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Day: August 1, 2006

Get smart on the BAC bike ride

OR Ped/Bike Advisory committee

[City bike coordinator
Roger Geller.]

You’re not officially a bike geek until you’ve spent an evening with the 13 super-volunteers that make up the Portland Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC).

The BAC advises City Council and various city bureaus on bike-related matters and holds monthly public meetings “to review projects of interest to cyclists and discuss bike issues.”

Basically, they’re a smart bunch and they watch our backs in City Hall.

The meetings can be pretty wonky and boring sometimes (that’s why they’ve got free coffee), but they can also be full of high drama, verbal fisticuffs, and other interesting twists and turns. For instance…

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Reactions to fixed-gear ruling

My recent story on a traffic court decision that upheld a ticket to a local messenger for not having a “separate braking device” on her fixed-gear bicycle has quickly spread around the web and seems to have struck a nerve in cyclists everywhere.

This morning the article was linked to from BoingBoing.net, one of the most well-known blogs in the world with an estimated 1.75 million visitors per day.

Here’s the latest from a local messenger, the lawyer on the case, and a police Lieutenant.

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Are cyclists heroes?

Buffered Bike Lane with a bike symbol and arrow pointing forward

[The following ode was written by new contributor Elicia Cardenas and was originally published to the Shift email list almost one year ago. She wrote it in response to someone who questioned why some cyclists act like heroes or “holier than thou” once astride their bicycles. In the future Elicia will be writing about bike infrastructure, advocacy, and other geeky stuff. Welcome Elicia!]

I am heroic because I ride my bike. All of us are.

I am a hero because every day someone almost kills me while I am trying to get to work.

I am a hero because a car swerved into the bike lane and almost hit me, and I kept riding.

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