Meet the Cycle Pub of Bend, Oregon

It appears that, in some places anyway, you can drink all the beer you want and still pedal your way around ? as long as you?re not also doing the steering. The Cycle Pub, in the central Oregon outdoors mecca of Bend, gives you the opportunity to pair the passions of cycling and world-class microbreweries, and "create an experience you and your fellow riders will never forget. It's a non-traditional bike, where you sit and pedal in a non-traditional way, and enjoy non-traditional features and beverages. For lack of a better description, it's a rolling pub on wheels, that you pedal."

Now, Bend is not the first community to host such a pedal-powered party wagon. I've read about similar sudsmobiles prowling the streets of places like Minneapolis and Amsterdam. But is there any other town where you can tour so many microbreweries in such a small area?

All Abeerd! Sounds like a real Bender to me. Just be sure to walk or take a taxi back to your hotel room. Or, opt instead to visit Bend's craft breweries aboard the Bend Brew Bus, which provides hotel pickup and drop-off. (The Cycle Pub is rather unwieldly and has no reverse, so it must choose its routes carefully.)

Fat Tire Amber Ale photo by Michael McCoy.

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BIKING WITHOUT BORDERS is posted every Monday by Michael McCoy, Adventure Cycling?s field editor, and highlights a little bit of this or a little bit of that ? just about anything, as long as it?s related to traveling by bicycle. Mac also compiles the organization's twice-monthly e-newsletter Bike Bits, which goes free-of-charge to more than 40,000 readers worldwide.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2011/06/meet-cycle-pub-of-bend-oregon.html

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