[Papa on a tall-bike]

There's a new clown in town. That's right, Dingo and his family welcome a new addition into the Clownhouse. Can't wait to see baby Bruce aboard a tall-bike!
A week or so back I posted about a journalist wanting feedback from cyclists about TriMet complaints. The story ended up [...]

There's an interesting new group in town called the Community Exchange Cycle Touring Club. I noticed their Yahoo Group linked from a listing on the Shift Calendar.
The group is based in southeast Portland and was started by 40-something electrical engineer Steven Kung, a veteran of several international bike tours and a professionally trained mechanic. [...]

Just came across this bike rack on the Cleverchimp blog (first posted on Rad-Spannerei).

Here's how the designer describes it:
"6 bicycles versus ONE car. this bike park occupies a single carpark space, like a critical proposal TO THE TRAFFIC."
I think someone at Office of Transportation should order a few for downtown Portland...this thing [...]

[Photo by Aaron Tarfman]

Bike activist Aaron Tarfman shares his thoughts on the recent Burnside Bridge closure over in the "Voices" section.
"This past weekend the Burnside Bridge was closed to all traffic. Given that at least 5 of the city’s most dangerous pedestrian intersections occur on Burnside, I had to see what effect this [...]

[Seth's card]

A few weeks ago I asked if you had questions for Kryptonite because I was going to meet with one of their tech guys, Seth Samson. I printed out all of your questions and brought them to dinner. Here are your questions followed by answers I managed to scribble down over [...]

I just heard from bike community mastermind and uber event promoter Ayleen Crotty that the final tally for Sunday's Worst Day of the Year Ride was a whopping 1,525 people. That's an amazing turnout and over twice the amount of riders they had last year.
The big turnout was a cause for celebration [...]

At the recent Worst Day of the Year Ride, folks from the CCC had a photo booth set up. Riders dressed up and got crazy for the camera and the resulting photos are really funny. Here's one of my favorites:

Go check out the entire gallery

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["Psychlist" by Stephen Sedlar]

I noticed these cool pieces of art at Urban Grind the other day. The bike-inspired motifs piqued my curiosity so I snapped a few photos and took a closer look. From a flyer posted near the work I learned that they're, "made from concrete that has been mixed with [...]

It's been just over a month since I launched the Portland Bike Forums. So far, 93 people have registered and we've got 181 posts. More people are signing up every week and there's already been some interesting posts and quality discussions. We've even been graced by the presence of aspiring filmmaker "WhiteSword". [...]

The Portland Police are planning another traffic enforcement action next Wednesday (the 22nd) at the intersection of NE Knott and 7th from 7:30 to 10:30AM. They call this an "Intersection Safety Enforcement Action" and they'll be looking for motorists, cyclists, or pedestrians who fail to come to a complete stop.
Here's what happened the last [...]

[Carye Bye feels the love]

Last night, the bike love crew from Shift to Bikes was out in full force. They put on a super cool Mocktails on the Bridge event that greeted cold bike commuters with hot drinks, cookies, snacks and smiles.

Bike Gallery owner Jay Graves was on hand to do [...]

Local bike component manufacturer, King Cycle Group/Chris King Components has just released the results of their "Pretty and Strong" promotion. Over a four month period they donated a portion of the sales of a limited production run of pink parts to Oregon and SW Washington chapters of the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The [...]

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The Community and School Traffic Safety Partnership is a group with the City of Portland Office of Transportation that focuses on bicycle and pedestrian safety, reducing driver error, and Safe Routes to School. They've got $300,000 to spend on bike and ped projects over the next two years and they've [...]

Because of savvy BikePortland.org readers, we've recovered two bikes in the past two weeks. I just love it when this happens and it's proof that by keeping your eyes open and regularly checking the Stolen Bike Listings we can leverage the power of community to re-unite bikes with their owners. Here are the [...]

[Posted by "rcmotorider"]
Well, it saddens me to be making this post but some a-hole stole my Mtn. Bike yesterday from the 24 Hour Fitness Center on NW Johnson. It happened around 4:00pm.
My bike is a Large, White SANTA CRUZ, Chameleon. It has a "ThudBuster" seat post, black "Marzocchi" forks, "Easton" handle bars with bar [...]

Two weeks ago I got an email from Cameron Mallory. Cameron is a computer programmer who has lived in Seattle for 6 years, has ridden STP, commutes by bike, and races cyclocross. He said he'd been reading BikePortland.org for several months and wanted to do something similar up in Seattle. I of [...]

The Portland United Mountain Pedalers (PUMP) hope ongoing meetings with the Parks Department will move them closer to realizing their ultimate dream, a public bike park within Portland city limits. The group has be working hard to make this dream come true. They've attended countless meetings, drafted a 10 page proposal, and amassed [...]

Posted by John Lehmkuhl
I had a 5 month old Gary Fisher Utopia stolen from my house here in Westmoreland on Jan. 20th while I was out of town and my wife was putting my 5 year old daughter to sleep. Police say it was a random robbery and they got lucky on this one. I [...]

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Grab your children and run for cover because Mini-bike Winter is coming. Starting Wednesday, local bike fun agitators from near and far will descend upon our fair city for a five-day feast of 16" wheeled madness. Or, in the words of one of the organizers, "an extended weekend of naked rides, [...]

With well over 1000 riders, yesterday's Worst Day of the Year Ride kicked of the season in grand style. I've never seen such a diverse group of cyclists on one ride. People from all walks of bike showed up, eager to pedal around town in the company of friends and long overdue [...]