4 Truths of Small Town Bicycle Tourism
While doing interviews for our new bicycle tourism podcast, a few interesting themes have emerged. Many of them we have come to understand through intuition, but now have confirmation from some primary sources. 1. Small…
BikeTourism RoundUp – May 25th, 2016
We’re going to start a new weekly feature on PLP with a roundup of bicycle tourism related news. We always have our ears to the ground with interesting developments with how communities and destinations are…
Bicycling Presentations: Seattle, Washington and Henderson, Nevada
We are doing A LOT of traveling in May! We’ve got two presentations coming up in the next week that are free and open to the public. We always love chatting and grabbing beers with…
What’s the BEST ride in Iowa?
We need your help Iowa readers! We visited Iowa last year and got a small sampling of some of the riding possibilities in the state. RAGBRAI is synonymous with bicycling in Iowa, but we want…
Rode Trip: Pedaling in Prineville
Bend, OR is generally considered Central Oregon’s bicycle capital. It has a great cycling culture, plethora of bike shops, and easy access to both mountain bike trails and great road rides. However, this past weekend…
Video: Cycling the Southwest
One of our favorite things about the work we do, is visiting new bicycling destinations. As the idea of bicycle tourism catches on, more towns and cities are becoming aware of the great natural bicycling…
Rode Trip: Burns Road Loop
This weekend, despite very uninviting weather, we made our way to Vernonia for another gravel recon ride with some members of Travel Oregon’s Gravel Working Group. The goal of these gatherings, aside from pedaling on…
UPDATED: Some Instagram Experiments
Over the last five years the ways we try to tell a story have changed. At first it was purely words and photography, then a few (really) rough videos to more polished work as our…
Pedal the rails in Eastern Oregon!
A few months ago we took a little sojourn out to Eastern Oregon to capture some interesting bicycle tourism stories out there. We visited with Kim and his wife Anita, who use to own Mountain…
#Biketourism: Transit, Tourism and the Tualatin Valley Scenic Bikeway
The last of the Scenic Bikeway videos we filmed last year has been released! The Tualatin Valley Scenic Bikeway is unique in that it is in Portland’s backyard and is probably the most easily accessible…