It's Thursday

  And time for the Thursday Night Ride!  A local bike shop sponsors a weekly ride on Thursday night.  It's an eclectic mix of fat tired bikes, stretched bikes, single speeds, tall bikes, track bikes, and of course a lot of fixed gear bikes. The ride wouldn't start until 8PM, so I went for a little preride.

It was a warm day, it eventually reached 103.  I just tootled along.

I rested in the shade of a tree and watched crews put up tents for next weekend's Bite of Oregon, and Red Bull will once again be hosting Flugtag as well.

The Tilicum Crossing is getting closer to being open, though still not open for bikes yet.

Before long it was time to make my way back to the Salmon Street Springs, the meeting point for tonight's ride.  I was only there a few minutes before likely candidates began gathering.

By the time was shoved off, we numbered well over 100 strong. All lanes were bike lanes.

Earlier in the day it was announced that we would ride to the St John's Bridge to show support for the #ShellNo protesters.  By the time our ride started the police, coast guard, and fire department had swept the protesters from the scene.  We still rode to Cathedral Park.  As we rode along the bluff the sun set, and the full moon greeted us.

We arrived at Cathedral Park and spent some time on the beach below the arches of the St John's Bridge.

I didn't spend too long there before pedaling back to downtown Portland.

It is pretty bad when my 228 miles for the month ties for the third highest monthly total, and there's still one day of July left!

.........road bike..........rollers.........mtb..........lifecycle.......total
  Today............51..............0...............0...............0.................51
 Jan...............765...............0...............0...............0...............765
Feb................248...............0...............0...............0................248
March...........183.................0................0..............0................183
April..............228...............0................0...............0 ................228
May................200................0...............0...............0.................200
June................199.................0..............26...............0.................199 July.................228................0...............0.................0...............228
Total............2018...............0...............26...............0..............2064