Velodrome backer Steve Brown and Jay Isaac with the Trail Blazers see potential for a velodrome at this location.
–Google Map here–
–Google Map here–
Day: August 11, 2009
‘Performance’ rap music video pokes fun at roadies, fixed gear riders
Still from Performance.
(Watch it below)
(Watch it below)
Local road racers Robin Moore and Jake Salcone have put together a hilarious music video called Performance that skewers the fashion and behavior of roadies and fixed gear riders.
The video is set in Portland and the song contains some stinging lines about fashion-conscious fixed gear riders by a roadie rapper named MC SpandX.
“An anodized chain, cards in your spokes… how can you ride, your pants are a joke?” goes one of the lines.
This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time. While it’s harsh on fixed gear riders, the MC SpandX is so over the top about himself he actually ends up making just as much fun of himself.
Watch MC SpandX lay it down rap-style against the fixie set…
Brown/White Scott Sub 30 Classic 2009
Year: 2009
Brand: Scott
Model: Sub 30 Classic
Color:Brown/White
Size:Large
Serial: GH891151 11080576
Stolen in Portland, OR
Stolen:2009-08-11
Stolen From: Downtown bike rake late Monday Night
Neighborhood: Downtown Portland
Owner: Arthur Moore
OwnerEmail: artiemo@gmail.com
Description: Lights front and back
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 09071371
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Brown Scott Sub 30 Classic 2009
Year: 2009
Brand: Scott
Model: Sub 30 Classic
Color:Brown
Size:Satin
Serial: 780-970-0037
Stolen in Portland, OR
Stolen:2009-08-11
Stolen From: Downtown bike rack during the late night or early morning
Neighborhood: Downtown
Owner: Arthur Moore
OwnerEmail: artiemo@gmail.com
Description: brown, stock with front light and back light
Police record with: waiting for call back
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
ODOT will delve deeper for Oregon City bridge closure access solution
Oregon City Mayor Alice Norris (left) and
Clackamas County Chair Lynn Peterson learn
about the bridge from an
ODOT engineer.
(Photos: ODOT)
Clackamas County Chair Lynn Peterson learn
about the bridge from an
ODOT engineer.
(Photos: ODOT)
Last Friday, the Oregon Department of Transportation hosted a tour of the Oregon City/West Linn Arch Bridge. The bridge is slated for a major, two-year renovation project and ODOT is faced with having to figure out how to maintain non-motorized access across the river during the closure.
So far, ODOT has not figured out a solution and they are acutely aware that bike advocates, elected officials and other community members want to make sure that adequate, non-motorized access options will be provided for.
Update on bike-sharing: City launches new survey, website
A bike from Montreal’s Bixi
bike sharing system.
(Photo: Steve Durrant/Alta Planning)
bike sharing system.
(Photo: Steve Durrant/Alta Planning)
With the first of their two bike sharing demonstrations coming Friday to Waterfront Park (followed by an event at Sunday Parkways this weekend), the City of Portland has ramped up its efforts to inform the public about how the system might work. They’ve also launched a new survey to garner feedback.
The survey is available online and PBOT project manager Steve Hoyt-McBeth says it will also be given via paper at the demonstration events. The survey asks a variety of questions, including; how often you’d use a bike sharing service in the Central City, how much you’d pay for an annual membership, whether or not you currently have access to a bicycle, what type of trips you usually take by bike, and so on.
Local bike shop runs Cash for Clunkers sales promo
Joe Doebele of Joe Bike
(Photo © J. Maus)
(Photo © J. Maus)
Since it doesn’t look like the Obama Administration is coming out with a Clunkers for Bikes option to their Cash for Clunkers program any time soon, a local Portland bike shop owner has taken it upon himself to introduce his own version.
Joe Doebele, owner of Joe Bike, will take $50-$100 off the purchase of a new bike when customers bring in a repairable clunker. Joe says his mechanics get last word on whether or not the bike is “repairable”. If it is, he will issue the rebate and then donate the old bike to a local non-profit (like the Community Cycling Center, Bike Farm, etc…).
The promotion will run through the end of August. Learn more at Joe-Bike.com.
Want to win a custom bike? At Tour de Fat, all it takes is a car and a commitment
The Tour de Fat is coming!
(Photos © J. Maus)
(Photos © J. Maus)
The Tour de Fat is making its annual stop in Portland on Saturday. In addition to good beer, live entertainment, a rollicking downtown bike parade, and other surprises, the show will feature what has become a highlight of the event in recent years — the car-for-bike swap.
Since it was founded in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1991, New Belgium Brewing’s Tour de Fat has been based around the idea of spreading the good word about cycling (the company gives all proceeds to bike-related non-profits). This year the traveling circus of bike fun will hit 11 cities. At each stop, one lucky applicant is selected to get a custom city bike made by Black Sheep Bikes. The only condition is that they must give up their car keys and commit to going carfree for an entire year.