My Specialized Rock Hopper was stolen wed Oct. 26th on the corner of 10th and Market.
it’s 10 years old but looks fairly new it’s a kind of brownish maroon color with a matte finish (not shiny) it has bar ends, rockshocks and a Mountain rack.

Trek 7300 FX silver hybrid stolen from in front of the library on SW 10th on sunday about 2pm.
Distinguishing marks: one pedal is broken and one side only says 730, due to a paint touch up. It is rather rough looking becuase I have ridden it lots (about 8000 miles).
It [...]

Our neighbors to the north will soon be able to purchase a “Share the Road” license plate. The plate will be available January 3, 2006 and is part of a bill pushed through the legislature by the Bicycle Alliance of Washington.
$28 from the initial and annual plate renewal fees will go directly [...]

brand new 21 speed grey,blue,white K-2 ZED with front shocks, stolen from my apartment on SE 41st and Stark.
forrestpunx@hotmail.com
503-297-2878

On the last Friday of every month, volunteers from Shift do Breakfast on the Bridges. They set up free pastries and coffee on the Hawthorne and Broadway Bridges and greet bike commuters with a smile.
This month Southeast Uplift joined in with a bike safety awareness rally. They showed up with bike [...]

The City of Portland Office of Transportation has just posted the slide show presentations from lectures given during their Transportation and Traffic Class at Portland State University.
Of particular interest to cyclists is Roger Geller’s overview of Portland’s bikeway system and infrastructure (Roger is the Bicycle Coordinator for the City of Portland and regular commenter [...]

My bike was stolen from the garage in my apartment building sometime after Thursday, October 20th. It is a women’s, black Gary Fisher Wahoo mountain bike with front suspension.
This is truly heartbreaking…My husband’s bike was stolen from out in front of REI in NW PDX (his is a men’s blue/purple Gary Fisher Wahoo mountain [...]

stolen on or before oct 29. old 12spd road bike.
large old style frame (w/brazed frame lugs)
I recently sanded it to bare metal and clearcoated it .the threads where the rear derailer were are bent and stripped.I was running it without derailers with a short chain. I cut and flipped the drop bars it had [...]

I don’t usually list stolen bikes here on the front page, but this one was particularly interesting. If anyone has advice for this woman, please comment. Here is her account:
Last night while I was riding the 4 bus to St. John’s with my 11 year old friend, my Specialized Hemi 24 inch BMX [...]

My bike was stolen about a month ago. It was a 2001 red and yellow Gary Fisher mountain bike, 24 speed. Had a bikegallery sticker on it. It’s was stolen on the East side, so it might still be around.
I don’t know the serial number, I only had it for 7 months and got it [...]

Came across this great quote from Steve Jobs, head of Apple Computer and Reed College dropout.
He was asked by The Independent (a UK newspaper) what was the last piece of technology he acquired - not made by Apple - that really delighted him. After a long pause he said:
“I actually bought a bicycle recently. [...]

I visited local framebuilder Joseph Ahearne yesterday. He just moved all his Ahearne Cycles stuff from the SE Industrial District to St. Johns. His new shop is tucked into the corner of a broken-down old industrial warehouse under the St. Johns Bridge. It’s a beautiful location that will unfortunately be overrun with [...]

According to PDOT, the only thing being tagged for removal are parts that are being attached to the pile. Full Zoobombable bikes are not going to be removed. The loose parts are a safety hazard and if they’re not removed by Monday, they’ll be removed by the City and donated.
See the [...]

In more online mapping news, Wyatt Baldwin over at byCycle.org has made some exciting progress on his bike route finder. After much back and forth, he has finally received data from Metro and integrated it into his Google-map enhanced route finder. Here’s more from Wyatt:
“…we’re now using Metro’s data and the whole tri-county [...]

Just heard that downtown cops have placed pink slips on the famous Zoobomb bike pile across from Rocco’s Pizza. Here’s the post from the Zoobomb forum to keep an eye on.
How can the downtown cops say those bikes are abandoned? Everyone knows about Zoobomb…they were on PBS for crying out loud! If [...]

Eight cyclists showed up Wedsnesday night for a second round of Ghost Bike installs. Three more bikes were put up which brings the total to nine since the memorial for Chris Burris went up on MLK and Wygant in early September. I’ve got photos of them here.
Below is a list of [...]

Back in August Metro began experimenting with Google Earth. Now it seems TriMet and Google have more of an official partnership going on.
I recently heard Carolyn Young (Executive Director of Programs and Communications for TriMet) mention something about TriMet and Google getting together on a special project. I followed up with her and [...]

[see this post for background on this issue]
After much back and forth, it seems the City has ultimately succeeded in destroying the soul of the Alberta community. I met with Dingo at the Clown House a few days ago and things seemed to be “OK”. Much of the random parts and bikes were [...]

I’m excited to introduce the first in a series of BikePortland.org T-shirts (click to enlarge design)! Each shirt in the series will feature an original, bike-themed design from a local artist. The first featured artist is Carye Bye.

Just got some photos from the victims of the recent “Wet Paint” incident.
The riders have contacted ODOT’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Manager, Michael Ronkin. From the looks of his cool personal website and bio, and from what I’ve heard through the grapevine he does great work on behalf of cyclists. [...]

Thursday:
Bicycle “Pumpkin Parade”
This Thursday night get on your costume and get on your bike.
Meet at 6:00 at 4633 NE Alberta Court (1 blk south of Alberta) 4646 NE Alberta Court (On the SW corner of 47th and Alberta Ct.)
Parade around at the Alberta Street Art Walk
Friday:
A special edition of Breakfast on the Bridges!
7-9AM [...]

Check out this recent comment to my “Close Calls” post:
“We were riding up the I-205 bike path on the way to the airport. Going under a bridge we both slid and fell on a freshly painted yellow center line. There was NO signs, cones or anything indicating the lines were freshly painted. We didn’t even [...]

If you ride around the Portland Metro area and the West hills out into Beaverton, you’ll notice a very wide range of bike-friendliness exists from one area to the next.
Inner Southeast has the most riders and bike facilities and infrastructure. At a recent session of the Transportation class I’m taking at PSU, a woman [...]

Local bike shop owner and elite cyclocross racer Molly Cameron is currently on an East Coast trip going up against the best cyclocross racers in the country. And she’s making Portland proud with some great results in her first season as a pro.
Lucky for all of us, Molly keeps up a blog and posts [...]

This morning, Eleni and I packed up the trailer and joined Slug Velo for their Fall Colors ride. We met up with about 30 other folks and pedaled down the Springwater Corridor trail, past Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, through Sellwood, down to Reed College and back to the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne.
It [...]

Check out this article from Autoweek (of all places) about the Red Bull Dragsterday. I would love to see this event come to Portland. I know our local mutant bike cult would despise a corporate sponsored event, but Red Bull puts on a great show (remember the Flugtag?) Pedal-powered dragsters would be [...]

A while back, I posted about Trek’s new commuter bike called the “Portland”. I just noticed that they’ve added it to their website. Check out all the details. And thought you might like this screenshot from the Trek site. Isn’t that the Steel Bridge?!

Celeste green Bianchi Veloce with a dent on the top tube and yellow Time ATAC pedals stolen at PSU on 10/20/05

[Update: Obituary published in local newspaper.]
I just got word that Don Stathos has passed away. Back in 1971, Stathos introduced the Bicycle Bill into the state legislature. The bill demanded that a minimum of 1 percent of highway construction funds went to building bike paths on newly built and reconstructed roads. [...]

IKEA has officially announced their plans to build a Portland store.

“The store will be built on nearly 19 acres at the southwestern corner of I-205 and Airport Way…75 bicycle racks and two light-rail stations will provide convenient access”

While I’m no fan of massive consumerism, I think IKEA will be a good neighbor. And, given [...]