Year: 1996?
Brand: cannondale
Model: r400
Color:dark green
Size:52 cm
Stolen in portland, OR 97211
Stolen:2009-10-31
Stolen From: 15th and prescott in front of the bodega, across from Tiga
Neighborhood: Alberta
Owner: Quinn Dannies
OwnerEmail: qdannies@gmail.com
Description: white handle bar tape, cheap tires, rsx components on everything but the left hand shifter
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike
Month: October 2009
white frame, red lettering Miyata 912 1984
Year: 1984
Brand: Miyata
Model: 912
Color:white frame, red lettering
Size:51cm
Serial: ?
Stolen in Portland, OR 97211
Stolen:2009-10-31
Stolen From: 21st and Alberta. Stolen out of my backyard.
Neighborhood: NE (Alberta Arts District)
Owner: Misty Dodd
OwnerEmail: misty.seminara@gmail.com
Reward: Yes
Description: White frame, red lettering. Black and red seat. White “mountain rack” on the back, and red bottle holder on the lower part of the frame.
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Want to be like Copenhagen? Think about vacuum cleaners and raging bulls
PBOT’s Roger Geller took a spin
before last night’s event.
(Photos © J. Maus)
If Portland wants to push cycling into the mainstream, and reach usage levels similar to European cities, we need to make it easy, focus on the positives, tame automobiles, and do our research to counter anti-bike sentiment. That was some of the advice given by Copenhagenize’s Mikael Colville-Andersen at a sold-out event last night.
Colville-Andersen — who’s on a tour through the U.S. sponsored by the Danish Embassy — joined Mayor Sam Adams for a special reception for the Dreams on Wheels exhibit which is currently on display at the Oregon Manifest Bike Union in Northwest Portland. He started the night out with a presentation titled, Marketing Bicycle Culture: Five Goal to Promote Urban Bicycling.
Job of the Week
Are you a mechanic with management experience? Are you a manager with mechanical aptitude? A new opportunity was posted to BikePortland’s Job board this week for somebody who wants to manage a local bike shop.
See details below. Tell them you read it here.
- Shop Manager — A Portland Bikeshop
New railcars for WES give TriMet a bike car option
(Photo © Todd Boulanger)
PBOT issues first ever ‘Bicycle Traffic Advisory’
The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation has just issued an advisory to warn “the bicycling public” (that has a much better ring to it than “bicyclists”) of a construction project that will close a popular bicycle boulevard.
According to spokesperson Cheryl Kuck, this is the City’s first ever bicycle-specific traffic advisory. “I’m sending out a regular traffic advisory, too, but we thought we’d get the word out specifically to our bike media to alert bicyclists to the closure.”
I love it.
Here’s the advisory:
Is our bike scene too white? Local non-profit tackles the issue
“The people riding and making decisions about bicycles is a white, middle class group.”
— Alison Hill Graves, Community Cycling Center
The staff at Community Cycling Center, a 15 year old Portland-based nonprofit that aims to increase access to bicycling, has been doing some soul searching in the last few years.
In the process, community and programs director Alison Hill Graves says they started looking around the area they serve (a five-mile radius around their NE 17th and Alberta retail shop). “We saw a big divide in terms of who’s riding bikes and who isn’t.”
Or, to put it more plainly, “The people riding and making decisions about bicycles is a white, middle class group.”
A look at Copenhagen and Portland traffic, circa the 1930s
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In light of Portland’s ongoing love-affair with Copenhagen, and the fact that Mr. Bicycle Copenhagen is in town at this very moment (prepping for the big event tonight), I thought it’d be fun to take a look at the transportation legacy of our respective cities.
New downtown park gets parking right
The City of Portland opened up a new downtown park earlier this week. Director Park, a former parking lot (that’s now underground), occupies a full city block (bordered by SW Park and 9th to the east and west, and Taylor and Yamhill to the south and north). It’s a new public space that the City refers to as “a piazza in the heart of downtown.”
Here’s a bit of history from our friends at Neighborhood Notes:
“Nearly ten years ago Mayor Vera Katz launched a vision for Portland’s Downtown District, one that would extend the city’s public spaces in corridors that run both east and west—and north and south—intersecting in a very special park in the center of it all. Director Park is that place.”
Behind the Monday Roundup: Where we get our transpo news
A question we get a lot here at BikePortland is “Where do you get all your story ideas?”.
Most of our sources are top secret and will stay that way (just kidding, sort of), but here’s a rundown of a few of the places I go to gather tips for our weekly Monday Roundup post and to generally stay in the loop on transportation news and culture.
Weekend Event Guide
It’s going to rain, it’s going to be cold, and it’s going to be Halloween. There are plenty of opportunities to get into the spirit, costumed or otherwise. Want to ride into the dawn in celebration of bike fun? Move an antique bedroom set on your bike? Ride competitively through a muddy field? Or stay warm and dry while debating the merits of Copenhagen-style bike culture, or ogling handbuilt bike frames? As always, there’s something for everyone.
Thursday, October 29th
6:30pm – 10:30pm: Oregon Manifest: Bicycle Culture from Copenhagen to Portland
A panel discussion with unofficial Danish cycling ambassador Mikael Colville-Andersen, Portland Mayor Sam Adams, and reporter and bike author Jeff Mapes. $10 gets you food, beer, and lively debate over how we can make the best bicycling city. Also serves as the grand opening of the Dreams on Wheels exhibit (of which Colville-Andersen is the photographer). 539 NW Hoyt.
A first for Forest Park singletrack plans: Opposition
Gregg Everheart enjoys a rare piece of
Forest Park single track.
(Photos © J. Maus)
Ever since citizen activist Frank Selker launched his grassroots campaign to garner support for more bicycle access in Forest Park, progress has followed at a steady clip.
The community responded quickly, business support followed, and even City Commissioner Nick Fish added his support to the effort. But all along, even as momentum and the coalition of advocacy grew around the issue, opposition simmered under the lid. Now, with the formation of an official Parks Bureau committee to look into how increased bike access will play out, those opposing voices are being heard.
Comment of the Week: Tolling Schmolling