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Money to build a bridge over Powell Blvd. has been awarded to the city of Gresham through the federal Transportation Enhancements funding process.
The bridge is a crucial piece of the $9.4 million Gresham-Fairview Trail.
Trail advocate and planner Ric Balfour is spearheading an effort to transform the small town of Vernonia (about 45 miles west of Portland) into a cycling paradise.
The town already boasts the popular Banks-Vernonia Trail, a 20 mile Oregon State Parks trail between the towns of Banks and Vernonia, but Balfour sees much more potential and he’s working hard to create enthusiasm for bikes among the town’s 2,300 residents.
College student Patrick Cook-Deegan will be in Portland tomorrow night to speak about his “Cycle for Schools” bike ride he completed last summer in SE Asia.
He rode 2,800 miles across Laos, Cambodia and Burma and raised $22,500 under for the international literacy non-profit group, Room to Read, which used the money to build a school and a library in a small Laos village.
Cook-Deegan is currently taking this year off from school to speak throughout the country about the trip.
1985 Trek 600 Series. In amazing shape. Shimano 600 components.
Note: Seat is actually black and Bontrager (I still have the original white seat)and handle bar tape is actually black and has white grayish hood. Cateye computer and Ascent front and rear lights. Thank you for caring.
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It is a brand new ’07 model, the bike had a pair of ‘Cateye’ lights, as well as a front and real fender and a mount for teh lock. It was locked at the REI portland store. It turned up missing between 8:00 and 8:30 on tuesday March 6th.
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Job Title – Americorps / Lewis Elementary SmartTrips Coordinator
Company/Organization – City of Portland Transportation Options
Filmed by Bike founder and promoter Ayleen Crotty has announced that the event will expand to seven screenings this year.
That’s up from two screenings at last year’s event when over 250 people were turned away from a packed Clinton Street Theater.
Recently on a local cycling email list, news surfaced that Microcosm Publishing and founder Joe Biel, were leaving Portland.
Microcosm is the company behind most of the bike stickers, zines, t-shirts and general bike propaganda that is a common sight on backpacks and messenger bags throughout the city.
But beyond the stuff they sell, their founder Joe Biel is an artist himself and an active member of the community.
KBOO Bike Show host supreme Ayleen Crotty has announced that all the archives of the show are now available online.
Believe it or not the show has been on the air for over six years. Ayleen and Sara Stout hosted the first show back on October 24, 2001.
Ben Salzberg, a local computer expert and guitarist for bikey band the Trash Mountain Boys, has finally shared his secret knowledge of how to make rear-view cycling mirrors out of a spoke and a beer cap.
He calls them “beer-view” mirrors and has published detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to make them on the popular DIY website, Instructables.