I just wrapped up my time as BikePortland.org family biking columnist. Writing the weekly column has been a blast. I’ve profiled biking families in Portland, promoted kid-friendly events (lots of Kidical Mass PDX events, but other stuff, too), and written about just about everything imaginable. Here are links to all my posts in one spot!
- Family Biking: Madi Carlson, signing off – 2019/11/19
- Family Biking: Kids + leaves = fun! – 2019/11/13
- Family Biking: Gladys Bikes’ Saddle Library is the place to go for mom butts – 2019/11/05
- Family Biking: How to fit two tweens on a family bike (the end) – 2019/10/29
- Family Biking: Thoughts on carrying tweens and biking less – 2019/10/22
- Family Biking: Two tweens on a family bike (part two) – 2019/10/15
- Family Biking: Intersections are scary, until you wiggle around them – 2019/10/08
- Family Biking: Join us for the Kidical Mass Pumpkin Farm Ride – 2019/10/01
- Family Biking: Frog Bikes are a quality, lightweight option for young riders – 2019/09/24
- Family Biking: Volunteer for new middle-schooler community rides – 2019/09/17
- Family Biking: Here’s how to ace Walk + Roll to School Day – 2019/09/10
- Family Biking: Two tweens on a family bike (part one) – 2019/09/03
- Family Biking: Food cart pods are almost the perfect spot for bikes, kids, and pets – 2019/08/27
- Family Biking: Go beyond parks and campgrounds with these bike camp hacks – 2019/08/20
- Family Biking: The ABCs of a summer bucket list – 2019/08/13
- Family Biking: Time to start planning your bike-to-school route – 2019/08/06
- Family Biking: You can’t go home again, but bicycling helps – 2019/07/31
- Family Biking: Reassuring relatives about biking with baby – 2019/07/23
- Review: ‘Motherload’ film gives cargo bikes their due – 2019/07/16
- Join us for ‘Motherload’ film screening and bike parade this Thursday – 2019/07/09
- Meet Skip Spitzer; a carfree, climate-change-fighting, single dad – 2019/07/02
- Family Biking: Oxbow Regional Park is a great bike camping destination – 2019/06/25
- Family Biking: Join Kidical Mass for a weekend camping trip to Oxbow Park – 2019/06/18
- These summer bike camps still have a spot for your kid – 2019/06/11
- Family Biking: How to Pedalpalooza with the little ones – 2019/06/04
- In front, in back, or at your side? Where should kids ride? – 2019/05/28
- Family Biking: We all fall down – 2019/05/21
- Feeling the strength of moms on Mother’s Day – 2019/05/14
- Grab the kiddos and get ready for the Gorge Pedal – 2019/05/07
- No school on Bike to School Day, let’s rally with ‘Red for Ed’ instead – 2019/04/30
- 300 people turned out for the annual Kidical Mass Easter Ride! – 2019/04/23
- Family Biking: Join us for the annual Kidical Mass Easter Ride – 2019/04/16
- Family Biking: Here’s how to bike to the cherry trees in Waterfront Park – 2019/04/02
- Review: Surly’s ‘Big Easy’ smooths out family biking and cargo-hauling – 2019/03/26
- Family Biking: A tire pumping primer – 2019/03/19
- Family Biking: First impressions of the Surly Big Easy electric cargo bike – 2019/03/12
- Family Biking: Author and illustrator Alison Farrell comes to Storytime March 10th – 2019/03/05
- Family Biking Column: My recap of the Worst Day of the Year Ride – 2019/02/27
- Carfree travel with kids: Taking the family around L.A. by transit – 2019/02/26
- Biking through Vancouver BC’s protected intersection – 2019/02/19
- How to throw a winter bike-to-school party – 2019/02/12
- Family Biking: Learning to ride a pedal bike – 2019/02/05
- Family Biking: No, you don’t need an e-bike (but you’d love having one) – 2019/01/29
- Family biking profile: For the Kurtens, the right bikes helped them go carfree – 2019/01/22
- Join the family biking fun at Kidical Mass planning meeting – 2019/01/15
- Family Biking: Join us for a new ‘Storytime’ event series – 2019/01/08
- Family Biking: Share your new bike stories! – 2018/12/27
- Family biking profile: A new(ish) rider and her toddler take to the streets – 2018/12/18
- Family Biking: Beyond mama bear rage and toward healthier responses to bad drivers – 2018/12/11
- Family biking: Our annual tree-by-bike tradition – 2018/12/04
- Saddle height hints, ballast before babes, and other tips for settling into family biking – 2018/11/27
- Family Biking: Come join us at Cranksgiving – 2018/11/20
- Family Biking: Get ready for puddle season – 2018/11/14
- Family Biking: Let’s (not) talk about safety – 2018/11/06
- Family Biking: Beat winter blahs with a plan to pedal more – 2018/10/30
- Family Biking: How straps can unlock your bike’s carrying capacity – 2018/10/23
- Family Biking: How to get Halloween night right – 2018/10/16
- Family Biking: What’s your favorite rain gear? (I asked my kids too) – 2018/10/09
- Family Biking: It’s bike-to-pumpkins season! Here’s where to go – 2018/10/02
- Family Biking: Time to plan for Walk and Roll to School Day – 2018/09/25
- Family Biking: Can’t ride? What’s your backup plan? – 2018/09/18
- Family Biking: Join us for Kidical Massive this Saturday (9/15) – 2018/09/11
- Family Biking: A bike light primer for the approaching season – 2018/09/04
- Family Biking: How was the first day of school? – 2018/08/28
- Family Biking: Get ready to bike to school – 2018/08/21
- Family Biking: Sidewalk cycling can be a savior – 2018/08/14
- When moms escape: Tackling the unpaved Trask River Road route to the coast – 2018/08/10
- Family Biking: A cautionary tale of kids riding too-small bikes – 2018/08/07
- Family biking profile: Elizabeth Decker has rediscovered the fun – 2018/08/01
- Family biking: What type of infrastructure is important to you? – 2018/07/24
- Family biking profile: Sara Schooley is sure you’ll like e-bikes too – 2018/07/17
- Family biking profile: Kathleen Youell moved to Portland to live carfree – 2018/07/10
- Family Biking: Preludes to pedaling their own set of wheels – 2018/07/03
- Grab the kids, load up your bike, and cool off at a local watering hole – 2018/06/26
- Family Biking: Make this the summer you pedal to camp with the kiddos – 2018/06/19
- Finding a family-friendly Pedalpalooza – 2018/06/13
- Family Biking: Taking kids and bikes on MAX light rail – 2018/06/05
- Family biking profile: Ali Reis and her daughter Lark – 2018/05/29
- Sunday Parkways is perfect for families: Here’s how to get the most out of it – 2018/05/22
- Talking about family biking (and why I want to share your stories) – 2018/05/15
- On the exhaustion of motherhood and why I want to bike with other families on Mother’s Day – 2018/05/08
- Snacks, shade and seven other ways to make this your best spring ever – 2018/05/01
- Bluetooth speakers and a “Rolling Jackass”: These are a few of my favorite things – 2018/04/24
- Here’s why more Portlanders don’t bike with their kids – 2018/04/17
- My first Ladd’s 500 – 2018/04/16
- Humans, bike maps, and of course, Google: How to choose family-friendly routes – 2018/04/10
- Come to the Kidical Mass planning meeting and help us build an all-ages bike network – 2018/04/03
- A big, all-ages turnout at annual Kidical Mass Easter ride – 2018/04/02
- What prevents you from biking with your young children? – 2018/03/27
- Family Biking: An introduction to Kidical Mass in Portland – 2018/03/20
- Where to buy used kids’ bikes in Portland – 2018/03/13
- Biking with the family dog – 2018/03/06
- Tips for tackling toddler helmet hesitancy – 2018/02/27
- How to keep little bike passengers cozy in the cold – 2018/02/20
- Here’s how I’ve carried my kids by bike for the past 10 years – 2018/02/13
- Partying on the Worst Day of the Year Ride – 2018/02/12
- Introducing our new Family Biking column by Madi Carlson – 2018/02/06