Here’s a bike adventure with one simple purpose: help cyclists in Bend stay out of traffic when they are riding around town. Think of it as a tour that takes you here, there and everywhere. By the end of it, you’ll rethink how to commute across town on a bike. We call this route Townie.

Townie was patched together by your pals from Dirty Freehub. Normally, Dirty Freehub is all about helping cyclists ride in remote areas on gravel bike routes; we have over 8,000 miles of free, curated gravel bike route reviews across Oregon, Arizona and the rest of the western U.S. But the Townie route is different because it’s not about escaping the town we live in, but rather about riding within it.

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