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There is nothing extremely unique about my bike that makes it easily identifiable. It has a smart bar which is a straight bar that extends between the curves of the natural handlebar. It has front suspension, a light on both the front and the rear and that’s about all I can tell you!
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There is nothing extremely unique about my bike that makes it easily identifiable. It has a smart bar which a straight bar that extends between the curves of the natural handlebar. It has front suspension, a light on both the front and the rear and that’s about all I can tell you!
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“The steady growth in bicycle use presents an opportunity for the City to capitalize on the increased ridership by investing in safety and access improvements to attract a broader range of cyclists.”
–From PDOT bicycle count report.
Download PDF here.
The City of Portland Office of Transportation has just released their 21-page report detailing results of their 2007 bicycle counts (PDF here).
The report includes graphs and charts that reflect PDOT’s most comprehensive counting effort to date. This year, PDOT expanded its counts beyond the 60 locations done in 2006 to include a total of 98 sites.
As expected, their counts show a large increase in the amount of people riding bicycles in Portland.
Coming up in November is the first-ever Oregon Handmade Bicycle Show. Among the 25 vendors are some of Oregon’s most talented bicycle craftsmen.
Several well-known custom bike makers from Portland will be exhibiting. But in addition to the usual suspects, and in a nod to Portland’s distinct brand of bike building, the show will also feature builders known for a different kind of custom bike; minis and freak bikes.
Yes, alongside $3,000, meticulously crafted frames made to exacting tolerances will be bike creations culled from local dumpsters, then welded and bolted together by the DIY genius of Zoobombers and members of the Dropout Bike Club.
purple cannondale road bike with faded light grayish/white bar tape, frame has lots of black duck tap look to it. with a gray peice of duck tape too on top and drop tubes. a nice cushiony saddle.
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Blue mid 70s fastback with sparkly blue handgrips, handlebars slightly bent.
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Well, not exactly.
But reports are coming in that the Willamette Week (a free weekly newspaper in Portland) is running radio ads touting their new re-design and that one of them features a Zoobomber as the voiceover.
I haven’t heard it myself, but here’s how one tipster remembers it:
“I heard it on 95.5 (I stopped listening for several months after the unfortunate incident, and I never listen to that stupid “playhouse” show), anyways…
Tonight at the Portland Building a panel discussion is being held to encourage women to participate in bike racing.
Women for Bikes, a loose-knit volunteer group of advocates, hope to show that anyone can dive into racing and that it’s a whole lot of fun.
The panel will include: members of the Sorella Forte cycling club; Dani Dance, organizer of the Single Speed Cyclocross World Championships; and officials from the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association (OBRA), who will demystify the rules and regulations of racing.
[Post updated: 9/27, 11:42am]
At a meeting last week of the Portland Bicycle Advisory Committee (PBAC), TriMet Communications Manager Josh Collins shared details of TriMet’s plans to review 32 locations where bike paths and bike lanes cross MAX tracks.
The review makes good on a promise made by TriMet General Manager Fred Hansen to Sharon Fekety. Fekety broke her arm in three places when she slipped and fell while riding across a MAX track at I-205 and Burnside last March.
Since the incident, Fekety has been persistently lobbying TriMet to take a closer look at improving safety at that, and similar crossings. She maintains her initial claim that a greasy lubricant on the tracks (applied by TriMet) was the cause of her fall. TriMet has confirmed they use a lubricant, but they deny it was ever applied on or near the location where Fekety went down.
Two Portland-area mountain bike advocacy groups hacve been given the green light by Oregon State Parks to begin building a network of freeride and singletrack trails in the newly opened Stub Stewart State Park, a 1,600 acre park located just 31 miles west of Portland in Washington County.
According to Roger Louton of the Portland United Mountain Pedalers (PUMP), they will work closely with another local mountain bike trail advocacy group, the Westside Trail Federation (WTF).
Louton says they have the go-ahead to improve existing, secondary logging roads (aka “skid” roads that are about six feet wide) and build singletrack trails as long as they stay within 100 yards of the existing roads.
Next week over 30 elementary and middle schools in the Portland Metro area (and more than 80 statewide) will kick off the Safe Routes to School season by participating in Walk and Bike to School Day.
The event — which is celebrated worldwide — is organized by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA), the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition (WPC), the City of Portland Office of Transportation (PDOT), and a host of other agencies.
Organizers hope to beat last year’s record student participation and create excitement for the upcoming season of Safe Routes to School activities.
a smallish commuter bike, black novara buzz, kind of worn, the only word distinguishable is buzz. It has disc brakes and a rack on the back.
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