[submitted by “corn_rocket”]
Have you come across a unique, hand-built, custom frame identified as Lacquement?
Mine was stolen around 30th and Killingsworth.
Please contact okie at comcast net if you happen upon this bike.
Day: January 16, 2006
Brains and bikes at OMSI IMAX
An interesting movie is coming to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) on March 6th. It’s called “Wired to Win” and according to the film’s website:
“the film combines spectacular live-action footage with cutting-edge computer graphics and medical imagery to demonstrate how each brain responds to experience and challenge in ways we’re only just beginning to understand.”
The images are sort of creepy, but it looks like it’ll be an interesting movie.
110 years of bike maps
[Then]
[Now]
One reason Portland is such a great biking town is that bikes have been a part of the landscape for well over 100 years. Case in point; in my office I’ve got a framed version of the “Cyclists’ Road Map of Portland” dated 1896 (more photos here). It’s a really cool map and it has advertisements for all kinds of interesting things including:
- Shirk Bicycles which are “strictly up-to-date”
- Sterling Bicycles formerly located at 362 Morrison Street
- “Women’s and Men’s Bicycle Hose, Shoes and Caps for sale at Meier and Frank; “decided by women everywhere to be the most convenient and serviceable wheeling apparel made”
Compare that to Metro’s current Bike There! map and you can see how far we’ve come in 110 years.
For another interesting look at the progress of Portland’s bikeway network, check out this animation I created. It shows the bikeway network in 5-year increments from 1980 and into the future.