Bike+Humanity+Portland=🚴Bikelanity, notes from a bike adopter

Bikes for Humanity’s volunteer programming has been drastically limited by the constraints of social distancing. Whereas once individuals could earn-a-bike through helping run the shop, organizing parts, taking in donations, and cleaning, fixing and overhauling bikes, we currently are granting bikes with the option to create blog content about the bike’s impact in the adopter’s life. We are happy to share the following post from Oak, who adopted a bike from us in April after recently moving to Portland.

🚲🚲🚲🚲On a recent misty 🌫 Friday evening, bicyclists wearing blinking safety lights formed a spontaneous, festive parade across the Hawthorne Bridge. The impromptu peloton flashed⚡ by like a line of flickering fireflies.

Careening through streets on a bicycle in Portland, Ore., this time of year can be an easy weekend adventure that mixes showers💦, sunbursts, cafes and a robust bicycle culture. And equipped with a sturdy rain jacket,🧥 booties, fenders and a bike map (a waterproof version that folds to the size of a credit card is handy), visitors can enjoy the city the way locals doIt helps to have a Bike here! maps, published by the regional governing body known as 'Metro’ are available at bike shops and the downtown visitors center. A mapping program, found at byCycle.org, can help visitors pick the best biking route to markets, galleries, museums or other destinations.

Bikes can also be very helpful during a global pandemic. Such as Covid19.

With the "new world order" in place at 6 feet apart that doesn't stop us bikers from getting place to place safely while maintaining the "New World order".

Bikes for Humanity has changed my life drastically with this wonderful bike they have passed on to me it beats my old 2007 car / bucket 🚗🚘 that gave me problems every other day. This Bike is outstanding saving me time, money, and headaches.  

People were amazingly generous and trusting, of their trip, adding that it helped me gain a new appreciation for the commitment to bicycling in Portland. It’s not unusual to see women riding through the winter in skirts and knee-high boots, followed by athletes training in winter riding clothing, ahhh it's Portland they’re "Weird" THANKS BIKES FOR HUMANITY YALL ARE THE BEST!!!