In the past I’ve documented Portland’s strong and rich connection between coffee and bikes. I’ve also shared how this city is absolutely bonkers for cargo bikes in all of their many manifestations. Well, it turns out that those two trends are continuing to push local coffee and bike lovers to new heights.
Here are a few dispatches from the front lines of Portland’s coffee bike arms race (followed by several, non-coffee cargo bike news updates)
Aspiring entrepreneur and Portland resident Jake Rueda just completed a successful Kickstarter campaign for PourPour Coffee. Now he’ll take the money he raised ($5,000) and put it toward, “a modern brew-to-order coffee cart on a tricycle.” I have a feeling we’ll be seeing and hearing a lot more from Jake this coming summer. He hopes to open in mid-May. Watch for updates on his website.
Ryan says the new rig debuted at the recent Specialty Coffee Association of America Convention held here in Portland last weekend. Ryan built up the bike in his shop in Old Town with a lot of help from another local coffee bike guru, Charlie Wicker of Trailhead Coffee Roasters (more on him below). Ryan said the bike wouldn’t have been possible without Charlie’s knowledge and inspiration.
Ryan also said it was hard to find a quality espresso maker that could run off of basic 110 volt power (which can use any standard household outlet). After a search he found a machine from Italian company Astoria and collaborated with them on the project. His Espresso Coffee Bike comes with an Astoria AL1 espresso maker that can run off either propane or 110V power. “The beauty of that is we can either plug it into a hotel lobby or take it to the beach or a park where you might not have electricity,” he says.
Ryan’s Espresso Coffee Bike retails for $9,999 for a complete package that includes water tanks (one for fresh water, one for waste water), a refrigeration unit for milk and cream, a propane tank, and a professional-grade bean grinder (that can run up to 8 hours per charge). He’s already sold one to a customer in Bogota, Colombia and more orders are piling up.
When we introduced you to local coffee roaster Charlie Wicker three years ago, he ran his Trailhead Coffee Roasting business from an Xtracycle longtail. Then he upgraded his bike a locally made Metrofiets cargo bike with a custom wooden box. Yesterday I ran into Charlie on a delivery and saw the maiden voyage of his latest creation…
The name of the business, Loud Mouth, comes from their shared history, too: Lauren Ingram’s mother affectionately calls Grey “the Mouth from the South” because he’s Southern and opinionated, he said, and they thought “Loud Mouth” would also pay tribute to the couple’s shared career history in advertising.
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