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Bike trailers, big loads show Portland spirit

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random bike homes

When a rack is your closet, bed, kitchen, bathroom…

In the past, I’ve brought you stories of the ingenious trailers and cargo-bike contraptions used by Portland’s homeless and low-income population.

Remember Bill and Buster and their bike move that never ends? Or how about Mike Colhour’s bike-based scrap metal recycling business? And we can’t forget Allen’s shopping-cart trailer, or the “flip-flop fender” and baseball bat trailer hitch.

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CCC serves up slick new website

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Screen grab of CCC’s new site

Northeast Portland-based non-profit, the Community Cycling Center, has launched a new website.

The site is much friendlier to navigate than the old one (which had become quite a behemoth over the years) and they’re using WordPress (just like BikePortland) to make it all happen. Hosting is being donated by EasyStreet and they’ve even got an RSS feed so you can keep up with all their latest news.

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