Sue Butler(Photo: SueButlerRides.com)

Later this month, 39-year old Portland bike racer Sue Butler is headed to St. Wendel Germany where she'll represent Team USA at the UCI Cyclocross World Championships. To help get her there, a fundraiser has been planned for Tuesday night at Hopworks Urban Brewery (2944 SE Powell).
Hopworks will donate $1 of every pint [...]

It's been a pretty crazy day (actually crazy last couple of days)... So I thought you'd enjoy taking a break and seeing some really fun bike art created by Lents neighborhood resident Tom Labonty. Check out his "Rat-Fiets" drawing below...

Drawing by Tom Labonty. See it on Flickr.

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The Circulus is moving to Portland.(Photos: Emily Lace - More images here)

The Circulus, a 132-foot circumference wooden velodrome made as a senior thesis project by an art student in California, will get a second life thanks to a Portland-based bike company.
Artist Samuel Starr is a graduate of Pomona College who created the unique track [...]

Stills from just some of the many films that will screen during the Bicycle Film Festival.

Get ready to be inspired and entertained by a wide variety of bicycle-themed films. The Bicycle Film Festival and Filmed By Bike are both gearing up for 2011.
The Bicycle Film Festival has just announced dates and screenings for their 2011 [...]

[This article was written by Kelly Dodd. It first appeared in the June 2010 issue of Jan Heine's Bicycle Quarterly magazine and is being published here with the author's permission. We are extremely grateful for the opportunity to share this historical account of a Portland bicycling pioneer, devoted advocate, and legendary bike racer.]
Frans [...]

Mike Cobb.

Portlander Mike Cobb is no stranger to impressive bicycle feats. Whether it's winning a trackstand competition with a broken arm while being pelted with water balloons, or coming home with three medals from the 2009 Cycle Messenger World Championships in Tokyo, or by simply pedaling a 700-pound capacity cargo trike at his former day [...]

Artist: Jason Hardy(See more below)

According to artist and founder of The Canary Project Edward Morris, the Green Patriot Posters project was launched to "create stronger, more broadly appealing imagery for the sustainability movement". When he and his partners set up a website and asked designers to submit posters, they were intrigued by how many [...]

Geoff Franklin in his shop.(Photos © Russ Roca)

Walnut's new bike luggage, featuring handcrafted leather and cedar panels.

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[Note: We announced vendor sign-ups for BikeCraft just last week, and we've already got over 30 amazing artisans ready to share their creations with you. This is the first in our Meet Your Maker series of BikeCraft vendors that will give you a closer look at the makers behind the products. The audio [...]

When it comes to being well-lit, Mark Allyn does it with style.(Photos © J. Maus)

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Reader Reuben Deumling made this wooden beauty for his little beauty.(Photos: R. Deumling)

Reader and Portland resident Reuben Deumling recently shared a project with me that I wanted to pass along.
For the growing number of you who find yourselves needing/wanting to carry a little passenger along, he's come up with a very nice wooden [...]

"1 in 55 Americans will die in a car crash*. My job is to say it out loud. Why do we allow these deaths to occur?" — Peter Jacobsen, P.E., public health consultant and researcher

As I mentioned yesterday, public health consultant and research Peter Jacobsen, P.E., will be in Portland Friday to spread the [...]

Traffic on N. Williams speeds past a bike-themed mural.(Photos © J. Maus)

You might have noticed a bright new bike-inspired piece of public art on N. Williams Avenue just north of Fremont. The large panel is part of a multi-piece wall of murals that have gone up around the Boise-Eliot Outdoor Market.
The artist, former [...]

Ron Ratley uses a company-supplied bike to get between job sites on the Vigor Industrial shipyard on Swan Island. - Gallery / Slideshow below - (Photos © J. Maus)

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John "Coop" Cooper.

This Sunday, a warehouse under the east side of the Fremont Bridge that sits partially over the Willamette River will be buzzing with bikes, bike parts, and the people who love them. The PDX Cycle Swap is a new event that its organizers plan to hold every second Sunday of the month. [...]

Mr. Sadowsky is settling in.(Photo © J. Maus)

The BTA's new executive director Rob Sadowsky has been at the helm for about two months now. Between getting to know a new city and state (he moved here with his family from Chicago), setting the BTA's course for the future, and trying to build an effective [...]

Travis Wittwer.(Photo © J. Maus)

North Portland resident Travis Wittwer loves bike racks and bike parking. That's nothing extraordinary on the surface; I mean, I like bike racks too, and I'm sure many of you appreciate them and even get excited/happy at the sight of an on-street bike corral or a whimsical art rack. [...]

Someone has stenciled several video game symbols in the N. Williams bike lane.- See the rest of them below - (Photos © J. Maus)

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Self-described web developer, musician and bike geek T. J. VanSlyke, a Portland resident, has a track on his new album about the Idaho Stop law. VanSlyke describes his music as "white-boy electro rap" and the "Idaho Stop" track appears on his album "I Sold Out But No One Bought Me."
Before sharing some of the [...]

Mr. Twain in 1871.(Photo: Wikipedia)

Just came across (via @cascadebicycle on Twitter) an amazing bit of Portland bike history via the Seattle-based Crosscut blog.
115 years ago today, America's beloved nomad, author and commentator Mark Twain visited our little logging town and had some pretty big ideas about biking. Crosscut's Knute Berger was researching [...]