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Day: July 28, 2009

Blue 2 tone Trek 730 men’s 1994

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Year: 1994
Brand: Trek
Model: 730 men’s
Color:Blue 2 tone
Size:?
Serial:?
Stolen in Portland, OR 97213
Stolen:2009-01-26
Stolen From: Front of house
Neighborhood: Cully
Owner: Heather Buss
OwnerEmail: firewaterfairy@yahoo.com
Description: Has mountain bike handle bars, headlight & tail lights (one is magnetically pedal powered), blue bottle holder. Bike is dinged up and has original factory parts (no upgrades). Is blue on front and fades to a lighter blue. Also has shoe holders on peddles which have rusty latch straps. Fits a 5’5" rider with seat fully raised.
Police record with: Portland PD
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

BTA asks: What advocacy topics do you want to talk about?

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The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) is planning several “Advocacy Forums” later this summer. The forums are being held so the BTA can garner feedback and input on a variety of issues. In advance of the first event in mid-August, the BTA just released a survey asking the community what topics they’d like to discuss.

When asked for more information about the forums, BTA Advocacy Manager Michelle Poyourow wrote via email that,

“These forums are a chance for BTA staff to discuss some perennial bike advocacy issues with our members. We can bring our informed perspective – what we know from the latest research and data, national and international best practices, political realities – and we want to hear from our members what their concerns and priorities are and what they’d like to see the BTA champion.”

Poyourow added that the forums are only meant for BTA members, “since, after all, that is who is funding this advocacy work.” She notes that if someone’s membership has expired, they’ll be able to renew it at the event.

In the survey, there are two questions. Here is the first:

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In-Depth: Chasing the dream of online bike route planning

A sample route on byCycle.org.

Someday, you’ll be able to type two addresses into your computer and get customized directions for traveling between them — by bike. The addresses could be in the same city, or across the country. You could choose between different kinds of routes, or find out how to transfer to the bus or train for a leg of the trip.

That’s the dream, anyway. And it’s a dream being chased by a small, but determined band of bike-loving programmers and mapping experts across the country.

The idea of online bicycle route planning is at least as old as the advent of online driving direction programs such as MapQuest, and Portland became the epicenter of its realization in 2005 with the debut of byCycle.org.

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Faded red Schwin World Sport 70’s ?

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Year: 70’s ?
Brand: Schwin
Model: World Sport
Color:Faded red
Size:58cm ?
Serial: NA
Stolen in , OR
Stolen:2009-07-28
Stolen From: Near penisular park
Owner: Max Chandler
OwnerEmail: wolfbitebait@yahoo.com
Reward: $20
Description: Poor mans single speed. Entire right side of bike faded light pink. Sunrim back wheel. Marin mountain bike handle bars w/ carbon bull grips. Steel 3 pc crank lever set original.
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike

Morning news roundup

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I usually post several links to interesting bike news stories I come across each morning on my Twitter feed. But, if you don’t follow @BikePortland, here’s a few things you might have missed recently.

“Diez was apparently incensed by Alan Simons carrying his 3-year-old child on a seat mounted on the back of his bike.”
— From a story about shooting incident in the Citizen Times newspaper

The web is buzzing about a firefighter in Asheville, NC who shot his gun at a man who was riding his bike on a busy road. I still can’t fathom the who/why on this one. Reports say that the firefighter, Charles Diez, pulled over to talk to the man because, “he was upset that the victim was bike riding with his child on the heavily traveled Tunnel Road.”

Diez’s shot struck the man’s helmet, and barely missed his head. Diez is charged with attempted first-degree murder. The story has led to the usual editorial in a local paper (followed by scores of comments) about the “uneasy road” shared by “cyclists and motorists.”

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