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If you’ve ever ridden a tall bike, you can understand the attraction: Finally, for the first time in your bike-riding life, you’re not just traffic, you’re above traffic.
There’s something exciting and fun about pedaling at such heights. Do it with a few friends and it’s even better. That was the basic inspiration that led southeast Portlander Skye Blue to create Portland’s newest bike gang, The Irondelles.
“I know she wasn’t responsible [for the fee], but I was still tempted to ask her, ‘how much are you charging for golf clubs again?'”
— Slate Olson, upon being told his bike would cost $175 each way
On Wednesday, May 20th, Portlander Slate Olson was headed to Washington D.C. on a business trip when a woman working the United Airlines ticket counter at Portland International Airport (PDX) told him it would be $175 to take his bicycle along. Each way.
Olson wrote to me later that, “I know she wasn’t responsible, but I was still tempted to ask her, ‘how much are you charging for golf clubs again?” (Golf clubs fly free on United).
Olson’s experience has put him on a mini-campaign to rid PDX of baggage fees for bikes.
Olson is the general manager for Rapha, a U.K.-based bike clothing company with its North American headquarters in Portland. The way Olson sees it, if Portland wants to continue to be the spot for bicycling and bike tourism, this issue needs to be resolved.
Year: 80’s?
Brand: Nishiki
Color:Grey with chrome tipped forks
Size:56cm
Stolen in Portland, OR 97214
Stolen:2009-06-6
Stolen From: My bike was stolen from Portland State University between Nueberger Hall and Smith Hall, next to SW Broadway and Harrision.
Neighborhood: Downtown – SW – PSU
Owner: nik ayres
OwnerEmail: nik.ayres@gmail.com
Reward: $200
Description: It is an old Grey Steel Frame Nishiki Road Bike. It has a Sun CR18 27-inch rear rim with a Formula 32-spoke flip-flop hub(single-speed/fixie).It has Shimano SPD Dual Platform Road Bicycle Pedals, one white handle bar wrap and one red handle bar wrap, with only the front brake on the left handle bar.
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Imagine using the popular Streetview function of Google Maps on your favorite local bike path.
Well, according to an article published today in USA Today, that might be possible sooner than you think.
Google made waves back in May when images of their new photo-trike hit the Internet.
Some people immediately realized that the smaller footprint of the trike (they typically use cars) would allow Google to expand their Streetview offering to off-highway paths. Now, USA Today reports that they’ve deployed the trike to a bike trail in Monterey, California.
From the article:
“Much of the world is inaccessible to the car,” says Daniel Ratner, a Google senior engineer who designed the trike. “We want to get access to places people find important.”
Cascadia Rising Tide — a grassroots network of activists that, “take direct action to confront the roots causes of climate change and promote local, community-based solutions to the climate crisis” — will lead a ride next week exploring areas of North Portland that will be impacted by the Columbia River Crossing (CRC) project.
Calling the CRC “our region’s biggest threat to bicycles and the people that love them,” Rising Tide has decided to do the ride during Shift’s Pedalpalooza event (which kicks off Thursday).