[Posted by reader "Rybart"]
My 2006 21″ red Gary Fisher X-Caliber hardtail mountain bike was stolen from an office downtown on 12/28. I hadn’t even owned it five months!! The serial # is WL3317996 and can be found underneath the bottom bracket.
You get a $100 finder’s fee and tonnes of good karma if you find [...]

Yesterday I got a call from one of my intrepid correspondents (thanks Dat!) that the downtown Bike Gallery has just received shipment of the very first Trek Portlands. Today I went down to investigate and sure enough, they’ve got two of them (a 52 and 54 cm) already in stock and they expect more [...]

Be very careful what you wish for. I prayed for a good old slogger, but somebody upstairs took me a little too literally. After Loenhout’s 1 in 1,000 high-speed ‘crosses (easily the fastest I’ve done), the pendulum swung way back to make Hooglede the 1 in 1,000 slow-speed ‘cross (easily the slowest I’ve done). Consider [...]

Here’s my list of news and events I remember most from 2005:

We broke the 10,000 barrier in average number of bike trips across the four main Willamette River bridges.
Too many cyclists lost their lives or suffered serious injuries on Portland streets.
At one point at the Multnomah County Bike Fair someone counted 500 bikes parked in [...]

The Community Cycling Center has funding through the Oregon Dept. of Transportation for grants up to $5,000 for “innovative and creative” bike safety programs that “incorporate a strong educational element.”
Applications are due Feb 23.
For more information or to receive your application packet, contact Jen Robinson with your name, name of your agency/ organization, full postal [...]

In today’s Portland Tribune, Jacob Quinn Sanders profiles the four cyclists who were killed on the streets of Portland in 2005.
…even in bike-mad Portland, it can be easy to forget those riders once had names, faces, friends and families. Aside from the memorial rides organized in their honor, there is little public [...]

I’m a huge fan of bike polo. I played once this summer and it took about a week for my grin to wear off. Now I get word from Dabby that they’re running low on polo bikes. The problem is that they’re very hard on equipment and the bikes they use are [...]

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Filmed by Bike IV, a festival of bike-themed movies in April 2006, is calling for entries of bike-related film shorts of 8 minutes or less. Deadline for entries is March 15, 2006. Proceeds from Filmed by Bike IV will fund the Shift Multnomah County Bike Fair, a [...]

Just a heads up that from now on I’ll be posting the Shift Bike Bulletin. The Bike Bulletin is the bi-monthly comprehensive listing of local bike events put together by Shift to Bikes.
Besides wanting to keep you informed, I’m posting the Bulletin because in it’s current form (on an email listserv and [...]

We just got back from the Loenhout GVA, and all our guys in the elite race finished it up. The course was spectacularly short and fast due to the cold (-1C = 30F) and dry conditions today. ‘Twas a 5min. lap, and we did 12 of ‘em, averaging I think over 20mph. There was a [...]

Some of you may remember a comment from Joe Biel about the bike art documentary he’s working on.
From the looks of this short teaser clip he just sent me, “Martinis in the Bike Lane” looks like a really solid effort and I look forward to seeing the whole thing.
The short film will [...]

Last Sunday’s Christmas Zoobomb became tense when a motorist tried to pass the riders on a curvy downhill section of road.
According to reports on the Zoobomb forum and Shift email list a gold Toyota Camry attempted to pass the Zoobombers on the left on a dangerous section of the road. When the car was [...]

Portland resident and Sellwood Cycle Repair employee Erik Tonkin is racing his heart out on the World Cup cyclocross circuit. His candid reports reveal how tough the racing is:
Oh my god that was hard. Thankfully, even the top guys consider it one of the toughest. The sand is long and deep and then wet [...]

[Posted by reader: "Robin"]
Yep, my dark green 2005 surly crosscheck was stolen from me last night (christmas) from 16th and morrisson downtown. It’s a 58cm with a thompson laidback seatpost, a terry ti saddle, crank bros eggbeaters stainless pedals and stock tiagra/deore mix parts for the rest. It has all the logos [...]

Oh my god that was hard. Thankfully, even the top guys consider it one of the toughest. The sand is long and deep and then wet and mucky, and the course is short. We did 10 laps, the leaders doing just around 6min. per lap. I’m happy to say that [...]

It’s the day after Christmas. I’m still down here in Southern Cal. Lots of family. My two brothers and I haven’t all been together for several years so I’ll be hanging with them as much as possible before coming back to Portland on Thursday. I’ve got some great things to post [...]

Hey there from Belgium. So, as some know, I was shitty sick just after Nats, and left for Belge in its throes. I have improved but don’t feel like I usually do when I get here. Mostly, the trouble comes from taking over a week off the bike. I tried to [...]

Want to bring your attention to two recent “Voices”.
Dabby has posted an announcement about the New Year’s Day Mud Bowl bike polo event.
I’ve posted a poem by Chops called “Next Time.” He performed it at BikeCraft but it was so loud I couldn’t really hear him. I ran into him later and asked [...]

[Sprockettes at BikeCraft]
Just a little reminder that you can purchase the 2006 Sprockettes Calendar online for $5 (plus $2 shipping/delivery). This hot little item was a hit at BikeCraft but for all of you that couldn’t make it, now’s your chance to get one before they sell out. They make great gifts [...]

The Get Lit program organized by Jeff Bernards and Shift to Bikes has been a great success. This year they’ve given away over 500 pairs of high-quality Planet Bike lights…for free! Jeff’s innovative program has inspired a similar program by the Portland Police and the City of Portland.

Our bikes were stolen from our locked shed in the Irvington neighborhood of NE Portland. The first one was a 2004 Trek Navigator, 16.5, red with grey, serial # ITK4C03907. The second one was a 2005 Trek Navigator, 18.5, blue with gold, serial #ITK4D05020. If you happen to come across either one [...]

[Aaron Tarfmann on his way to the store]

Portland has seen a bit of snow in the past few days. Of course I’m missing all the fun down here in California, but through the wonders of the Internet I have come across a few photos and reports of intrepid Portland cyclists braving the conditions.
Check out [...]

Holidaze got you down? Sick of the same old Christmas songs? These bikey carols will have you grinning with yuletide vibes in no time. They were written by esteemed Portland bike fun pioneers Amy Stork, Jim Waigand and Jeff Bernards. There’s a PDF of these lyrics on the Shift website for [...]

I can’t get to everything…

Carye Bye wants to get more folks on bikes. Check out her idea (and the great feedback) for a “bike buddy” program here in Portland.
The Wise Old Bicycle Guy is sick of bike theft and wants to start “un-stealing” bikes.
The Oregon Bicyclists Manual (PDF) has been updated and revised.

The Portland [...]

The Cross Crusade might be over but that’s not the only cross series in town. Veloshop kicked off the season back in September and they’ll bring it to an official close this Sunday (Dec. 18th) at Blue Lake Park.
This is the last of three Veloshop races this year and they’ve all been great [...]

Portland bikers, consider yourselves spoiled with bike fun. Here is a round-up of rides happening on the first day of 2006 (if you know of others, feel free to add them to the comments):

The bike is a 2004 black Surly Cross Check. The Surly bike stickers are covered with electrical tape. There is a zoobomb sticker on the left side of the down tube

Peter Loewi is a regular BikePortland.org reader, PDOT intern, and dedicated Veloshop Team member (he once had his mouth wired in pink to show his team colors!).
When he noticed a recent NY Times Travel article on Portland made no mention of bikes he decided to give them a piece of his mind…and they printed it!

The LDTMA (Lloyd District Transportation Management Association) recently held an open forum to discuss bike issues in the Lloyd District area. They invited several NE Precinct police officers and traffic division commander Bill Sinnott. During the Q&A session, someone asked to see a list of the most common bicycle infractions and the cost [...]

I’m down in Orange County visiting family and I won’t be back until Dec. 29th. I’ve only been here about 5 days now, but I already miss Portland. We’ve rented a mini-van and I’ve done more driving in the past few days than I have for the past 6 months. Everywhere I [...]