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Event: BikeYoga (Mon,Wed,Fri)

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Event Name: BikeYoga (Yoga for Cyclists)
Event Start Date: 1 November 2010
Start Time: Mondays 7:00 PM, Weds & Fri 7:00AM
Web Site: http://www.bikeyoga.com
Event Description: Join yoga and bike guru Uma Kleppinger for a class designed to tune up the cyclist body. New BikeYoga classes will be held at Upper Echelon Fitness Monday evenings 7-8pm, [...]

New crossing at MLK and Going: How does it work for you?

Monday, November 1st, 2010

People cross N. Going Street at MLK.(Photo © J. Maus)

A local TV news outlet is questioning the safety benefit of a crossing treatment recently completed as part of the N. Going bike boulevard project.
I got an email from Scott Burton at KGW TV (Portland's NBC affiliate) on Friday that they were doing a story about [...]

Bid on bike items in Street Roots fundraiser auction

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Street Roots is a great local non-profit newspaper that employs people that live on the street (or are otherwise without a home of their own). They have a new column by the Portland Police Bureau's bicycle community liaison Robert Pickett and they've covered many biking issues in the past. Editor Israel Bayer got [...]

Studded tire season is here: Where's the effort to ban them?

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Just say no.(Graphic: BanStuddedTires.com)

Today is November 1st, the first official day of studded tire season in Oregon. Back in March we shared why people who ride bikes should care that studded tires do $50-60 million in road damage each year and we also shared that one man was committed to putting a stop to [...]

Bike touring activism on the Oregon Coast

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Portlander Matt Picio (founder of Cycle Wild, an awesome non-profit that leads carfree camping trips) sent along a photo this morning of a recent bike tour he led out on the Oregon Coast. The photo captures a great example of bike activism in action...

Postcard activism.(Photo: Matt Picio/Flickr)

The Monday Roundup

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Bikla Bike Share in Guadalajara, Mexico.(Photo: Ryan Hashagen/AROW)

- Bike sharing is coming to the Bay Area, and it's coming up fast, with a pilot project in the works for SF and several nearby cities.
- In Guadalajara, Mexico, the government didn't jump at a bike sharing system, so one was implemented with creative, grassroots funding sources.

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