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Day: June 18, 2009

blue Trek 1100

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Brand: Trek
Model: 1100
Color:blue
Size:52cm
Photo: http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/2336/dsc05279r.jpg
Stolen in Portland, OR 97215
Stolen:2009-06-18
Stolen From: SE Belmont & SE 51st. inside my house.
Neighborhood: Belmont
Owner: Julia Spahle
OwnerEmail: spahleism@gmail.com
Description: bontranger seat post, blue selle italia saddle, full shimano 105s biopace crank set, continental tires, matrix wheels,shimano ultegra pedals, one yellow water bottle cage, yellow fizik handle bar tape, a cycle oregon band around the handlebar post, and an old bike gallery sticker on the inner bar.
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike

yellow/blue Cilo men’s road frame 1980’s

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Year: 1980’s
Brand: Cilo
Model: men’s road frame
Color:yellow/blue
Size:51cm
Serial: n/a
Photo: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a231/twinky78/rfdp1.jpg?t=1245378294
Stolen in Portland, OR 97212
Stolen:2008-10-28
Stolen From: Chevron on MLK & NE Fremont
Neighborhood: Eliot
Owner: Emily O’Connor
OwnerEmail: emwings@gmail.com
Reward: $100
Description: unique Cilo frame, lugged, porter bars, blue track grips, large wire basket, 6 one-of-a-kind spoke cards, “ride fast die pretty” & “emily b. wings” blue decals on top tube. selle seat, bianchi hubs & rims, nitto stem, stronglite crank set, planet bike fenders.
Police record with: 08107490
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

blue/silver Scott Reflex 30

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Brand: Scott
Model: Reflex 30
Color:blue/silver
Serial: GH578884
Stolen in Portland, OR 97204
Stolen:2009-06-18
Stolen From: Powell + 33rd
Neighborhood: Creston-Kenilworth
Owner: Lauren Kemp
OwnerEmail: laurencfkemp@yahoo.com
Description: Not sure the exact size, but frame is fairly short and there is a black rack over the rear tire
Police record with: 0953859
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Oberstar’s $500B T-bill would establish livability office, U.S. bike route system

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National Bike Summit 07

Rep. Jim Oberstar speaking at the 2007
National Bike Summit.
(Photos © J. Maus)

Today — the man who just two years ago stood in front of 2,000 Cycle Oregon riders in lycra shorts (after he himself battled the day’s grueling climb) and told them he would “thread the language of bicycles into the federal transportation bill” — got his chance when he submitted The Surface Transportation Authorization Act of 2009 to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

U.S. Congressman James Oberstar, who is Chairman of that committee and a towering figure in the American bike movement, has presented the proposal along with House colleagues Peter DeFazio, John Mica, and John Duncan.

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City wins award from Travel Portland: Platinum ranking a draw for tourists

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Portland’s Platinum award
is a draw for tourists.
(Photos © J. Maus)

Travel Portland has announced that they’ll give the City of Portland their top tourism promotion award at their 30th annual Tourism and Hospitality Industry Awards Celebration being held next week at the Oregon Convention Center.

Travel Portland — a private non-profit that works to promote the metro area as a destination — will give the City the “Portland Award” for its work in “creating and sustaining a Platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Community.

According to Travel Portland, the award recognizes the, “top overall contribution to the region’s visitor profile.”

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Report: Bike Camping 101

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[Thanks to event organizer Matt Picio of Cycle Wild for providing this recap via the Shift list.]

Last night, Tomas Quinones and I held Cycle Wild’s 5th Bike Camping 101 class. We held this class at last year’s Pedalpalooza in Colonel Summers Park, and we returned there for an encore presentation. In
2008, we had about 40 attendees. This year, we started with about 20-25 attendees but were up to 40 by 1/2 hour into the presentation, and topped out at 52 people during the last 20 minutes or so before we opened the floor for questions.

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Black/Yellow Felt F55 2005

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Year: 2005
Brand: Felt
Model: F55
Color:Black/Yellow
Size:56cm
Photo: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/images/felt-f55-08.jpg
Stolen in Portland, OR 97201
Stolen:2009-05-28
Stolen From: Bike was stolen from the parking garage of the 200 Market Building (the Black Box) in downtown Portland, located @ 200 SW Market St.
Neighborhood: SW Downtown
Owner: Kyle Hunter
OwnerEmail: heitz1978@gmail.com
Reward: 100
Description: Black Felt F55, with yellow grip tape. Full Ultegra 9-speed double, BOA carbon bottle cages, Ridley bars, Bontrager Race X-lite wheels, new Blue Hutchinson tires, Speedplay pedals
Police record with: Det. Joe Luiz
Police reference#: 09-46908
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Report/photos: Public Art Ride

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About 25 riders converged downtown over the lunch hour yesterday for a tour around some public works of art, led by Ben Foote of ON Gallery.

Many of the pieces were funded by the the state’s 1% for Art rule, which requires publicly funded projects to spend 1% of their budget on public art. This includes much of the new construction in the Pearl, as well as transit spending.

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A Q&A with London bike planner Steve Cardno

[Steve Cardno is the project manager for the London Cycling Network Plus (LCN+) project. After meeting Portland Bureau of Transportation traffic safety specialist Greg Raisman at the recent Velo-City conference, Cardno decided to spend his vacation here to soak up our bike-mosphere. He stopped by our office on Monday for a chat.

I asked him what London is doing to increase bike use, how they are dealing with bike/truck collisions, how their congestion pricing program has impacted biking, and more.]

What’s your role with the City of London?

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Steve Cardno, project manager for
the London Cycle Network.
(Photo © J. Maus)

“I work for the London Borough of Camdem. There are 33 boroughs and Camden is the lead borough for cycling in London. We are project managers for the London Cycling Network Plus (LCN+) project, that is a 900 km bikeway network across greater London. We have been building this project in collaboration with the 33 boroughs and Transport for London (TFL), who are paying for the project, since 2002. The project is due to be completed by the end 2010.”

[Note: Cardno’s work is focused on the network of “borough roads”, which exclude the TFL’s “red routes”. (Red routes are primary, strategic roads that account for 20% of the LCN+.)]

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