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Day: November 30, 2009

Red/White Fuji CrossComp 2006

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Year: 2006
Brand: Fuji
Model: CrossComp
Color:Red/White
Size:54
Photo: http://www.bikepedia.com/Images/image.aspx?w=400&h=400&filename=2006-Fuji-Cross-Comp.jpg
Stolen in Portland, OR 97209
Stolen:2009-11-30
Stolen From: 10th and Flanders St, in front of the SkinniDip frozen yogurt store
Neighborhood: Pearl District
Owner: Eric Gregg
OwnerEmail: egregg@inavero.com
Reward: $150
Description: Has an underseat bike bag, a rack on back for panniers, and a a small bike computer on the handlebars.
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

At BikeCraft, rain capes and more from Sara Stout

sara in her shop

Sara Stout is busy creating
wonderful things for BikeCraft.
(Photos © Elly Blue)

I recently paid a visit to Sara Stout in the treehouse where she lives, paints, and tends to her bike fleet and aging dog Betty (a longtime fixture at bike moves). This week, the treehouse has been transformed into a BikeCraft factory, where Stout has been busily turning old materials into new, useful things.

When I dropped by, the final coat on a colorful tray of light-switch plate covers, was drying by the woodstove. Stout had moved on to making bicycle-shaped seat covers, with waterproof material above and a drawstring underneath.

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Pink Diamonback ?

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Year: ?
Brand: Diamonback
Color:Pink
Size:White
Stolen in Portland, OR 97210
Stolen:2009-11-28
Stolen From: Lloyd Center
Owner: Kyle Lattimer
OwnerEmail: kylelattimer@gmail.com
Description: The bike was just purchased from the police warehouse in Salem so the bike should have some serial numbers written on the bike with red marker. The bike is half pink and half white. That is all the information I have. Please Help!
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

BikePortland social this Thursday: What’s the state of bike advocacy?

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BikePortland Social Hour-1.jpg

The first BikePortland social in 2008
(Photo © J. Maus)

What is the state of bicycle advocacy in the nation’s most bicycle-friendly city?

Join us this Thursday for an informal discussion of just that. Come talk and learn about recent staffing shake-ups at the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, the Community Cycling Center’s efforts to reach out to minority populations, carfree activism, Critical Mass, Idaho Stop, cycle tracks, bicycle funding, and the grassroots advocacy initiatives that never stop cropping up.

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The Monday Roundup

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Hit and run on a bike; bike laws (pro- and anti-); how to save the bus system; high speed rail; seat belts on the motorcoach; Rosa Parks revisited; the art of bike safety

Here’s the news that caught our eye this week:

– Prominent medical journal The Lancet has published a study that includes a strong recommendation of funding biking and walking infrastructure over roads.

– In the past 25 years, the amount of highway funding that comes from sources not related to highway use has doubled.

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