February 2007 Archives

Job: Environmental Policy Director – Commissioner Adams

Buffered Bike Lane with a bike symbol and arrow pointing forward

Job Title: City of Portland Environmental Policy Director/Liaison to the Bureau of Environmental Services for Commissioner Sam Adams

Qualified applicants will have experience with environmental policy, familiarity with Commissioner Adams and the Bureau of Environmental Services, and a demonstrated ability to build working relationships with and between citizens, interest groups, and businesses from all perspectives. If you are excited about the opportunity to work hard to help make Portland an economically and environmentally sustainable city, please submit a one-page cover letter, resume, three references, and a maximum five-page writing sample to:

Green Gary Fisher 2003 Wahoo medium bike. Road tires. Ergonomic seat. Toe cages. Rear rack.

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Stolen Univega mountain bike

womens univega mountain bike, dark navy blue. has an downward angled womens crotch bar, letters saying univega are white outlined in red. there used to be a sticker on the handle bars, where it used to be is sticker residue/peel.

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Job: Bike Mechanic, Sales – 21st Ave. Bicycles

Job Title – Bicycle Mechanic/ Sales person
Company/Organization – 21st Avenue Bicycles

Job Title – Sales Coordinator
Company/Organization – Free Geek

One year old Timberline LTD GT blue in color, cable lock cut and taken from a locked shed

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Belmont goes for on-street bike parking

[On-street bike parking, like this one at N. Shaver and N. Mississippi Streets, could be coming to SE Belmont.]

[Metro Councilor Rex Burkholder presents his resolution calling for more alternatives to be considered in the Columbia River Crossing process.]

[This is the third in a series of four interviews with local bike builders who are exhibiting at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show next weekend (March 2-4) in San Jose, California. Read previous interviews with Ira Ryan and Tony Pereira.]

[Joseph Ahearne in his shop.]

Joseph Ahearne of Ahearne Cycles has come a long way since his first trip to the Handmade Bicycle Show.

Back in 2005, without his own booth, he walked around the show with just a few parts strapped to his back.

If you ride on the Esplanade and the Springwater Corridor south of OMSI you know that there’s a ton of construction going.

In addition to the Big Pipe Project, ODOT is currently working on a $64 million project to replace the MLK/Grand Viaduct.

Dan Kaufman of CrankMyChain Cycle TV tipped me off about a new web TV series based on Portland’s bike culture.

[The Bicyclist is a new web
TV series based on Portland’s bike culture.]

Like any minority, as we work to move bicycles from an “alternative” mode of travel to a more widely used and mainstream transportation choice, we will be forced to defend deeply entrenched misconceptions and negative stereotypes.

Even in Portland, America’s most bike-friendly city, many folks still lump anyone who uses a bicycle into one big group of Critical Mass-loving, rampant law-breaking fanatics.

Job: Environmental Policy Director – Commissioner Adams

Stolen Gary Fisher Wahoo

Stolen Univega mountain bike

Job: Bike Mechanic, Sales – 21st Ave. Bicycles

Job: Sales Coordinator – Free Geek

Stolen GT Timberline LTD

Belmont goes for on-street bike parking

Crossing panel votes to include Metro amendment…sort of

Ahearne will display diversity at builder’s show

Expect more enforcement near viaduct construction zone

New web TV series based on Portland bike culture

Powerful misconceptions still drive the dialogue

Latest Headlines

Weekend Event Guide: Illuminated, All Bodies on Bikes, new library and more

Portland will daylight 200 intersections over next two years

Bike travel tales slideshow series kicks off Tuesday!

Woman killed on SE Cesar Chavez was Tuyet Nguyen, and she’s not latest victim

From the Archives

Escape from Portland with this easy loop on quiet forest roads above Trout Lake