eat: i'm assuming you're like me and want good cheap food. if so, ole ole on e. 21st and burnside is good cheap mexican food, laughing planet cafe on 33rd and belmont (+ 4 other locations, google them) is good vegan food with meat options too, not too spendy, carry burritoes, pastries, stuff like that. thai food, the thai food cart on sw 3rd is pretty good, as is thai noon on alberta and sweet basil on e. broadway. sushi takahashi on nw broadway and burnside is good, cheap sushi on a train. the montage, under the east end of the morrison bridge, is good cajun sit-down food and open really late. rocco's pizza on sw 10th and burnside is worth going to. nothing beats stumptown coffee on sw 3rd and pine and you'll run into messengers / hipsters with track bikes there on the weeksdays, tourists on the weekends. otherwise, hawthorne, belmont, nw 21st / 23rd, alberta, sw. broadway, burnside, sandy and east broadway are all generally good streets to cruise for restaurants, cheap and expensive.

track/fixed parts: bike central and veloshop are the bottom line, both downtown in SW. veloshop is behind rocco's pizza on the same block and is more street fixed type stuff, bike central is on SW 1st next to the max line and is more track stuff. dean, the owner of bike central is a hell of a wheel builder and a hell of a dick too. city bikes on se. ankeny is good for cheap, used, utilitarian parts.

visit: come here on the weekdays and see the culture of portland. any major 'culture' street, hawthorne, belmont, nw 21st/23rd, the pearl, alberta, fremont, burnside, etc. is worth seeing if you want to get to know the city and people. sellwood is a nice quiet town. the central eastside industrial area is where burnside skatepark is, it's grimey and i love it. filled with train tracks, broken glass, industrial businesses and the like. someday it'll be the next art / pearl district when the industry has died.

ride: downtown traffic. springwater corridor trail. ne 33rd / fremont hill. mt. tabor. the west hills. the zoo bombing hills.