Author profile: Elly Blue
Elly Blue has been writing about bicycling and carfree issues for BikePortland.org since 2006. In fall of 2008 she joined Team BikePortland full-time, bringing her experience as a community activist with local bike group Shift, and planning events such as the Towards Carfree Cities conference.
Elly will continue to write editorials as well as news stories and product reviews of utility cycling essentials. Her other myriad tasks include managing advertising accounts; working with new writers; planning events such as the annual BikeCraft holiday bazaar; expanding the site with new features like the BikePortland Bookstore; and generally developing the business and figuring out new ways to bring the community information and inspiration about bikes.
If you would like to advertise on BikePortland, send something for review, submit a guest article or editorial, float a crazy idea, or just say hi, contact her at (503) 810-9443 or elly[at]bikeportland.org.
Here are the other 237 articles by Elly Blue:
- June 2009 site stats and top stories (July 1, 2009)
Here are BikePortland’s traffic stats from the month of June. Two topics dominated the public’s interest this month (and both brought in considerable traffic from outside our usual readership): The World Naked Bike Ride and last Thursday’s Michael Jackson memorial karaoke dance party on wheels.
Visits - 200,902
Average visit length - 02:55
Pages viewed - 493,795
Front page [...] - Reader photo: How not to park your bike (July 1, 2009)
An example of rude bike parking on Vancouver Ave. (Photo by Mary)
- Ride Report: Natural Disasters and Geologic History of Cascadia (June 29, 2009)
Professor Badass expounds onlocal geologic mysteries.(Photo by J.R.)
I ditched work on Thursday to familiarize myself with the Land of Port a bit better by joining up with fifteen other people on bikes and Dr. #1 Badass (planetary geology professor) at the Washington Park Zoo MAX stop.
The four and a half hour tour began by reviewing [...] - Report: Oregon Sesquicentennial Ride (June 29, 2009)
Esther and Phil looove Seski.(Photo © J. Maus)
[Thanks to Carye Bye for this report (via the Shift list) on the Oregon Sesquicentennial Ride that she organized in honor of our state's 150th birthday. You can see her photos of the ride here, and check out BikePortland's photos from the start of the party here.]
Oregon is [...]
- The Monday Roundup (June 29, 2009)
Climate legislation; more TriMet service cuts; SF gets new bike lanes again; removing highways; bikes on bridges; time travel on 5th Ave; carfree Fridays; road rage; bikewashing.
There has been a lot of good news in transportation in the past week. Here are some of the highlights:
- The US House has passed a new, big climate [...] - Report (and photos): Pizza Ride / Bluesapalooza (June 26, 2009)
The Epic Pizza Ride this year was in its fourth, and most extreme, incarnation, including over 100 dedicated pizza eaters, a vegan contingent, a trip up Highway 30 to St Johns, and a serendipitous convergence with the Bluesapalooza ride and its mobile sound system, blues dancers, and a roller-skating corker.
Nostalgic brainchild of the of New [...] - Report and photos: Yoga invasion sweeps Scandinavians in short shorts (June 26, 2009)
If there’s anything better than going on a bike ride on a gorgeous sunny day, it’s going on bike rides between parks to do yoga on a gorgeous sunny day with 60 other happy pracititioners. And if there’s anything better than that, it’s a convergence with a hundred proud Scandiniavians and their allies riding around [...]
- Jousting, donuts, kid fair, beer: Something for everyone at this year’s Multnomah County Bike Fair (June 26, 2009)
On the midway at MCBF in 2008. (Photo © J. Maus)
“It’s the bike-gasm!”
That’s how the Multnomah County Bike Fair was explained to me on my first time around back in 2005.
The description holds true. After 17 exhausting, exuberant days of Pedalpalooza, fatigue is setting in (and there were even rumors on Twitter [...] - Report (with slideshow): Bike Kiss-In (June 25, 2009)
The Bike Kiss-In is becoming a time-honored tradition here in Portland. Every Pedalpalooza, couples gather in a high-traffic spot to show their passion for bikes and each other, holding up signs with slogans like “Liplock, not gridlock” and “If you were biking, you’d be making out by now.”
Check out our photos from tonight’s event [...] - Creativity reigns at Summer BikeCraft: Coming this Saturday! (June 25, 2009)
Shaun Deller’s hats are back!
Pedalpalooza culminates this Saturday (6/27) with the infamous, one-of-a-kind Multnomah County Bike Fair. I know, you’re sad because that means eleven long months of waiting for next year will commence — but, you can keep the spirit alive, and remind yourself and the world of your love for bike fun. Come [...]
- Pedalpalooza Daily: Thursday, June 25 (June 24, 2009)
[Welcome to your daily Pedalpalooza rundown. We'll post each day's events and rides here, so you can plan, email them to your friends, etc...
See all our Pedalpalooza coverage here and follow the latest updates on Twitter.
Click ride title for full details... have fun out there!] - Report: Sexy Señoritas on Sexy Schwinns (June 24, 2009)
[Thanks to Schwinn ride leader Esther Harlow for putting together a great ride full of badass, non-stereotypical femininity, and for providing this ride report. Check out Esther's photos here, and Jonathan's photo portraits of Schwinns and their riders the beginning of the ride (as well as the Trekstosterone ride that began in the same spot)]
Which [...] - Report: Jonathan Richman Ride (June 24, 2009)
[This report on the Jonathan Richman Ride is by Carye Bye via Flickr. Be sure to check out her photos of the costumes and locations along the way!]
Carl (aka Roadrunner) and the Jonathan Richman crew set forth (20 people?) to experience Jonathan’s odes to love, life, and the Velvet Underground.
I think I was asked [...] - Ride Report: Pie Champ Ride (June 24, 2009)
[Last night's Pie Champ ride report came from Susan Otcenas via the Shift List. For more reports and other Pedalpalooza coverage, see our Pedalpalooza page.]
I think it’s telling that so far, the only Pedalpalooza rides I’ve found time for are food related…..
Jeff & I hopped on our tandem at 8pm for the 15-ish mile ride [...] - Pedalpalooza Daily: Wednesday, June 24 (June 23, 2009)
[Welcome to your daily Pedalpalooza rundown. We'll post each day's events and rides here, so you can plan, email them to your friends, etc...
See all our Pedalpalooza coverage here and follow the latest updates on Twitter.
Click ride title for full details... have fun out there!] - Pedalpalooza Daily: Tuesday, June 23 (June 22, 2009)
[Welcome to your daily Pedalpalooza rundown. We'll post each day's events and rides here, so you can plan, email them to your friends, etc...
See all our Pedalpalooza coverage here and follow the latest updates on Twitter.
Click ride title for full details... have fun out there!] - The Monday Roundup (June 22, 2009)
Portland leads the way, smart growth pays, road rage crackdowns, PR problems and solutions, Critical Mass for cars, Thomas Edison and fixies, the demise of the rest stop, trikes in Scappoose.
- Portland is held up on the Huffington Post as a national example for our climate initiatives — particularly our bicycle-friendliness.
- Portland’s city council has [...] - Pedalpalooza Daily: Monday, June 22 (June 21, 2009)
[Welcome to your daily Pedalpalooza rundown. We'll post each day's events and rides here, so you can plan, email them to your friends, etc...
See all our Pedalpalooza coverage here and follow the latest updates on Twitter.
Click ride title for full details... have fun out there!] - Report: Take the Lane Ride (June 20, 2009)
[Report by ride leader Emily Wilson via the Shift list. This is part of our ongoing Pedalpalooza coverage. See all our reports and photos here.]
Tuesday evening, June 16th
Around 10 riders met at the Whole Foods at 28th and E. Burnside for the Take the Lane Ride.
We got take the lane stickers, copies of the law [...] - Report: Umpteenth Annual Taco Ride (June 20, 2009)
[Report by ride leader Ben Salzberg via the Shift list. This is part of our ongoing Pedalpalooza coverage. See all our reports and photos here.]
The taco ride is a victim of its own success. A lot of people really love to ride their bikes and eat tacos, it seems. Over 100 this time!
We had 4 [...] - Pedalpalooza Daily: Saturday, June 20 (June 19, 2009)
[Welcome to your daily Pedalpalooza rundown. We'll post each day's events and rides here, so you can plan, email them to your friends, etc...
See all our Pedalpalooza coverage here and follow the latest updates on Twitter.
Click ride title for full details... have fun out there!] - Pedalpalooza Daily: Friday, June 19 (June 18, 2009)
[Welcome to your daily Pedalpalooza rundown. We'll post each day's events and rides here, so you can plan, email them to your friends, etc...
See all our Pedalpalooza coverage here and follow the latest updates on Twitter.
Click ride title for full details... have fun out there!] - Report: Bike Camping 101 (June 18, 2009)
[Thanks to event organizer Matt Picio of Cycle Wild for providing this recap via the Shift list.]
Last night, Tomas Quinones and I held Cycle Wild’s 5th Bike Camping 101 class. We held this class at last year’s Pedalpalooza in Colonel Summers Park, and we returned there for an encore presentation. In
2008, we had [...] - Report/photos: Public Art Ride (June 18, 2009)
About 25 riders converged downtown over the lunch hour yesterday for a tour around some public works of art, led by Ben Foote of ON Gallery.
Many of the pieces were funded by the the state’s 1% for Art rule, which requires publicly funded projects to spend 1% of their budget on public art. This includes [...] - Pedalpalooza Daily: Thursday, June 18 (June 17, 2009)
[Welcome to your daily Pedalpalooza rundown. We'll post each day's events and rides here, so you can plan, email them to your friends, etc...
See all our Pedalpalooza coverage here and follow the latest updates on Twitter.
Click ride title for full details... have fun out there!] - [Updated with video!] Report: Dandy Warhols Ride (June 17, 2009)
[Thanks to ride leader Jill for reporting on Monday's Dandy Warhols Ride, via the Shift list. See bottom of post for a video of the ride!]
It took an entire day to recover from the marathon Dandy Warhols ride. What was planned to be about a 2-hour event instead turned into about a 7-hour odyssey when [...] - Report: Pun-ishment Ride meets Unmet Expectations (June 17, 2009)
[This report provided by Pun-ishment ride leader Matt Picio, via the Shift list.]
About 40 people showed up last evening for the Pun-ishment ride, expecting games, prizes, and bad puns. They got the last one, and a promise of a ride to a secret mystery destination, but the ride ran
late and the mystery destination was [...] - More eating than pedaling at the Remedial Ride (June 17, 2009)
[Thanks to BikePortland intern J.R. (Jonathan Reed) for reporting on last night's Remedial Ride. Apparently 80 people showed up -- twice last year's turn out!]
Frites from Potato Champion(Photo: Jonathan Reed)
Approximately 45 people on bikes gathered at Colonel Summers park at 7:00pm Tuesday for a Pedalpalooza event called the “Remedial Ride 2.” Ride organizer Ben’s description [...]
- Report and slideshow: Bikendo! (June 17, 2009)
Last night in Overlook Park, about 16 men and women, wearing everything from short skirts to spandex, learned the rudiments of a newly emerging martial art form: Bikendo.
Our teacher was Nature Boy, a longtime practitioner of karate and tai chi. He had the idea to develop a specific self defense technique for people who [...] - Pedalpalooza Daily: Wednesday, June 17 (June 16, 2009)
[Welcome to your daily Pedalpalooza rundown. We'll post each day's events and rides here, so you can plan, email them to your friends, etc...
See all our Pedalpalooza coverage here and follow the latest updates on Twitter.
Click ride title for full details... have fun out there!]9:45am – 5:45am: Midweek Ride to the Gorge
Take the [...]
