PDX Cafe Bike Tour!

Bikes to Rwanda is happy to present a Portland tour of cafes in conection with the United States Barista Championships this Thursday and Friday, March 5 and 6th. The bike tour will showcase some of the finest cafes in P-town over the course of two day of riding. Thursday's tour will start at the Oregon Convention Center at 3:00 pm and will wind through northwest portland and end in southeast at the Bakery Bar on southeast Water Ave at 6pm just in time for the welcome to portland party.

Day two will also start at the convention Center and sample some of the finest northeast portland coffee house flavor. Wrapping up at the downtown Stumptown cafe at 6pm before a final ride to the semi-finalist's happy hour at Holocene in southeast PDX.

The ride will be open to everyone and is free to everyone. Please come and tour our fabulaous city by bike and ask us about Bikes to Rwanda.

Enjoy.

Healthy People, Healthy Places

I spoke in Richard White's Healthy People, Healthy Places class again, this is the 5th time one of use from BTR has presented in this class and the students, all sophomores, always have great questions. 

This time they were working with logic models and using the models to form their questions to me. They wrapped up with an Output vs Outcomes listing exercise that I took notes on and that showed that we are on the right track. Essentially our Outputs are the bikes shops, quality coffee and increased income. Our Outcomes are increased quality of life, higher prices paid for coffee and local economic stimulus. 

Our next class presentation will be at Lincoln High School and we will be talking to the International Studies group on campus. That's February 25th. That evening we will be tabling at the screening of As We Forgive, a documentary about healing the wounds caused by the 1994 Rwandan genocide. 

WEND Magazine + Bikes To Rwanda

If you haven't had a chance to read the piece about BTR, written by staffer Anna Brones - it's in the newest issue of WEND magazine, a Portland-based adventure/outdoor/epic/chill/real-people type of periodical edited by our good friend Ian Marshall, then you should check it out on newsstands right now. You can find them online here. And pick them up nationally at these fine retailers.

Also, if you subscribe to this amazing read and use the code "BTR", Bikes To Rwanda will receive $ for each subscription! Thanks WEND.

Hope everyone is well and enjoying whatever weather mother nature is throwing your way. We're racing cyclocross out here in Portland and enjoying some sunshine. So go for a ride, surf, ski, skate or just take a walk for a change and read a good magazine when you get home.

Cheers,
Tom