The long list of 17 locally owned bike shops might be one of the best indicators of Bend’s rise to one of the nation’s most biketastic towns. Speedy road racers, muddy cyclocross riders, hard-partying mountain bikers and high-flying downhill fanatics have claimed Bend as a home, because of its rolling and wide-open turf—perfect for any […]
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Bend’s Bike Boom
Forty years later, bike culture
is still racking and rolling