Saturday, July 27, 2024
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Sat, Jul 27, 2024, 2:00 PM
Gather at the roundabout, admire each other costumes, ride at 2:30
4:00 PM
End location: Peninsula Park
Do you have a favorite Bikeway Character? Come dressed up as your chosen piece of thermoplastic street art and let's get together & bike about it! We've come a long way from the days of rogue city workers altering the ubiquitous bike lane symbol into something cheeky. Until recently, there was a whole team dedicated to bringing school kid's winning designs to life on our streets! Full colour unicorns, lipsticked slugs, Gloria Steinem quotes... We'll meander around town appreciating some old & new road art, try to snap photos with our inspirations, and reminisce about Sharrow Characters long paved over. Perhaps most importantly, by showing our love for these silly art instillations we can try to convince PBOT to BRING BACK the Bike to Books Coloring Contest that quietly ended in 2022. This year we're exploring a bit of Southeast, moving Northeast and into North Portland. We've created a 9ish mile route with some climbs and some descents as we try to collect as many sharrows characters as we can between the Ladd Circle & Peninsula Park. Stick with us for a photobooth, spoke card making station, and costume prizes at the end! Need costume inspiration? tinyurl.com/bikelaneart will take you to a map of sharrows characters I've logged from across Portland, feel free to email me any other I've missed - let's crowdsource this collection! Also @bicycleroutefound is a GREAT follow on instagram with *mostly* local-to-Portland art on the streets.
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