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Blue/Purple/Yellow Kona Kahlua 15-16″ mountain bike stolen from outside the Plaid Pantry on NE Glisan and 28th in the early morning hours of Sunday 9/17. If you have any info on this please get in touch.
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Just released from the City of Portland are impressive stats for daily bike traffic over the four main Portland bridges. These stats are from this summer and they reflect the largest jump in bike traffic since records started being kept back in 1992 and how a nearly 15% jump since last year alone.
The bridges surveyed are the:
Here’s a quick comparison:
Congratulations to everyone that helps make Portland a great place to ride a bike. These numbers are the fruit of your efforts! If you like charts and graphs, I’ve posted a few others on my Bike Safety page.
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Stolen in close-in SE over a month ago. Police report filed with serial number. Bike was all original and had a bell and light mount.
Rebecca Ragain, a local freelancer, has written a terrific piece on bike culture in this week’s Just Out newspaper. It’s a cover story titled, “Feel the Love: Queer bicyclists roam the roads, trails and tracks of Portland and beyond.”
It’s rare to have such quality writing and in-depth coverage of a specific bikey sub-culture. The piece mentions many local cyclists and it highlights the diversity of the Portland bike scene.
Cheers and kudos to both Just Out editors and to Rebecca for a great article. To grab a copy of your own, here’s a list of Just Out distribution locations.