Year: 2007
Washington County Commissioner gets bike stolen from MAX
Commisioner
Dick Schouten.
Photo: Wash. Co.
Last November, Washington County Commissioner Dick Schouten boarded the Blue Line MAX train at the Hatfield Government Center in Hillsboro. He hung his bike on a hook, sat down, and dozed off for just a few stops.
By the time he opened his eyes, his bike was gone.
Schouten filed a police report and has obtained photos of the thief in action from TriMet security cameras. He can identify the perpetrator (he remembers seeing him on the train) but so far there are no leads in the case.
Oregon Bicycle Summit ends on poignant note
“We can’t leave this conference and go back to our silos.”
–Tom Jefferson, husband of the late Jane Higdon, in a speech at the Oregon Bicycle Summit.
Tom Jefferson, a soft-spoken and thoughtful cyclist from Eugene, was the final speaker at the Oregon Bicycle Summit. Jefferson is the husband of the late Jane Higdon, who was killed while riding her bicycle in Eugene last summer.
Jefferson gave us an update on efforts to honor Higdon’s death and he urged us to work together and “speak the same language” to make Oregon a safer place for bicycles,
Weekend recap: It’s Bike Season in Portland
Bike Season has officially started in Portland. This past weekend was full of interesting and fun bike events for nearly every type of cyclist.
Friday night kicked off with Filmed by Bike. I couldn’t make it this year so I’d love to hear from some of you how it went.
State Bicycle Recreation position faces cut
Oregon Bicycle Summit.
File photo: 4/14/07
Important news from the Oregon Bicycle Summit…
Iris Riggs (in photo) is Oregon’s first ever Bicycle Recreation Coordinator. She was hired last summer by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department to help communities develop bicycle recreation resources, promote bicycle tourism, and more.
According to the BTA, the job was created after the, “culmination of years of work by the biking community.”
Oregon Handmade Bike Show coming in November
Andy Newlands, the man behind the recently founded Oregon Bicycle Constructors Association has announced the first annual Oregon Handmade Bike Show.
The event will be invitation-only and is set for November 10, 2007 and it will be held at the Multnomah Athletic Club in the Goose Hollow area of southwest Portland. Newlands says he pitched the idea to the MAC’s Cycling Committee and it was, “well received”. He hopes to get framebuilders from around the state to exhibit their work at the show.
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