October 6, 2009 – 4:40 pm
Bike Gallery owner Jay Graves recently attended the annual bike show Interbike in Las Vegas. The following is his report of the event, with a focus on Bike Advocacy.
I caught this priceless picture on the way back from my first day at Interbike. Watching two bike cops ticketing a Lamborghini on Las Vegas Boulevard during [...]
Seems like every day I meet amazing people at work; customers, vendors, cyclists at events all have pretty interesting stories to tell if I take time to listen. But one individual stands out — with one of the most interesting and memorable stories — and he is Alastair Humphreys. A few years back I had [...]
A couple months ago, I undertook my biennial pilgrimage to my native country of Belgium, visiting family and friends and, as usual, catching up on savoring the best chocolate and beer on the planet. For the geographically challenged, Belgium is a little European country wedged in between France and the Netherlands, and also bordering Germany [...]
Carol DeLancey is a Bike Gallery customer who grew up in Oregon, but moved two years ago to Loulé, a small city in the Algarve region of Portugal. She is a Cycle Oregon regular and is helping her partner train for this year’s event in Portugal’s incredible sunny weather. Recently, Carol watched the Pro Tour [...]
December 3, 2008 – 2:46 pm
Rolling through lush pastures and eucalyptus forests in the countryside of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
This is the second installment of some impressions I jotted down - and snapped away - during a recent bike vacation in Brazil.
Brazil is a huge country (larger than all lower-48 states combined and occupying nearly half of the South American continent), [...]
November 12, 2008 – 6:30 pm
Fall is that time of the year when Portland-area cyclists are coping with the changing weather pattern (read: rain, rain, and yet more rain) in multiple ways: the most dapper ones among us just slap on their rain gear and pedal on with true grit. Others enter into a form of “bike hibernation”, limiting their [...]