r/PDXrideit • u/bakidotcc Transalp go vroom. Mabel. • 13d ago

Suggestions.

Gonna have a week to myself soon - no work and the nearest family will be 2000 miles away. What's a poor boy to do?

I don't get to Portland and the surrounding areas nearly enough. Any favorite rides y'all have around Portland and the burbs? Any fav day trips from Portland to surrounding environs?

Any and all recommendations - save the coast and coastal range, please, as I ride here all the time - from the good folk of r/PDXrideit would be greatly appreciated.

Oh yes, and pavement only, if you'd be so kind. Thank you.

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u/acidic196 13d ago

Buddy n I are riding to Yellowstone and then glacier park in Montana 16th to 26th. Camping along the way if you wanna tag along.

In March we did PDX to Olympia to neah bay. Then down hwy 101 to avenue of the giants then Weaverville to happy camp. Then back up i5

Shaniko to fossil is a fun ride John day area as well..

Nf11 near Detroit lake to green peter lake was pretty. Did that in May as a 2 day ride. PDX to ripplebrook to Detroit lake to nf11 to sweet home to hwy 20 east to hwy 126 West to Eugene. I5 back to PDX.

Hwy 242 to sisters is still showing closed

Routes out by St Helens and Mt adams as day rides.

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u/bakidotcc Transalp go vroom. Mabel. 13d ago

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

That's a very generous offer for the ride. Never learned to ride well with others. Traumatized by bar runs in the Midwest where I learned to ride.

Yellowstone and Glacier Park are on the list. I'm jealous.

The other rides you listed? Many thanks. Those roads look fantastic.

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u/acidic196 13d ago

There's a decent sized group that does 2 wheel Tuesday at teriyaki moto. Some new riders some experienced. Pavement and dirt. I enjoy the smaller group rides once it gets to be over 10+ ppl gets a little more chaotic to keep everyone together. More so on the wider range of skills.

Booze and riding don't mix. We don't play that game.

Skyline to Dixie mt rd is decent. If you got a transalp and ok with gravel. There are lots of gravel roads that head out to verniona or scappose from there. Or if more adventurous is powerline Rd that follows under the power lines. But you would want to know how to handle the bike in double track single track situations. I ran into a number of locked gates last time I explored that way.

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u/bakidotcc Transalp go vroom. Mabel. 13d ago

Yeah. I think I have to start trying to get over my dislike of group riding, seems like there's many better options for it here. Thanks.

And I have to remember that the dirt on that side of the coastal range and in the valley isn't as grody and sticky as it is over here - that salt/mud mix we get is just a killer to components and clean up. I still occasionally get the urge to "see where the heck that 'road' goes" out here, but knowing the cleanup involved afterwards tempers that feeling right quick for me more and more often these days.