Hi Jeff. The last I heard there was a display of locally built custom buil t bikes at the Portland Airport. Portland now has the highest number of cu stom frame builders to population size of any place in the U.S. You may wa nt to take in a few custom builders while your there. Let us know how it w ent.
Tom Harriman
San Francisco, Ca
> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:24:11 -0700
> From: jmpiwonka@yahoo.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]Trip to Portland, off topic I guess.
>
> Not sure if this is considered off topic, I apologize
> if it is.
>
> I'm going to be in Portland in a few days and I'm
> going to have some free time and almost certainly a
> bike to ride.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone on here can point to some
> places to check out in my freetime.
> interests are:
>
> -good bike shops of course :-)
> -music stores with vinyl.
> -musical instrument stores with old instruments,
> particularly double basses...
> -coffee shops, I hear Stumptown is good.
> -things and out of towner wouldn't think of.
>
> I think I'll be staying around freeway 84 and 60th
> street...
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff Piwonka
> Austin, Texas, USA