The Bureau of Planning has canceled a community workshop that would have began a discussion about a preferred strategy to tackle a re-design of the 7 Corners intersection (where SE Division, Ladd, 20th, and 21st streets converge).
Day: October 29, 2008
PUMP announces annual Bike Swap Meet
The Portland United Mountain Pedalers have just announced their annual Bike Swap Meet event. Details and flyer are below…
The Pigeons have landed: Legendary Chinese bicycles now available in Portland
The Flying Pigeon (starts at $350) was an institution during China’s biking heyday. Now they’re available in Portland.
(Photos: Joe Doebele)
(Photos: Joe Doebele)
Preview party will welcome Madsen SUBs to Portland [Updated]
Get to know the Madsen SUB.
The Hollywood Bike Gallery store will host a preview party to welcome the newest addition to Portland’s growing cargo and utility-bike family — the Madsen Cycles Urban Utility Bicycle.
Advisory: ODOT crews working at Interstate/Greeley
ODOT maintenance crews have begun excavation work in preparation of the Brett Jarolimek memorial that will be installed at N. Interstate and Greeley.
Crews are installing paving stones and doing a general clean-up. ODOT wants everyone to be aware that their trucks will be in the vicinity as the work continues through this week.
The bike lane remains open, but please use caution when coming down that hill.
$4 no more: Gas prices drop, has biking followed?
That was then (04/22/08)…
What a difference a few months makes.
Back in April, high gas prices were on everyone’s mind — especially those in the bike business. The rising cost of gas was having an impact on people’s transportation habits like no advocacy effort of policy change ever could.
River City Bicycles takes ad campaign to the airwaves
“It’s fun putting together advertising directed at more of the general public. I just try to put myself in their place and think of a message that might crack through.
River City Bicycles owner Dave Guettler
If you watch local network television, you might be surprised to see a commercial for River City Bicycles. It’s not typical for a local bike shop to produce a TV ad, but River City’s Dave Guettler, is not a typical bike shop owner.
Guettler is known for his creative ad campaigns. Back in March, BikePortland contributor Carl Larson wrote that his ads go “beyond the ordinary”.
Bike/truck crash at SE Stark and Grand [UPDATED]
Police and medical personnel attend
to the victim of a bike/truck collision at
SE Grand and Stark this morning.
(Photos © J. Maus)
to the victim of a bike/truck collision at
SE Grand and Stark this morning.
(Photos © J. Maus)
This morning at just before 9:00 am, a man driving a Ford F150 XL pickup and a woman riding a 1980s Peugeot ten-speed style bicycle collided in the intersection of SE Stark and SE Grand Ave in Portland’s Central Eastside.
According to medical personnel on the scene, the woman on the bike (who looked to be between 20-25 years of age) sustained facial and head trauma and was taken to OHSU for further evaluation. She was coherent and was able to make a statement to officers before being taken away on a stretcher.*