Synth wave ride ..4th year (this playlist heavily features Kavinsky, and will commemorate him.(NakedHearts)
Day
Friday, August 7, 2026
Meet
7:00 PM
Rolls
7:30 PM
Where
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Colonel Summers Park
“Colonel Summers by the basketball courts”
1925 SE Taylor St Portland, OR 97214 United States · Buckman
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- 15 SE Belmont & 20th · 2 min walk
- 14 SE Hawthorne & 19th · 5 min walk
Audience
General
NOTE(PLEASE BE MINDFUL OF SOUND AND AVOID ENTERING THE PARK NEAR THE TENNIS COURTS. THERES THEATER HAPPENING. AM I SHOUTING? The ride is one of our favorites and features incredible music. We will stop at the perfect place to commemorate the recent passing of legend Kavinsky.
About
Synth Wave?
Theme: Synth music. I’ve a somewhat healthy ,bordering on obsessive, love for Atmospheric synth music. My mind conjures images of cruising through the desert going from one strange David Lynchesque space too a Ray Bradburyesque situation. Or traveling along like Humphrey Bogart after leaving some seedy North-Cal coastal hotel on the way with a rendezvous with a Blade Runner whose driving a Ferrari F40 so they can talk about the CyberPunks who’ve been interrupting Max Headroom’s transmissions. Or the Thumping beat over synth drones as shambling Zombies sniff out Sarah Connor whose on her way to speak too Crockett and Tubbs…….
You get the picture? That’s a lot of references.
It’s the cinematic mood music that makes each moment feel somehow pivotal and life transforming and memory making.
I love this type of music. I love how evocative it is, especially when traveling and so I’m pleased to be hosting this ride and sharing the moments it’ll create for us all.
Route. Social pace with a store stop.
Costumes? Cyberpunk or 80’s work well.
This is a NakedHearts:PDX ride.
We ask everyone to follow the shift code of conduct and also be personally accountable.
We have an introduction before the ride where we lay out practicing consent and non violence. It takes all of us to make the rides comfortable so we can all chill.