August 2006 Archives

Stolen: Rocky Mountain MTB

Buffered Bike Lane with a bike symbol and arrow pointing forward

My bike was stolen Saturday night from the waterfront while I was
attending the beer tasting. The bike is a late 90’s model Rocky Mountain,
white frame, canadian flag sticker. there is a small pouch attached to the
seat that reads “Ruby Tuesday”. The thieves left the front wheel. I am
amazed at how they removed the bike as the frame was locked. How do they do
this? Any help would be great. Thanks.

Brad Glenn
contact info if needed –
glenn_brad@hotmail.com or 865-963-6605

Cops carry out enforcement mission on morning commuters

I have had several phone calls and emails about the enforcement mission being carried out by the Portland Police Bureau on the east end of the Hawthorne Bridge this morning.

I have heard reports of up four cyclists being pulled over at one time.

This was a planned enforcement mission and I remember an email about it from Evan Manvel of the BTA on the Shift list about a week ago.

I called Lieutenant Kruger this morning and he confirmed that they were, “focusing on the downtown core area and citing all modes (cars, bikes, peds, etc…).”

[What a healthy street
looks like.]

“What about ambulances?” a friend who is visiting from New York asked recently as I was excitedly telling her about our bike community and recent car-free activism. I had no idea what she was referring to.

“And what about handicapped people?” she added by way of explanation. I was still confused. “Well, if you ban cars, not everybody can ride bicycles all the time!” she finally said.

Aha!

This is a pretty common narrative, actually, in some form or other, part of the cultural divide between the Portland bubble and what sometimes seems like the rest of the world.

My blue and black Trek Hybrid bike was stolen from a bike rack on
Saturday July 28th around 1:00 PM. It was locked with a cable chain to
my wife’s bike on NW 1st between Couch and Davis. The cable was cut.
It has a new seat and a Bell pannier rack.

Tom N
503-464-2581

Stolen: Fisher Tiburon

My bike was stolen from Lloyd Center last Sunday afternoon, July 31st. I had locked it to a ramp railing outside of the west (parking garage) entrance of Barnes & Noble close to the entrance/exit of the parking garage. I mistakenly thought that it would be safer there in plain sight with many people going by. Of course, leaving it there for two hours didn’t help matters. The thieves either had a key for or cut the cable lock. Anyway, here is the description:

2004 Gary Fisher Tiburon (hybrid)

Silver with white accent on a 22-1/2 inch frame (XL)
Silver/black Blackburn hand pump mounted on the vertical frame post near crankshaft
Bontrager 700x35c tires (on Matrix 750 rims)
Round rear view mirror on left handlebar end
Blue masking tape on top of right swing-arm
Bell bike seat
SN C24GQ552

Thanks for posting this ahead of time. I just saw a spot in Channel 12 news last night telling of a guy who got his stolen bike back through the aid of your site.

Mike C
2betterthan1 [at]
netscape [dot] com

Get smart on the BAC bike ride

[City bike coordinator
Roger Geller.]

You’re not officially a bike geek until you’ve spent an evening with the 13 super-volunteers that make up the Portland Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC).

The BAC advises City Council and various city bureaus on bike-related matters and holds monthly public meetings “to review projects of interest to cyclists and discuss bike issues.”

Basically, they’re a smart bunch and they watch our backs in City Hall.

The meetings can be pretty wonky and boring sometimes (that’s why they’ve got free coffee), but they can also be full of high drama, verbal fisticuffs, and other interesting twists and turns. For instance…

My recent story on a traffic court decision that upheld a ticket to a local messenger for not having a “separate braking device” on her fixed-gear bicycle has quickly spread around the web and seems to have struck a nerve in cyclists everywhere.

This morning the article was linked to from BoingBoing.net, one of the most well-known blogs in the world with an estimated 1.75 million visitors per day.

Here’s the latest from a local messenger, the lawyer on the case, and a police Lieutenant.

[The following ode was written by new contributor Elicia Cardenas and was originally published to the Shift email list almost one year ago. She wrote it in response to someone who questioned why some cyclists act like heroes or “holier than thou” once astride their bicycles. In the future Elicia will be writing about bike infrastructure, advocacy, and other geeky stuff. Welcome Elicia!]

I am heroic because I ride my bike. All of us are.

I am a hero because every day someone almost kills me while I am trying to get to work.

I am a hero because a car swerved into the bike lane and almost hit me, and I kept riding.

Stolen: Rocky Mountain MTB

Cops carry out enforcement mission on morning commuters

Going beyond Portland’s bike bubble

Stolen: Trek hybrid

Stolen: Fisher Tiburon

Get smart on the BAC bike ride

Reactions to fixed-gear ruling

Are cyclists heroes?

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