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Ride bikes together with kids and families, from Laurelhurst Park to the North Park Blocks for the start of Pedalpalooza's Kick-Off ride!June 1st at 5pm is the big Kick-Off bike ride for Pedalpalooza Bike Summer 2024. We will meet at 3:15 pm to ride there together at a fun, kid-friendly pace.
This is a slow ride, paced for kids on bikes and parents on cargo bikes. We’ll ride 3 miles from the meadow in Laurelhurst park between the bathrooms and the lake, to the playground to in the North Park Blocks in NW Portland at Park and Everett, which will be the start of the Pedalpalooza ride an hour later at 5pm.
We will roll out at 3:30pm and should arrive Downtown at about 4pm, so you have time pm to pick up t-shirts and pennants. Then at 5pm you can also join us if you want to ride the whole Kick-Off Ride, along with other families and kids. The kickoff ride will take us over the Broadway bridge and back to Laurelhurst Park to finish a loop. But that ride will be almost 5 miles long and has several hills, so younger kids may need to switch to a trailer or cargo bike with a grown-up.
While our first part of the ride is only 3 miles and almost all downhill (except for the Burnside bridge) and will be fine for K to 3th grade, if you do the whole loop it will be almost 10 miles total, so appropriate for 5th grade plus, or younger kids who are strong fast confident rider.
This first part of the ride will be suitable for young 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-18985
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Laurelhurst Park, 3587 SE Oak St, Portland, OR 97214, United States,Portland, Oregon
