Novara Big Buzz, light green, 20″, mirror, generally good shape, couple minor scratches
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Month: November 2007
BikeCraft III
It’s BikeCraft! The annual holiday gift bazaar for bike lovers. I’ll have 20+ vendors featuring local, handmade, bike-themed items.
Check out the official event website for more info and links to photos and vendor profiles from years past.
This year’s venue is
Lucky Lab Beer Hall in NW Portland
19th and Quimby
Please call me (Jonathan Maus) with any questions (503) 706-8804.
Stolen Bianchi Milano
red seat, mismatched wheels (front all black, back black w/red pinstripe).
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Tonight at 11:00: “Bikes vs. Cars”
Last week, the Oregonian published a multimedia web page full of bike-related information, a Google Map, stats and videos. When I pointed out the page, I shared my disappointment at the choice of, “Bike versus car” as the title of the story.
I find this term — which seems to be the phrase-of-choice whenever a bike safety story is in the news — to be unnecessarily divisive and not always descriptive of the real issues at hand.
After several commenters pointed out similar feelings (one of them called it “the epitome of sensationalism”) and some of them emailed the Oregonian to share their thoughts, online editor Mark Friesen wisely decided to change the title to “Bikes and Cars”.
BicyclingHub.com opens doors of new clothing shop
BicyclingHub.com owner Doug Dugay in
front of his new location on the corner
of SE Water and Taylor in Portland.
(Photos © Jonathan Maus)
front of his new location on the corner
of SE Water and Taylor in Portland.
(Photos © Jonathan Maus)
Online bicycling clothing retailer BicyclingHub.com has moved into a new space on the ground-floor of the Water Avenue Commerce Center at the corner of SE Water and Taylor streets.
The business has operated from an office in the same building since 2001. The new location is just one block north of the popular Salmon Street bikeway and the entrance to the Eastbank Esplanade.
Updated: Fatal hit-and-run nets women two months in jail
[NOTE: Please scroll to end of story for an important note.]
“We made the best we could out of this situation.”
–Multnomah County DA Jim Hayden
The two women involved in the fatal hit-and-run that killed Jerry Hinatsu earlier this year will receive a fine, probation and two-months in jail.
After Hinatsu collided with their vehicle, both women then lied to authorities about what happened, did not attend to the victim, then one of them fled the scene in an unlicensed and uninsured car. However, neither of them were found guilty of hit-and-run.
That fact has some people wondering whether or not justice was served.
Seattle cyclist shot on commute home
Several readers have sent in links to a story in Seattle about a cyclist shot by a gun loaded with BBs on his commute home.
Peter McKay was the victim and he’s written about the ordeal on his blog.
Other coverage of the story has come in from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, blogger and advocate Kent Peterson, and local cyclist (and friend of Peter’s) Michael Rasmussen.
State Rep backs Drowsy Driving Prevention Week
Oregon State Representative Jerry Krummel, the Wilsonville Republican who backed “Eric’s Law”, is now getting behind Drowsy Driving Prevention Week.
Here’s the press release from Krummel’s office:
“I’m so glad to see this important public safety issue getting national attention”, said State Representative Jerry Krummel (R-Wilsonville). The first ever Drowsy Driving Prevention Week is being launched by the National Sleep Foundation for November 5th – 11th in an effort to increase public awareness to the dangerous of sleepy driving with an emphasis on young people and advocating for preventative measures at the state level . This is especially important with the change in Daylight Savings Time and the changing seasons.
New York Times notices Portland’s bike culture
Bike parking on SE Belmont
makes the front page of NYTimes.com.
makes the front page of NYTimes.com.
The Monday (11/5) edition of the New York Times features a story on Portland’s bike culture.
The article, In Portland, Cultivating a Culture of Two Wheels, is currently (as of Sunday night) featured on the home page of NYTimes.com and is also accompanied by a video titled, The Business of Biking.
Stolen Felt F1X
Felt F1X cyclocross bike with TruVatiV Rouleur Carbon cranks, full ultegra
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Stolen Haro XLS R7
Haro Mountain Bike. Pink cage, rizer bars, scratches on down tube of frame(paint is rubbed off..looks like its been sanded).
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