Archive for October, 2005
Monday, October 31st, 2005
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.
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
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 […]
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
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 […]
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
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
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
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 […]
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Sunday, October 30th, 2005
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 […]
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Sunday, October 30th, 2005
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 […]
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Sunday, October 30th, 2005
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 […]
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Sunday, October 30th, 2005
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 […]
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Sunday, October 30th, 2005
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 […]
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Saturday, October 29th, 2005
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. […]
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
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 […]
Framebuilders, People, Business, Front Page | Comments (3)
Friday, October 28th, 2005
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 […]
Zoobomb, News, Front Page | Comments (1)
Friday, October 28th, 2005
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 […]
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
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 […]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
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 […]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
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 […]
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