Tuesday, August 6, 2024
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https://linktr.ee/reign_of_taco_ride
Portland Metropolitan Area (and/or surroundings), Portland, OR
Start/end where you like!
Tacogistics Team
Tue, Aug 6, 2024, 11:00 AM
ALL DAY EVENT!
The idea is simple: Pedalpalooza riders self organize and consume as many tacos as they can over the course of one day (August 6th)! The 1st annual Reign of Taco Ride (June 6, 2023) had 36 active teams and 151 visits. Collectively, we consumed at approximately one half of all of the spots in the metropolitan area! Thanks to all the 2023 taco riders. For 2024, let us do it all over (but eat EVEN MORE tacos)! We love tacos. Portland, OR is fortunate to have hundreds of taco shops. Each shop has it's own menu of tacos on offer so there are literally thousands of tacos available in locations liberally distributed throughout all 6 quadrants of our city. every. single. Day! Roll up and celebrate glorious tacos and appreciate taco makers. Reign of Taco Ride is most excited about supporting local and family owned businesses and hopes you'll take this opportunity to try unfamiliar/new and non-franchised spots. There are so many spots and they're so far apart that no normal Pedalpalooza ride could ever hope to visit each and every one. This ride is unique in that lasts ALL DAY Tuesday August 6th but with NO specific MEET-UP location, ROUTE or END LOCATION. It’s up to you to decide where to roll and what spots to hit! Start and end where you’d like, organize teams of family or friends, or roll solo, but make sure to log the progress of your delicious adventure! Points are awarded for each spot your team frequents, with bonuses for being the 1st party there and/or for eating all the tacos on the menu. Organized chaos is the only way to eat this incredible array of fantastic food. We need whole squadrons of self-propelled taco lovers to realize this collective a'chomp'lishment! We wish you many tasty moments and maximum taco satisfaction. https://tacoapp.verynice.party/ is our custom built interactive online taco-tracker. Log in to register your self/team. Use it as a guide to find spots as well as a log for places you have visited (which will then be marked by a team-colored flag). You are able to include bike-ability and taco reviews, descriptions and photos! This application will be updated (new spots added, and 2023 reviews/flags archived or removed) prior to the 2024 event... The Reign of Taco Ride is the brain child of Joshua Force (currently on a leg of a lifetime bike tour around the world towards Bogota, Columbia). He suggested the idea to Karl Freitag who was initially flabbergasted at how it could ever be accomplished! In part this was a response to all of the local non-ethnic food events (Pizza Week etc.). We thought to loop in Adam Novotny to help us with this puzzling concept. He became our web-wizard: assembling a comprehensive list of locations and developing our, now tried-and-tested, online team-oriented interactive map app! Karl launched a Discord server for communication between taco riders and send us feedback. All the links can be found at: https://linktr.ee/reign_of_taco_ride Reign of Taco Awards ceremony and wrap-up event TBD… in 2023 Bike Portland said: "Each year there’s at least one new ride that captures our imagination. This year I’m very intrigued by the Reign of Taco Ride (6/6) created by the inimitable Joshua Force. With substantial contributions from Karl Freitag he has dreamed up a one-day plan to have bike riders fan out and order at least one taco from every single taco joint in the region. Another member of the taco crew, Adam Novotny, collected an exhaustive list of every taco joint in the city for the location of each cart and cafe. Then he created an interactive taco map with an ability for participants to log in and track their purchases. What an amazing way to celebrate cycling and tacos!"
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