I’ve been sent a link to this video of an automated bike-parking elevator in Japan by at least 10 people, so I figured I should share it…

More info from the Japan Probe blog:
“Customers who come to the station by bicycle need only place their bike on a small platform and hit a few buttons, and […]

An on-street bike corral, like this one off N. Mississippi Ave, might be coming to downtown St. Johns.(Photo © J. Maus)

St. Johns area residents are hopeful that soon they’ll have an on-street bike corral installed downtown.
Longtime neighborhood activist Joe Adamski says he has met with the City of Portland’s Office of Transportation and members of […]

New bike parking at City Hall.(Photos © J. Maus)

The City of Portland has added 12 parking spaces in front of City Hall to accommodate visitors and employees who arrive by bike.
Two sets of three staple racks each have been installed on both sides of the building’s plaza at the SW 4th Avenue entrance.
Last fall, the […]

At yesterday’s press event to “celebrate” Portland’s new bike boxes, Jeff Castro gave his new BikeRacker product its first real test.

The BikeRacker in action.(Photos © J. Maus)

Castro is looking to tap into Portland’s fertile market for bike parking. It’s a well-known fact that even though PDOT is trying hard to keep up, there is […]

Cyclists in front of the Memorial Coliseum during a ride in 2006.(Photo © J. Maus)

Volunteers working on Barack Obama’s event in Portland tomorrow at the Memorial Coliseum are scrambling to make sure they’ve got enough bike parking capacity.
They’re well aware of what happened back in February when cyclists didn’t find enough parking at an event […]

Start-up company BikeRacker will look to supply its temporary bike racks to local events and businesses.

BikeRacker founder Jeff Castro.(Photo: Jeff Castro)

Nearly every Portlander who goes by bike has experienced it: You get to an event (sometimes even a bike-related event) and there are not enough places to park. Or, the spaces that […]

This story is part of my ongoing coverage of the 2008 National Bike Summit. See the rest of my coverage here.

The EPA practices what they preach.(Photos © J. Maus)

One of the highlights of my first day at the 2008 National Bike Summit had nothing to do with meetings, networking, or keynote speakers — it […]

No metal was safe from bikes at the NAHBS today.(Photo © J. Maus)

The Oregon Convention Center was overwhelmed with guests arriving by bike for the North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) today.
As crowds hit their peak around mid-day today, hundreds of bikes were locked to every piece of metal in sight. Convention Center staff […]

This just in…
NAHBS is pleased to announce free indoor bike parking on Friday 8th, Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th February.

Access to the bike parking is from Lloyd St, on the south side of the Oregon Convention Center. Look for the Bike Parking signs.
Arranged by Portland business consultant Bob Mandelson, the parking area has capacity for […]

The Bikestation in downtown Long Beach.(Photos © Jonathan Maus)

In downtown Long Beach, those who ‘go by bike’ don’t exactly get the red-carpet treatment.
The streets are wide, the cars go fast, and there are few bike-friendly routes. The safest place to ride is on the sidewalk, but that’s illegal.
And then, in […]

An attentive tipster has sent me some photos of new bike parking at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (which is directly accessible from the Eastbank Esplanade).
The photos were taken on Sunday, October 11th by Matt Picio:

Great to see these new racks, the only thing that would make them better is if they were […]

(Photos © Jonathan Maus)

Thanks to a partnership between Kryptonite and the City of Portland, bike parking just got a lot easier for students at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Last Friday, work crews installed 9 staple racks (that’s room for about 18 bikes), in what was formerly one car parking spot. The new […]

Portland’s latest on-street bike parking racks await new home.(Photo © Jonathan Maus)

While riding home last night up the Mississippi/Albina Hill, I noticed some familiar looking staple racks in PDOT’s equipment storage yard. It was two, three-staple rack assemblies welded together; the same configuration used in the on-street bike parking corrals that are popping up […]

Since my post two weeks ago about bike parking at Lewis & Clark College I’ve had the chance to exchange a few emails with the school’s Director of Transportation and Parking, Mark Morgan.
Morgan shared the following new information about the bike parking situation and other bikey tidbits:
“The most recent inventory of bicycle parking capacity on […]

City Hall bike racks; will they stay or go?(Photo: Jonathan Maus)

Earlier this month, the BTA’s Karl Rohde reported that a bunch of new bike racks had been installed in front of City Hall’s main entrance (on SW Fourth Ave.).
The racks were installed as a temporary measure to handle the increased demand during the Bike […]

On-street “bike corral” in north Portland.(Photo: Jonathan Maus)

It looks like Portland’s on-street bike parking program has inspired the city of Victoria, British Columbia.
An article published Sunday in the Victoria Times Colonist reports that, due to a demand for on-street, high-quality bike parking that outstrips supply, Victoria has modeled a bike parking program after Portland.
The article […]

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BTA bike parking at the Blues Festival in 2005.(File photo)

If you tried to park your bike at the recent Waterfront Blues Festival or the Bite of Oregon (after Bridge Pedal), you might have expected the BTA to be there, providing free valet bike parking like they have in years past.
But many people have […]