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The folks at Vancouver, BC-based Momentum Magazine have combined their passion for safe biking with their fun and fashionable style to create a new PSA for their local Bike to Work Week.
The result is “Let’s Get Visible”, a bike safety video that spoofs the legendary Olivia Newton-John song from 1981.
The following incident was posted on PDXFixed this evening…
On my way to work yesterday (about 2:30), I was going down Moody, just past the Ross Island Bridge. I saw someone on a red road bike get hit by a black sedan, then the sedan drove off.
Front wheel looked all fucked up. Roadie started getting up and seemed alright so I pursued the car. Caught up to him 4 or 5 blocks later at a stopped intersection and got his LP number (while he got out of his car, told me to “mind my own fucking business,” and started to approach me in a threatening way). I rode back to where said cyclist was hit, but he was gone.
Is this anyone on here or anyone’s friend? I’d really like to get that info to the person so they can get their ride fixed.
If you saw this incident or have any information that might help, please contact us and we’ll make sure your information is passed on to the proper person.
The City of Vancouver Washington (just a few short miles north of downtown Portland) has a new bicycle resource card available.
According to Jennifer Campos, a planner in Vancouver’s transportation department, the card is small, portable, and provides all the basic info a bicyclist needs including; who to call for cars parked in the bike lane, traffic signals that aren’t working, potholes or other obsructions in the street, and transit information.
[via Cyclelicious]
Here’s an entertaining bit of guerilla marketing. Check out the recall notice below that appeared in the recent New York Times Special Edition (a face edition of the paper).
One of the biggest stories about this year’s cyclocross season (besides the record crowds) has been the emergence of PDXCross.com.
The site launched back in September and offers a weekly photo slideshow of all the glorious, painful and muddy action. The work is a collaboration between a team of professional photographers who are self-described as an, “improbable group of un-hipsters” who “love photography and cyclocross.”
KGW reports that James Millican, who ran down and then drove with Jason Rehnberg on his hood after Rehnberg (who was on his bike) told him to slow down, has been sentenced to 45 days in jail.
Along with jail, the 21-year-old Millican must do 160 hours of community service, pay Rehnberg $800 for lost wages, and be on probation for three years. Millican was charged with unlawful use of a weapon, DUI, and attempted assault (second degree).
Hold on to your seats folks, here’s your Monday Roundup…
A new bike shop has opened its doors on the corner of N. Page and N. Williams Ave (map). Metropolis Cycle Repair is owned by Nathan Roll and he shares the space with his brother Todd, who operates Pedal Bike Tours.
I stopped by Metropolis on Friday and chatted with Nathan and Todd. Nathan said he lives in the neighborhood and has been looking for an opportunity to open his own shop for years. In the past two years, he’s moved Metropolis from his garage, to working out of BicyclingHub.com’s retail location in the Central Eastside, and finally to his own space.