{"id":401,"date":"2012-06-22T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/2012\/06\/22\/friday-fun-zoobomb\/"},"modified":"2013-01-05T00:26:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T00:26:52","slug":"friday-fun-zoobomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/22\/friday-fun-zoobomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Zoobomb!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zoobomb.net\/logos\/213x275templatezoobomb.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/zoobomb.net\/logos\/213x275templatezoobomb.jpg\" width=\"154\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">If you happen to be in Portland  on a Sunday evening and in need of an adrenaline rush, grab your bike, helmet, lights\u00a0and other protective gear,\u00a0and  hop the light rail to Washington Park Zoo, then take the elevator to the  top.\u00a0\u00a0There you\u00a0can join\u00a0fellow cyclists&#8211;and maybe some skaters and longboarders&#8211;for an exhilarating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoobomb.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Zoobomb<\/b><\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Zoobombing\u00a0involves riding bikes (or skates or skateboards)\u00a0as fast as you can down West Hills.\u00a0 This event has been happening regardless of weather every Sunday evening since 2002 and\u00a0is firmly ensconced in Portland&#8217;s bike culture.\u00a0 Do a search on YouTube and you&#8217;ll find tons of videos of this\u00a0event.\u00a0 Sample one below.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Willie Weir and Kat Marriner recounted their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowtentadventures.com\/zoo-bombing-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">zoobomb experience<\/a> in a series of blurbs on their blog, Yellow Tent Adventures.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M0g_YwfW1lQ\" width=\"504\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to be in Portland on a Sunday evening and in need of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[40,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-adventure","category-bike-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Friday Fun: Zoobomb! 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