For our final blog post this year, we’d like to share some video clips of Gary Bonacker speaking about Tour des Chutes with former board member Jim Morris. We hope you enjoy hearing from our founder! Gary Bonacker Interview Clip 1 Gary Bonacker Interview Clip 2 Gary Bonacker Interview Clip 3 Gary Bonacker Interview Clip […]
Over the years, we hear a lot of stories about why people ride Tour des Chutes. On the eve of our 16th annual event, and because we cannot come together tomorrow, here are some of those voices: I ride for my dad who lost his battle and for others who continue to fight, such as […]
Several years ago, Chuck said he started to have a dull stomach pain. “It wasn’t that bad, it just felt like I’d eaten something wrong.” The pain wasn’t alarming, and it was so intermittent that he didn’t bother to bring it up with his physician when he’d get his yearly physical. The relatively mild symptoms […]
If you’ve experienced any kind of hip discomfort while riding, this article from Burke Selbst of Focus Physical Therapy could be a huge help: Today we’re all about hips. This often overlooked joint may have a significant influence on your bike fit and riding comfort. Let’s break down the biomechanics of hip joint alignment […]
We are proud of the community partnerships have been built over the years, and of the fact that we have donated over $1.2 million to help children and adults with cancer thrive. We couldn’t have done that without our amazing participants, sponsors, and volunteers, and wanted to take a moment as we celebrate 16 years […]
Why do I ride, why do I serve, why do I donate? Tour des Chutes has just always made sense to me. To say that being diagnosed with cancer during my final week of high school, over 25 years ago, changed me as a person is an understatement. At a time when my friends were […]
In so many ways, our world has changed tremendously in the past few years. Just these past few months have shown us monumental change in daily life on a scale that most people have never experienced before. Interestingly though, some of us (likely most of us at an event like the Tour des Chutes) have […]
My name is Anne Linton and I am a retired physician as well as a safety rider for the Tour des Chutes. At the 2017 edition of the Tour, I came across my husband standing alongside his bike halfway up Johnson Rd hill and little did we know our lives were going to change once again. Tim, […]
Gravel bike routes to use for the Tour des Chutes – By Gravel Girl (Linda English) from Dirty Freehub My husband and I created Dirty Freehub (www.dirtyfreehub.com) to share all our secret gravel bike routes. We love gravel cycling because we ride on all sorts of terrain, escaping the cars and the people. We have […]
Mosaic Medical is the largest community health center in the region that provides primary care, behavioral health and social service support to those in Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties. Over half of the patients we serve qualify for OHP and a cancer diagnosis is something that would be detrimental to a patient’s ability to provide […]