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Posting Number: OCDT7103
Job Title: Bicycle/Pedestrian Facilities Specialist
Location: Salem
Closing date: 02/12/2007
Closing time: 5:00 PM
Job Class: C3147 – Assoc In Engineering 2
Job Hours: Full-time, Flex Schedules
Salary: $3287 – $4932 Monthly
Dan Kaufman of CrankMyChain Cycle TV has put together this fun Mini Bike Winter promotional video. It includes footage from last night’s Zoobomb (can you say cold and gravelly?), deep thoughts from Zoobombers, and narration from a strange-sounding Reverend Phil.
Yesterday, Portland’s royal couple of cyclocross, Rhonda Mazza and Erik Tonkin raced in Belgium at the Cyclocross World Championships.
According to reports, Rhonda came in 11th and Erik battled to a very respectable 43rd place against the best cross racers in the world.
Photos of the duo battling the brutal course appeared this morning on mega-popular bike racing site, CyclingNews.com. Here’s Erik battling the sand, and one of Rhonda looking very focused.
Also making their presence known, was a group of supporters representing our very own Cross Crusade Series, who made the trip to cheer on the Americans.
For the second time in a row, Oregonian columnist Renee Mitchell has devoted her column (which appears on the front page of the Metro section) to the power of the pedal.
Last Wednesday she wrote about how the community came together to recover Erin Greeson’s $2,000 stolen bike. Now, in this morning’s edition she again writes about the powerful potential of the bike community.
Today, in her column titled Putting pedal power to work on attitudes, she details the recent dialogue we’ve been having on this site about neighborhood safety and how bikes can be a part of community building in Portland neighborhoods.
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It’s been forever since I last posted a stolen bike recovery story.
This time, the story comes from S. Renee Mitchell’s column in the Oregonian last week. She has the story of Erin Greeson’s high-end carbon-fiber racing bike getting nabbed from New Seasons in Sellwood:
