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My bike was stolen today (Aug. 9th) from the front of 1400 SW 5th Ave
building (5th Ave and Columbia) on the 5th Ave side. It is an orange
Kona mountain bike, says “Hot” on the frame. Has red rims on both
the tires, clip in pedals, wireless odometer, two water bottle racks,
back rack for bags. It is about a 53 or 54 in size. I just moved
here from Seattle so it hadn’t been registered yet with the city…I
have to look for pictures…
thanks,
Morgan Kimbrough
206-617-0784
Last week—in the middle of the fixed-gear fiasco—I got an email from an employee of The Bicycle Business, a bike shop in Sacramento, California.
They had stumbled across the story and thought the judge and the police were being, “completely ridiculous” so they decided to flex their capitalist muscles and do something about it:
Back in December I shared the story of my ride with Alan Koch. Alan is a retired photographer who’s on a quest to ride every single mile of paved road in the City of Portland.
Despite some setbacks—including a fall from his bike which took him out for 5 weeks—he has just completed a major milestone and has now ridden every road in east Portland!
From the Willamette River way out east to 185th and from the Columbia River in the north down south to the Clackamas County line.
I received a sad email yesterday. It was from a reporter, looking for someone to interview about the death of Mike Wilberding last Saturday in Beaverton.
I had to double-take at the name, but quickly realized it was the same Mike behind Cycle-Pak, one of my first advertisers here on BikePortland.org.
At 6:22pm August 1st, Mike was riding home from work going eastbound on SW Fifth Street in Beaverton when an oncoming car turned left in front of him. The driver said the sun was in his eyes and that he never even saw him. The police have cited the vehicle for failure to yield to a bicycle.