Lawyer Ray Thomas during a press conference earlier this month.(Photo © J. Maus)

Portland lawyer Ray Thomas has released a do-it-yourself toolkit of resources and case studies meant to help anyone who seeks to bring violators of traffic laws to justice.
The process, known as a “citizen initiation of violation proceedings,” is based on an Oregon law […]

This reminder brought to you by your friends at the Lloyd TMA.(Photo © J. Maus)

Since summer is the peak of bike theft season, and many newbies are taking to the streets (with shiny new steeds) for the first time, I thought it was time for a bike theft prevention refresher course.
The other day, while locking […]

The Transportation Options division of PDOT has just printed up 30,000 new city bike maps (not to be confused with Metro’s “Bike There” map). I got a look at them first-hand today thanks to long-time Options staffer and mapping guru Jeff Smith.
Jeff pointed out that for the first time ever, they’ve devoted a full […]

Momentum is based in Portland’s sister cycling city, Vancouver BC.

Vancouver, BC-based Momentum Magazine, has expanded their distribution in Portland.
Editor Amy Walker says she wants to get the magazine in front of more Portland faces and to do it, they’ve contracted with the same distribution service used by the Portland Mercury.
In addition […]

A flyer for the PDX Bike Militia

A new group known as the PDX Bike Militia has launched a service that will look to improve safety for bike riders in the city by pairing them up with “bike escorts”.
In a message to the Shift email list announcing the new service, they described several examples of when […]

Thanks to the efforts of Woodstock resident and reader Brad R., my list of Portland bike shops has been made into a handy Google Map.
Brad plotted out all the shops on my links page, and filled in the description with the little blurb I’d written for each of them.
I’ve embedded the map below (it might […]

A couple crosses at NW 9th and Lovejoy.(Photo © Jonathan Maus)

Local lawyer Ray Thomas, a tireless defender of bicyclist’s rights who most recently spoke at the We are All Traffic press conference, has released a new book to help educate that other group of vulnerable roadway users: pedestrians.
Oregon Pedestrian Rights is billed as a “legal […]

A few of the folks behind Bike Farm. L to R: Jennifer Collins, community outreach coordinator; Becca Dillon, co-founder; Ariel Raymon, co-founder.(Photos © Jonathan Maus)

Ariel Raymon loved learning how to work on her bike as a member of The Bike Church, a community bike shop based in Santa Cruz, California. She learned how to […]

John Pucher(Photo: Rutgers)

Noted bicycle and pedestrian advocate, speaker, and Rutgers University Professor John Pucher has just written a new paper (to be published by the Oxford University journal Transport Reviews in July 2008) that might be the road map Portland takes to becoming a truly world-class bike city.
The paper, titled Making Cycling Irresistible: Lessons from […]

This weekend (qualifying events on Saturday, main event on Sunday), Portland (actually Estacada) will host the first ever Singlespeed Cyclocross World Championships.
Organizer Dani Dance has some advice for would-be competitors and spectators. Below, she shares a few easy steps to convert your bike to a single speed, issues a call to all the […]

Busy bike racks at Trillium School in North Portland.(Photos © Jonathan Maus)

Two recent experiences have left me thinking that more and more Portland families are ditching the family car and replacing it with the family bike.
Yesterday morning, when I pulled up to the bike parking area in front of my daughter’s preschool, it […]

(Note: The Oregonian has changed the page headline to “Bikes and cars”)

Over the weekend, the Oregonian posted an expanded, multimedia look at the topic of bike safety in Portland.
The page (which is unfortunately titled “Bike versus car” after some back and forth emails with their online editor Mark Friesen, the Oregonian has changed the headline […]

A bicyclist on the Hawthorne Bridge captured on Google Maps’ Street View function. (Screenshot)

Today, Google announced that their Google Maps’ Street View feature has been expanded to include Portland.
We now join 15 other cities who are lucky enough to have our every move watched by Google’s cameras.
A reader (thanks Craig!) sent me a […]

Insert NPGreenway Trail here.(Photo: Jonathan Maus)

The folks behind the North Portland Greenway Trail are some of the hardest working advocates I’ve ever come across.
They are constantly doing whatever they can to share their vision for a new riverfront trail that would connect the Eastbank Esplanade (at the Steel Bridge) to Cathedral Park in […]

(Photo: Jonathan Maus)

We all know riding a bike to work is great, but bikepooling makes it even better. This is true especially for newbies who might need the buffer of a veteran (or just a friend) in order to start biking to work every day.
If you’ve never bikepooled, September is the perfect time […]

Screen shot of Velog.org.

Portland cyclist and web development guru Brian Ellin has created Velog, a social networking site for cyclists.
Ellin says the site is, “like a blend of Twitter.com and the Bike Commute Challenge website.”
The site is “city centric” to encourage users to find other cyclists with similar riding interests nearby. Once […]

The City of Vancouver is set to unveil a new bike map (cover graphic below) at Bridge Pedal this Sunday. The map is the first to cover local bike routes for both cities since the “Cyclists Road Map of Portland District” was published way back in 1896.

(Image courtesy City of Vancouver)

According to City of […]