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Stolen Trek 1200

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It is a crome road bike with black and red highlights. it has mostly bontrager parts and is completely stock. The hadle bar tape is started to come of on one side so it looks really un even. It got stolen under the morrison bridge.

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Stolen Trek 1200

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My bicycle recently got stolen under the morrison bridge. Its chrome colored with black and red highlights on the frame. It has mostly Bontrager parts. Its all stock parts. If you see it the hadle bar tape was starting to come off so it looks really un even on one side.

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Stolen Felt 85

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2003 road bike with ultegra clipless pedals, a seat rack, serfas saddle – been on lots of tours with me

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Help identify potential bicycle boulevard streets

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Bicycle Boulevards, like this one on NE
Tillamook, are safer for families.
File photo: 3/31/07

As part of a course on Community Development, a group of Portland State University students are helping the BTA plan a bicycle boulevard network in north and northeast Portland.

They’ve developed a short survey to identify streets that might be candidates for development into bicycle boulevards. According to one of the project leaders,

“This input will constitute the rough data, as we will take piecemeal stretches of bike-friendly roads and connect them together in a network plan.”

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Women meet to tackle cycling’s gender divide

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Janis McDonald at the Alice Awards.
File photo: 3/10/07

Three years ago, Janis McDonald had a dream; to get more women on bikes. That passion led to the creation of PDOT’s Women on Bikes program, which McDonald has spearheaded at her day job in the Transportation Options division of the Office of Transportation.

That program has been a great success, but McDonald knows there is even more work to be done. That’s why she, along with Barb Grover of the Bike Gallery and Alison Hill of the Community Cycling Center, recently organized a meeting to discuss how they can break down to barriers to cycling for women.

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