Stolen Novara Bonita

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Small women’s Novara Bonita mountain bike with road tires. Lime green and white paint with black fixtures. Disk breaks, toe clips and a black water bottle holder. There are small green flowers on the stem under the seat. 24 speed (i think)

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Stolen Mizutani Seraph Spree

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She is a vintage brown road bike, with a hard seat, black handle bar tape, no racks or fenders, 21 speed. I have no serial number, but a defining characteristic is a plate on the stem tube of a dog with it’s tongue out.

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PINK "love courier service" coming to Portland

If I told you about a collective of cyclists and artists that started a movement called PINK to spread love by delivering notes around the city while wearing pink jumpsuits and pedaling pink bicycles, you might think it’s a natural fit for Portland.

After all, this city has serious penchant for pink, bikes, and love.

Sprockettes at the Summit

The Sprockettes are all about
pink, bikes and love.

We’ve got our lovely, pink, mini-bike pedaling Sprockettes, we’ve got Team Veloshop, whose official motto is “Bring on the pink” (and they already wear pink jumpsuits!), we’ve got an ex-messenger framebuilder who builds pink bikes, we’ve got Shift, who promotes bike love events like their Bike Kiss-ins, and so on…

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Tour of Flanders, Portland-style

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Yesterday I received an anonymous email about a mysterious, “penniless, suffering, pirate ride” coming to Portland next week (4/7).

The flyer (below) proclaims it will be:

“a test of 18 (or so) nasty climbs of West Portland in honor of De Ronde Van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders).”

Sounds like a suffer-fest. Here’s the route, and you’ve got to love the flyer:

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Third track added as velodrome bill rolls on

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Sen. Floyd Prozanski wants
a velodrome in Eugene.

Today was another great day for cycling in Salem. On Tuesday we made solid progress in fixing an outdated law, and today the velodrome bill (S.B. 926) — which seeks $3.5 million of State Lottery funds to build velodromes — gained not just valuable political support, it also gained one more track.

Sen. Floyd Prozanski (D) showed up to the hearing with an amendment to the bill that calls for a third velodrome to be built in the Eugene area.

He told members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (of which he’s also a member), that cycling has, “mushroomed beyond what people may realize.”

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Velodrome bill moves forward, with amendment

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Great news from Salem. I just got out of a hearing for Senate Bill 926.

The big news is that not only did the bill moved forward with a unanimous recommendation from this committee, but Senator Floyd Prozanski proposed an amendment to build a third velodrome in the Eugene area.

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Stolen Schwinn Moab

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MOAB 3- Blue and white mountain bike converted to commuter. Has black front fork (shocks removed ) and re-geared for street use. Rack on back. Heavily used bike.

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