The Portland Free Store at SE 11th & Clay(Photos © Elly Blue)

There's yet another new bike-based business in town -- the difference is that at this store, everything is free.
The Portland Free Store is, according to its website, "basically a second-hand store, except that everything is free." People can drop off donations at the [...]

29 bike-themed posters attracted quite a crowd last night.-Slideshow below-(Photos © J. Maus)

The latest evidence of the intersection between bicycles and Portland's First Thursday art scene (remember the handmade bike show back in August?) was on full display at the debut of the Artcrank Poster Show last night.
29 Portland artists were part of the event [...]

Year: 2006Brand: GTModel: i-Drive 3.0Color:BlueStolen in Portland, OR 97210Stolen:2009-10-01Stolen From: Bike parking near Broadway and Mill outside of Cramer Hall.Neighborhood: Downtown S.W. Portland (near Portland State University)Owner: Steven GlazerOwnerEmail: hexsmith@gmail.comReward: 100Description: Blue GT i-Drive 3.0 (dual suspension) with new handle bars (extra wide), vertical climbing bars, white light on front, red light on back, black [...]

Cross Crusade is here! (Photo © J. Maus)

This year, bike event season seems to only have sped up as the weather has gotten cooler. Tonight's grand opening of the Artcrank poster show marks the beginning of six weeks of Oregon Manifest. The Manifest's flagship events are also this weekend, in which 30 framebuilders are [...]

A few weeks ago we wrote about a series of educational videos being created by new local org Intersection 911.
The first video urged viewers to stop and help out people who have a flat tire or other mechanical problems.
The second video, released this week, urges viewers to pass on the left, and to exit [...]

Torsten Kjellstrand(Photo © J. Maus)

The seasoned crew of professional photographers that publish the PDXCross blog are back at it again for 2009. Last year, "the improbable group of un-hipsters" established their site as a must-visit destination following the weekend's cross action.
Their photographs are poignant, expressive, exciting, and funny -- and that's just a few [...]

Here are BikePortland's traffic stats from the month of September, 2009.
The most popular post of the month, after being noticed by news aggregator Fark, was our story about the beer-pouring, pizza-delivering, fully amplified Hopworksfiets built by local company Metrofiets.
Following in popularity on BikePortland in September (counted by page views using Google Analytics) was [...]

Kids ruled the streets at Tour de Ladd last year.(Photos © J. Maus)

Just got the announcement and details about the second annual Tour de Ladd event. I attended this last year and it was excellent. Tons of schoolkids doing laps on carfree streets around the Ladd's Addition neighborhood. What could be better?
The Tour [...]

A stock Swobo Otis. Ace Hotel's bikes have been customized for Portland streets (and weather) by local bike shops.

The Ace Hotel in downtown Portland is set to unveil a new fleet of customized Swobo bicycles that can be checked out by guests.
Back in December of 2006, The Ace was at the head of the Dutch [...]

Outside the Bagdad last night.(Photos © J. Maus)

[Publisher's note: This review is by our Family Biking columnist Marion Rice. Marion's last column explored safety and cultural issues around carrying infants by bike.]

Griffin and dad test riding the FollowMe.(Photos © J. Maus)