Day: November 17, 2008
Help needed in hit-and-run incident near Ross Island Bridge
The following incident was posted on PDXFixed this evening…
On my way to work yesterday (about 2:30), I was going down Moody, just past the Ross Island Bridge. I saw someone on a red road bike get hit by a black sedan, then the sedan drove off.
Front wheel looked all fucked up. Roadie started getting up and seemed alright so I pursued the car. Caught up to him 4 or 5 blocks later at a stopped intersection and got his LP number (while he got out of his car, told me to “mind my own fucking business,” and started to approach me in a threatening way). I rode back to where said cyclist was hit, but he was gone.
Is this anyone on here or anyone’s friend? I’d really like to get that info to the person so they can get their ride fixed.
If you saw this incident or have any information that might help, please contact us and we’ll make sure your information is passed on to the proper person.
Municipal Bicycle Pump, Stockholm
(Photo: Lindsey Maser)
Check out Vancouver’s new bike resource card
in the palm of your hand.
(Larger views below)
(Photo: Jennifer Campos)
The City of Vancouver Washington (just a few short miles north of downtown Portland) has a new bicycle resource card available.
According to Jennifer Campos, a planner in Vancouver’s transportation department, the card is small, portable, and provides all the basic info a bicyclist needs including; who to call for cars parked in the bike lane, traffic signals that aren’t working, potholes or other obsructions in the street, and transit information.
Car recall spoof in NY Times Special Edition
[via Cyclelicious]
Here’s an entertaining bit of guerilla marketing. Check out the recall notice below that appeared in the recent New York Times Special Edition (a face edition of the paper).
Cross photos will become “Dirty Pictures” book
on Portland cyclocross images.
One of the biggest stories about this year’s cyclocross season (besides the record crowds) has been the emergence of PDXCross.com.
The site launched back in September and offers a weekly photo slideshow of all the glorious, painful and muddy action. The work is a collaboration between a team of professional photographers who are self-described as an, “improbable group of un-hipsters” who “love photography and cyclocross.”
45 days in jail for man who drove with someone on his hood
KGW reports that James Millican, who ran down and then drove with Jason Rehnberg on his hood after Rehnberg (who was on his bike) told him to slow down, has been sentenced to 45 days in jail.
Along with jail, the 21-year-old Millican must do 160 hours of community service, pay Rehnberg $800 for lost wages, and be on probation for three years. Millican was charged with unlawful use of a weapon, DUI, and attempted assault (second degree).
Dooring warning, Portland-style
(Photo © J. Maus)
The Monday Roundup
good for our health and our air.
(Photo: Esther Harlow in the
BikePortland.org Flickr Photo Pool.)
Hold on to your seats folks, here’s your Monday Roundup…
- A new study in California has found that more people are killed by the effects of polluted air than by car crashes. The study tallies the cost to society of dirty air at $28 billion a year.
- A Netherlands-based cycling research organization is concerned that bicycles are disappearing from Asia as cities and roads are increasingly planned around cars and motorcycles.
- The Mercury’s Sarah Mirk was doored while biking up Glisan and tells a good story about it on their blog.
New bike shop, tour company opens on N. Williams
A new bike shop has opened its doors on the corner of N. Page and N. Williams Ave (map). Metropolis Cycle Repair is owned by Nathan Roll and he shares the space with his brother Todd, who operates Pedal Bike Tours.
I stopped by Metropolis on Friday and chatted with Nathan and Todd. Nathan said he lives in the neighborhood and has been looking for an opportunity to open his own shop for years. In the past two years, he’s moved Metropolis from his garage, to working out of BicyclingHub.com’s retail location in the Central Eastside, and finally to his own space.