That Fun Thing We Do Every JuneIn 2002, Portland hosted Bike Summer, and it was great! So, every summer since then, we've had another festival which is now called Pedalpalooza. Click on one of the following years to see its calendar of events. |
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| 2012 | Next! Pedalpalooza 2011 will be June 7-30. That's right, we're expanding to 3+ weeks of bike fun! The big World Naked Bike Ride will be Saturday June 16 at 10pm. The Multnomah County Bike Fair will be Sunday June 30. Please add your own events now! | |
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| 2011 | About 270 events -- slightly less than 2010. The big naked ride was also slightly down, due to weather fears. Be brave! Be ambitious! Try harder in 2012! | |
| 2010 | We had roughly 300 events, and very strong attendance. The naked ride alone had somewhere between 7000 and 12,500 riders. | |
| 2009 | In 2009 the number of events was down a tiny bit, but the number of people at each event seemed to double. One highlight is that we had about 5000 people for the World Naked Bike Ride... or nearly 1% of Portlanders! | |
| 2008 | Vastly larger than previous years. The Portland Mercury increased their involvement. Shift hosted the International Toward Carfree Cities Conference. The City of Portland had its first Sunday Parkways (Ciclovia). Soaring fuel pricess increased interest in bikes. The result: 185 events in the printed calendar, and 197 events in the online calendar (not counting repeating events). Larger crowds all around. Wonderful. I'm still sleepy. | |
| 2007 | The printed calendar had 130 events, and the online calendar ended up with 140. That's may sound a hair's breadth smaller than PP2006, but actually most of the events attracted far more people in 2007. Yea Bikes! Go Team! Rah! Rah! Ride Reports (PDF) | |
| 2006 | The printed calendar had 133 events, and the online calendar ended up with 143 (taking cancellations into account). Which was your favorite? | |
| 2005 | That Pedalpalooza was huge. The printed calendar had 95 events, but the online calendar, which could be updated throughout the festival, ended up with 114 events. | |
| 2004 | The first year that it was called "Pedalpalooza" and the first with a 16-day Thursday-to-Saturday schedule. It had 68 events. | |
| 2003 | Mini BikeSummer. 49 events. Apparently Portland was the first (and so far only?) BikeSummer site to continue the festival on following years. This first year, it was organized in cooperation with Zoobomb. (A brief history of Shift and Zoobomb.) | |
| 2002 | BikeSummer! In August, not June? Wow, the things we forget. 97 events. | |
