Month: December 2006
Stolen Trek USPS Carbon road bike
Trek road bike United States Postal Service carbon frame, red white and blue, covered with decals and logos as well as my own stickers
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Stolen Mongoose IBOC Zero G ZX
Trek suspension fork, torn saddle (missing most of leather), XT rear derailleur, Acera 7sp shifters, band stickers on frame. Stolen sometime overnight from bike rack in front of The Nest bar on Alberta. If you see this bike PLEASE contact me! It’s my only means of transportation!
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The many bike-friendly faces of 2006
Many people ask me, “How did Portland become such a bike-friendly city?”
I tell them it’s got nothing to do with bike lanes, and everything to do with the amazing people that put so much of their energy, creativity and heart into their belief that bicycles really can change the world.
Here are just some of them:
Updated: Standing next to your bike is not a crime
Local lawyer Mark Ginsberg just shared an interesting decision by the Oregon Court of Appeals today on a case involving a ticket given to a cyclist during a Portland Critical Mass ride back in September 2004.
Joseph Rowe (who represented himself) was standing on the sidewalk next to his bicycle as the monthly Critical Mass ride went by (he had been riding with the group moments earlier). Police officer David Sessum and his partner approached Rowe and, according to the official decision,
Stolen specialized hardrock
upright handlebars, blue, ’bout 10 yrs old, well ridden, stickers: READ A FUCKING BOOK and MY OTHER CAR IS A BROOM
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My impression of the Electra Amsterdam
unless otherwise noted.
When I first saw the Electra Amsterdam in an ad in Bicycling Magazine I was stunned. Not just by the bike’s drop-dead gorgeous looks, but because of what the bike signified to the U.S. bike industry and American cycling in general.
U.S. companies have long offered various city and commuter bikes, but none of them has ever captured the design elegance, romance, and simple functionality of the archetypal Dutch city bikes ridden for decades in the most bike-friendly cities on earth.
Taking bikes on the new tram
Yesterday I got a sneak peek at how bikes mix with the gleaming and futuristic new Portland Aerial Tram. Built by a cooperative effort between PDOT and OHSU, the new tram carries people from a new OHSU health center on the South Waterfront up to OHSU’s Kohler Pavillion.
I was joined by PDOT tram project manager Art Pearce, a rep from ODOT, PDOT bike coordinator Roger Geller, and volunteers from OHSU’s Bike Commuters Group.
What’s up with the blue bike lanes?
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I recently got an email from a reader who was curious about Portland’s blue bike lanes. I did a little research and decided to share my findings with everyone.
The City of Portland — with a grant from ODOT — first experimented with blue bike lanes back in 1997. They selected ten locations that according to an internal report had “a high level of cyclist and motorist interaction and conflict areas where motorists and cyclists had safety concerns.”
Rare glimpse of a car-less Northwest Portland
Photo by Kate Gawf
Portland blogger Kate Gawf recently snapped some photos of a rare occurrence in Northwest Portland; car-less streets. Thanks to the annual “Leaf Day” clean-up, all cars in the usually “parked-up” and densely populated neighborhood vanish for just a few hours.
Here’s more from Kate, followed by another photo: