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Well, not exactly.
But reports are coming in that the Willamette Week (a free weekly newspaper in Portland) is running radio ads touting their new re-design and that one of them features a Zoobomber as the voiceover.
I haven’t heard it myself, but here’s how one tipster remembers it:
“I heard it on 95.5 (I stopped listening for several months after the unfortunate incident, and I never listen to that stupid “playhouse” show), anyways…
Tonight at the Portland Building a panel discussion is being held to encourage women to participate in bike racing.
Women for Bikes, a loose-knit volunteer group of advocates, hope to show that anyone can dive into racing and that it’s a whole lot of fun.
The panel will include: members of the Sorella Forte cycling club; Dani Dance, organizer of the Single Speed Cyclocross World Championships; and officials from the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association (OBRA), who will demystify the rules and regulations of racing.
[Post updated: 9/27, 11:42am]
At a meeting last week of the Portland Bicycle Advisory Committee (PBAC), TriMet Communications Manager Josh Collins shared details of TriMet’s plans to review 32 locations where bike paths and bike lanes cross MAX tracks.
The review makes good on a promise made by TriMet General Manager Fred Hansen to Sharon Fekety. Fekety broke her arm in three places when she slipped and fell while riding across a MAX track at I-205 and Burnside last March.
Since the incident, Fekety has been persistently lobbying TriMet to take a closer look at improving safety at that, and similar crossings. She maintains her initial claim that a greasy lubricant on the tracks (applied by TriMet) was the cause of her fall. TriMet has confirmed they use a lubricant, but they deny it was ever applied on or near the location where Fekety went down.
Two Portland-area mountain bike advocacy groups hacve been given the green light by Oregon State Parks to begin building a network of freeride and singletrack trails in the newly opened Stub Stewart State Park, a 1,600 acre park located just 31 miles west of Portland in Washington County.
According to Roger Louton of the Portland United Mountain Pedalers (PUMP), they will work closely with another local mountain bike trail advocacy group, the Westside Trail Federation (WTF).
Louton says they have the go-ahead to improve existing, secondary logging roads (aka “skid” roads that are about six feet wide) and build singletrack trails as long as they stay within 100 yards of the existing roads.
Next week over 30 elementary and middle schools in the Portland Metro area (and more than 80 statewide) will kick off the Safe Routes to School season by participating in Walk and Bike to School Day.
The event — which is celebrated worldwide — is organized by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA), the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition (WPC), the City of Portland Office of Transportation (PDOT), and a host of other agencies.
Organizers hope to beat last year’s record student participation and create excitement for the upcoming season of Safe Routes to School activities.
a smallish commuter bike, black novara buzz, kind of worn, the only word distinguishable is buzz. It has disc brakes and a rack on the back.
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Silver and black LeMond Big Sky road bike with one water bottle holder, two sets of breaks and a suspension seat. The pedals are regular non-clip on pedals with some of the reflectors missing.
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2003 Black and Silver 18-speed K2 Bayside Comfort bike with: springs on front fork, adjustable rise handlebar stem (reflective caps on ends are torn), multi-terrain tires (smooth center with tractioned sides), generic seat (replaced when original stolen last year) and pedals replaced with metal ones & plastic toe straps. Circle sticker on bottom bar said “Fear Ends Hope Begins Kucinich 2004”. 2 circle stickers on top bar said “Obama 2008”. Had 3 accessory clips: on handlebars for headlight, on seat post for rearlight and center frame for lock.
It was stolen from my work at Kaiser Permanente. The severed lock was found onsite and our security is investigating what was captured on camera.
I miss my bike 🙁
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[This is the third report in a series on learning cyclocross by contributor Stephanie Chase. Read the other two here and here.]
I run like a fairy. Seriously. Stick me in a tutu, cue “Swan Lake,” and I would fit right in; except for the fact that I’m in cycling shoes, sweating, awkward, and holding a bike.
This morning in front Skidmore Fountain, as MAX trains rumbled by, a small group of supporters and onlookers heard transportation and neighborhood activist Chris Smith make the first speech of his campaign for Portland City Council.
I’ve seen and heard Smith at countless meetings over the years, but now it’s a whole new ballgame.
Imagine being at the Oregon State Fair, chomping on a plate of fried food, and hearing a packed crowd erupt in a thunderous roar as track racers fly by on the way to a thrilling finish.
Earlier this month, a group of track racing promoters met with the Director of Oregon State Parks Tim Wood and took a step toward making that vision a reality.
