@ NW Johnson & 10th (Jamison Square)
Come early to meet / Decorate your bike / At 7:00 we ride!
Kick it off! Bring out the bike love on a costumed, decorated, escorted Bike Parade.
Shift, dontbecreepy at gmail daht comm
Kickoff Parade!
Month: June 2007
Bakfiets/Cargobikes Pre-Parade Meet-up
@ 1036 NW Hoyt St (Low Brow Lounge, then Jamison Square @ 10th and Johnson)
Meet at bar then go to Jamison Square to decorate bikes.
Gathering all bakfiets, CAT cargobikes, and workbikes, etc. for group ride together as part of Pedal Palooza kick off parade. Bring kargo and kids.
Todd Boulanger, oulanger at excite daht comm, www.bakfiets.nl/, 360-281-0944
Tall-Bike Making Workshop
@ 4205 NE 14th Ave
Come work and learn how to make a tall-bike for the Stumptown Joustdown that following weekend. Please bring ur own projects. A good tall bike starts with two good mountain bikes (with most of the components still there) and wide steering tubes. Donations are gladly accepted. Hosted by Turbo and Fecal-B-rone Benjamin (Jah-Lover). 4205 NE 14th Ave at 10:00 (start early to get it done!).
Turbo, morganic007 at yahoo daht comm
Rose Festival permit allows restriction, diversion of cyclists
In doing some research for my story about Casey Martell being thrown out of Waterfront Park for riding his pedicab, I came across the Rental Contract and Facility Usage Permit that the Rose Festival has purchased (for $89,760) from the Parks Department.
The permit — which includes, “Salmon Street Spring Fountain and all Park walkways,” contains a section that grants the Rose Festival the right to restrict bicycle access to the Esplanade.
“The Portland Rose Festival is allowed to restrict such uses as, inclusive but not limited to, persons riding bicycles, persons vending without a Park permit, persons riding skateboards or roller blades and any reasonable restrictions to insure public safety.”
The permit goes on to make a special stipulation for bike commuters,
Wend Magazine chases a Portland alleycat
From Wend Magazine, Spring ’07.
The Spring ’07 issue of Portland-based Wend Magazine, has a feature article on a recent Portland alleycat race.
Alleycats — which are usually put on by messengers, but everyone is welcome to participate — have become a regular fixture on the Portland bike scene.
Wend contributor Johnathon Allen captures the spirit of this fun, yet hardcore discipline with great images and an engaging, first-person narrative (he competed in the event he writes about). Here’s an excerpt from the beginning of his piece:
SK Northwest persists, appeal hearing tomorrow
SK Northwest — one of Oregon’s largest dealers of personal watercraft and ATV’s — refuses to give up on their plans to develop property on the Willamette (without granting riverfront trail access) just south of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI).
PUMP will show singletrack to stakeholders
(File photo)
The Portland United Mountain Pedalers (PUMP) want to show Portland officials what singletrack is all about. They’ve sent an invite to City Commissioners, Parks Department staffers and other key stakeholders for a mountain bike ride through Forest Park later this month.
According to PUMP, the ride will show “what is possible if we focus on environmentally-friendly recreational opportunities,” and will include a “discussion of opportunities for creating additional singletrack within city limits.”
Belmont gets grant to bolster bike parking
Bill Stites accepts grant from APNBA.
Photo: APNBA
Photo: APNBA
The Belmont Area Business Association has received a $5,000 grant that will go towards a project to install two on-street bike parking facilities on SE Belmont Ave (you might recall my story on this project from back in February).
The grant was awarded April 23rd at the annual meeting of the Alliance of Portland Neighborhood Business Associations (APNBA).
Stolen Schwinn Jaguar
brand new jaguar with fixed baskets above rear tire, blue color – BIG handlebars
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20,000 comments and counting…
Screenshot from the admin
panel of my blog program.
panel of my blog program.
I’ve been watching my comment counter creep up to 20,000 the last few weeks and as I write this is already up to 20,106!
It took about 15 months to reach 10,000 comments and less than half that to reach 20,000.
Stolen Trek 4900 Mountain
17″ Silver Trek 4900 Mountain bike. Clip pedals. Shimano components.
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