When it comes to bike repair and maintenance, I’m one of those people who knows just enough to mess things up. So last night, one other student and I joined Tori Bortman in the basement of her home in north Portland to learn the secrets of bike repair from a pro.
By day, Tori works at the downtown Bike Gallery. But by night, she becomes CEO of Gracie’s Wrench, the bike maintenance school she started just over a year ago.
Smallish black mountain bike with Shimano components, proudly says that it’s made in Taiwan in several places
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A story I posted yesterday led to interesting comments about bicycle boulevards. We also looked at bike crash data with City traffic safety guru Greg Raisman.
Bikes to Rwanda, a local effort to supply Rwandan coffee farmers with reliable cargo bikes, has announced “Africa in a Cup,” a benefit bike ride happening Saturday (4/21). Check out the flyer:
“A trail corridor must be provided to address transportation impacts.”
-Bureau of Development Services.
The Portland Bureau of Development Services has issued another denial for SK Northwest. It’s been one year since I first broke the story of the company’s plans to develop a facility along the Willamette River, just south of OMSI.
State-by-state numbers of the Outdoor Industry of America’s landmark Active Recreation Economy Report have just been released and they show that bicycling plays a significant role in Oregon’s economy.
Here are the key, bicycle-related numbers for Oregon (all are annual):
The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) stopped in Portland recently to meet with advocates and policy-makers to rally support for an ambitious congressional funding campaign.
As I reported a few weeks ago, the RTC hopes to secure $2 billion in the next Federal Transportation Bill to fund 40 communities to the tune of $50 million dollars each to “improve bicycle and pedestrian mode shift”.
The program would be an expansion of the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program which gave 4 cities $25 million each in the last transportation bill.
The BTA’s “Vulnerable Roadway Users” bill (HB 3314 )will get a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee on Monday (4/23).
I spoke with Scott Bricker about the bill this morning before he left for another day working the halls of Salem.
According to Bricker, the bill targets vehicle operators that currently only have to pay a nominal fine if they hit and/or kill a vulnerable roadway user (which includes bicyclists, peds, and others) while driving carelessly,
As part of their ongoing Transportation Seminar Series, PSU’s Center for Transportation Studies will host a seminar titled, Bicycling in Davis, California; A Critical Look at Policy and Behavior in the First Platinum Bicycle City in the U.S.
The presentation will be given by Susan Handy, an environmental planning professor at UC Davis.
Davis achieved Platinum status from the League of American Bicyclists back in September of 2005, but the city is experiencing some growing pains.
extremely good condition- hardly ever taken off pavement; hardly ever on pavement! stolen at less than one year old
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If you pay any attention to business or outdoor industry news, you’ve probably heard about Nau (if you haven’t, check out this feature on them in Outside Magazine).
The Portland-based company has high hopes with their new line of sustainable clothing (some of which is made from recycled soda bottles and corn) and their new way of doing business.
Stolen from inside my living room is my 50cm black Bareknuckle track bike. it has a chrome-plated front fork. Silver High Flange Phil Woods laced to black velocity aero rims. Campy C-Record stamped crank. Thomson stem and seatpost. mks track pedals with black suede doublestraps. black easton riser bar.
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