Welcome to Bend
Subtitle: the bike edition
By: edited by Laura Walker
Series: Welcome to Bend
Publisher: the author
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bend, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Cycling; Interviews; Pictorial works; Poetry; Comic books, strips
Description: Issue 4 is the Bike Edition of Welcome to Bend. Laura interviews community members and writes about how Bend has become a "Bike City" over the past few years. Interview subjects are community leaders or small business employees who love to talk about their bike culture, cyclocross, mountain biking, and local staples of the city such as Bend Velo, Thump Coffee, Cog Wild, and the 4th of July Freedom Ride. There are illustrations, photographs, art, comics, haiku and a pull-out guide.
Notes: Gift of the editor, donated in 2012.

Issued with a one-page pullout guide to bikes in Bend.

Limited and individually numbered edition of 500.

Cover title.
Table of contents: title: Bike + art love: an introduction  -- Cassondra Schindler; title: Bikes = yikes!: a foreword  -- the editor; title: Cyclocross 101  -- Serena Biship Gordon; title: Safe routes to schools  -- Briand Potwin; title: Bend's only bike realtor  -- Megan Power; title: Bend Velo  -- Eric Power; title: Bike delivery guy  -- Daniel Brewster; title: Frame builder  -- Wade Beauchamp; title: 835 miles and one night on a a prison cot ; title: Ian Clark --; title: Danger  -- Adam "Adventure" Craig; title: Bend cruiser rides: an interview with Ms. Ringa Bell --; title: A personal account of a life with bikes  -- Rachel Lee-Carman; title: The Freedom ride: an interview with a founding father --; title: The Thunderdrunks: Bend's only biycle gang --; title: He gets big air  -- Kirt Voreis; title: She's got big balls  -- Lindsey Voreis; title: Pedicab pilot  -- John Flannery; title: Wrench wench  -- Barbara Bohm-Becker; title: BYOB: bombing yarn (on bikes) over Bend --; title: Cog wild bicycle tours  -- Lev Stryker; title: Ruff rider  -- Lauren Buccola; title: A history of bike culture in Bend since 1972  -- Gary Bonacker; title: Contact info, back orders, subscriptions & submissions --