Saturday, June 1, 2024
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Family Friendly
Kid-paced ride from Laurelhurst Park to the North Park Blocks for the start of the Kick-Off ride
Laurelhurst Park, SE Laurelhurst Pl & SE Ankeny St
Between the bathrooms and the lake
Kidical Mass PDX
Sat, Jun 1, 2024, 3:00 PM
Meet at 3pm, Ride at 3:30pm sharp
4:00 PM
End location: North Park Blocks Playground
Ride bikes together with kids and families, from Laurelhurst Park to the North Park Blocks for the start of Pedalpalooza's Kick-Off ride! This is a slow ride, paced for kids on bikes and parents on cargo bikes. We’ll ride 3 miles from the meadow in Laurelhurst park between the bathrooms and the lake, to the playground to in the North Park Blocks in NW Portland at Park and Everett, which will be the start of the Pedalpalooza ride an hour later at 5pm. We will ride at 3:30pm and should arrive Downtown at about 4pm, so you have time pm to pick up t-shirts and pennants, while kids can use the playground or enjoy other activities. Then at 5pm you can also join us if you want to ride the whole route of the Kick-Off Ride , along with other families and kids at the front of the ride. @pedalpaloozapdx has asked us to ride right up front! That ride will be 4.7 miles long and has several hills, so younger kids may need to switch to a trailer or cargo bike with a grown-up. The kickoff ride will take us over the Broadway bridge, through the Lloyd District, and back up to Laurelhurst Park to finish a loop. While our ride is only 2.9 miles and almost all downhill (except for the Burnside bridge) and will be fine for K to 3th grade, if you do the whole loop along with the Kick-Off Ride it will be almost 9 miles total, so it would be appropriate for 5th grade plus, or younger kids who are strong fast confident riders, to ride their own bike the whole way. Our ride will be suitable for young bike riders who can pedal their own bike uphill in a straight line. Kids should wear a helmet, be able to ride in a straight line without training wheels, start and stop, and follow instructions. Cargo bikes, tandems, trailers and tag-a-longs are great for younger or less confident kids, or in case kids get tired of pedaling. Adults without kids can also join the ride as corkers to help with traffic safety. We’ll ride together as a group, rain or shine, because kids are traffic too!
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