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That Fun Thing We Do Every June

In 2002, Portland hosted Bike Summer, and it was great! So, every summer since then, we've had another festival which is now called Pedalpalooza. Click on one of the following years to see its calendar of events.

2010 NEXT! June 10-26, 2010. Start adding your events! The deadline for the print calendar is usually early May sometime.
2009 Was this the biggest ever? The number of events was down a tiny bit, but the number of people at each event seemed to double. One highlight is that we had about 5000 people for the World Naked Bike Ride... or nearly 1% of Portlanders!
2008 Vastly larger than previous years. The Portland Mercury increased their involvement. Shift hosted the International Toward Carfree Cities Conference. The City of Portland had its first Sunday Parkways (Ciclovia). Soaring fuel pricess increased interest in bikes. The result: 185 events in the printed calendar, and 197 events in the online calendar (not counting repeating events). Larger crowds all around. Wonderful. I'm still sleepy.
2007 The printed calendar had 130 events, and the online calendar ended up with 140. That's may sound a hair's breadth smaller than PP2006, but actually most of the events attracted far more people in 2007. Yea Bikes! Go Team! Rah! Rah! Ride Reports (PDF)
2006 The printed calendar had 133 events, and the online calendar ended up with 143 (taking cancellations into account). Which was your favorite?
2005 That Pedalpalooza was huge. The printed calendar had 95 events, but the online calendar, which could be updated throughout the festival, ended up with 114 events.
2004 The first year that it was called "Pedalpalooza" and the first with a 16-day Thursday-to-Saturday schedule. It had 68 events.
2003 Mini BikeSummer. 49 events. Apparently Portland was the first (and so far only?) BikeSummer site to continue the festival on following years. This first year, it was organized in cooperation with Zoobomb. (A brief history of Shift and Zoobomb.)
2002 BikeSummer! In August, not June? Wow, the things we forget. 97 events.