all of the enjoyable of dressing up, however you don’t have to bop with a bunch of sweaty 17-year-olds in a highschool health club.
Our huge group of well-dressed cyclists travelled all the way down to the Springwater Hall to hitch a dance occasion alongside the Willamette River. Eric Thornburg, who has been killing the sport photographing Pedalpalooza rides, took everybody’s promenade photographs, after which the true debauchery started: a lube wrestling competitors that rivaled the joy of any sporting occasion I’ve ever seen.
“I believed I’d be above watching the lube wrestling, however one thing about it was primal and unattainable to look away from,” one observer advised me. I agreed: after I set out for the night, this isn’t what I used to be anticipating!
I additionally anticipated perhaps 40 individuals or so and was shocked when a number of hundred confirmed up (it’s my first Pedalpalooza, and apparently it is a common turnout for Bike Promenade).
Although this occasion transcended past a mere bike journey, I feel the oddness of all of it reveals how versatile and distinctive Portland’s bike scene is. Come for the biking, keep to look at individuals slipping and sliding in a child pool, dancing collectively in public, and giving Hulk Hogan a run for his cash with their wrestling expertise. You by no means know what you’re going to get at a Pedalpalooza journey.
Keep in mind: there are two extra months of Pedalpalooza, and plenty of extra alternatives to search out your self someplace as unusual and thrilling because the Bike Promenade dance flooring.
See a full gallery of wonderful promenade photographs by Eric Thornburg right here. View the official Pedalpalooza Bike Summer season calendar right here.
Taylor has been BikePortland’s employees author since November 2021. She has additionally written for Road Roots and Eugene Weekly. Contact her at taylorgriggswriter@gmail.com
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