Detail of Giant Bicycles response to GM ad.-See it below-

It's been two days since we first shared the "Stop pedaling... Start driving." General Motors ad and the story — and the ad itself — is still getting a lot of attention. GM themselves has responded by saying they'll pull the ad out of rotation, several [...]

Nice to see in a magazine where cool is usually defined by racing bikes.

The October issue of Bicycling Magazine includes a big feature article on the cargo bike revolution that's sweeping the country.
Portland, with our flourishing cargo bike scene, figures prominently into the article. There's copy and photos devoted to a local bike move and [...]

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The popular Oregon Public Broadcasting radio show, Think Out Loud, will tackle PBOT's North Williams Traffic Safety Project tomorrow.
Here's how OPB sets up tomorrow's one-hour discussion:
"North Williams Avenue in Portland has become a controversial street in the last few months. Currently, on the one way street, there are two lanes for cars plus [...]

Last night, The Oregonian's commuting reporter and columnist Joseph Rose published an article about Portland Mayor Sam Adams' budget decisions. The article, Portland Mayor Sam Adams boosts funding for bike projects, but now there's less for paving streets, attempts to make the point that Adams' decision to allocate a larger percentage of discretionary revenue to [...]

Go with the "Mo".(Photo © J. Maus)

Just because it's a handmade bike show, doesn't mean there isn't other news to cover here in Austin. On that note, last night I ran into Mia Kohout, co-publisher of Momentum Magazine. The successful bike lifestyle publication based in Vancouver, B.C. celebrates its 50th issue with their March edition [...]

Graphic from WWeek.com.

One of our local alternative weekly magazines, The Willamette Week, made an interesting choice for their weekly "Rogue of the Week" feature. They've given the label to the "haters" of the 50s Bikeway who showed up to last week's first public open house on the project.
Here's a snip from the Willamette Week story:
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Fred Armisen as a Portland bike messenger.

Portlandia is the new, six-part IFC miniseries that's getting a lot of buzz around these parts for its attempts to poke fun at Portland's idiosyncrasies. Back before the holidays, we shared a bit about it over on Page Two because, as you might expect, bicycling figures prominently [...]

"... a far more common sight than a chassis shattered in an explosion is now one destroyed in a nasty crash."— The Economist

The Economist, one of the world's leading news magazines, has an article in this week's issue that really caught my attention (it actually had several, but this one is relevant to BikePortland).
Turns out [...]

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 [...]

The Oregonian's John Canzano is sad that Portland's Triple A baseball team (the Beavers) played their final home game on Sunday; but instead of using his column to reminisce about innings past, he decided to take a few swings at bike lanes.
What do our bikeways have to do with baseball? Nothing. But that [...]

A new Streetfilm (watch it below) taken during the recent Velo-City Global conference in Copenhagen is like a refuge in a storm.
Here in Portland (and across the country), we still struggle with resentment over bike lanes, a local media that's happy to stir it up, people wanting to ban bikes completely because they're simply [...]

A scene from the film.(Photos © J. Maus)

If aliens dropped into the free screening of PBS's documentary Beyond Motor City at the Bagdad Theater Tuesday night, they would have gotten a crash course in America's transportation history and the challenges we face as a nation to recover from our love affair with highways and automobiles. [...]

KGW TV ran a story Monday night titled, "Another rogue bike path in Forest Park." Here's the opening of the story:
"A new illegal bike path in Forest Park has trail users upset, with near misses between docile people on foot and speeding mountain bikers emerging out of nowhere.
And here's the video:
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Allan Classen, founder, editor and publisher of the NW Examiner, has leveled serious criticisms at what he calls "members of the Portland Bicycle Church" in his June issue (PDF here).
Several readers have sent me his monthly Editor's Turn column titled, When the saints go riding on, which refers to bikes as "not merely [...]

Screen grab from KATU TV newscast.-Watch video below-

On their 11 o'clock newscast last night, KATU-TV (ABC in Portland) aired a special 'On Your Side' investigation titled, Bike Path to Nowhere. The segment focused on the buffered bike lanes that were installed on SE Holgate back in August. To give you a sense of [...]

"I secretly hoped Portland "bike culture" was so highly evolved that people were actually using cycling as the basis for spiritual and metaphysical discussion in the same way that the psychedelic scene of the sixties inspired some to explore Buddhism and alternative philosophy."

The infamous author and blogger Eben "Bike Snob" Weiss has a feature article [...]

Headline on Huffington Post isn't quite true.

An Associated Press story about US DOT Secretary Ray LaHood that's making rounds on the Internet today (it's running on Huffington Post and BusinessWeek.com just to name a few) says there's "A backlash is brewing over his new bicycling policy."
There might be a backlash from some who still don't [...]

Michael Andersen gives us a sneak peek at Portland Afoot.(Photo © J. Maus)

Former reporter with The Columbian newspaper, Michael Andersen, is set to launch Portland Afoot, a publication that will cover "low-car life" in Portland. Billed as "PDX's 10-minute newsmagazine on buses, bikes and low-car life," Andersen hopes his new endeavor will capture [...]

"There's a lot going on in Portland, but there are other cities having more astonishing success at this point." -- Loren Mooney, Editor-in-Chief Bicycling Magazine

Bicycling Magazine's annual list of America's top bicycle cities puts Portland in unfamiliar territory: second place. Since 1995, Portland has consistently been ranked as the #1 biking city, earning the [...]

Eben "Bike Snob" Weiss in the Wall Street Journal.

It was big news on the bikey interwebs yesterday when the man behind the most popular bike blog in the world BikesnobNYC revealed his identity. Eben Weiss is the Bike Snob and his coming out day was a pretty big deal.
In addition to his [...]