Got any bike adventures planned for the weekend?
About 60 people got their weekend started on a fun note at Critical Mass last night. The ride was fun, mellow, cop-less, and ended with a dance party in front of the entrance to the Portland Auto Show (report, photos on Monday).
road bike handlebars.frame painted red and black with a layer of art paint under spray paint. twenty one speed with original shifters on handlebars. no pads on handlebars. basicly a frankenstein that i built from three wrecked bikes. red painted rims
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Silver Raleigh Mojave 2.0 w/ silver fenders. Also had a pannier rack, a toploading bag, and a speedometer on the handlebars. There are greenish scratch marks on top part of left gear shifter. Excellent condition. Bike lock might still be locked onto front part of frame.
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Meet at People’s Food Co-op, 3029 SE 21st Ave.
Learn how one person has been making a living running a Community Supported Agriculture operation in Portland out of a network of plots around the city, providing fresh produce to dozens of people, selling at farmers? markets, and doing most of it by bicycle.
http://trashfactory.net/sunrootgardens/
11:00 AM
705 N. Alberta St.
Coffee, blah blah before. But most importantly? P B R. We have a lot of the Pabst. Please to be drinking the Pabst. With pizza. Yes. Short move, lot of beer.
DRINK RIDE DANCE
7:30 PM
Lucky Lab (915 SE Hawthorne)
Come to the SE Lucky Lab for a drink, and conversation, then ride to the FEZ Ballroom (316 SW 11th at Burnside)for smoke-free dancing at Portland?s only Bhangra and Bollywood night, and possibly more drinking.
I don’t usually re-post stories that are flying around the Internet, but two recent stories deserve attention for the level of indifference and callousness they show toward people on bikes.
The first story comes from Tucson Arizona. The snip below is from a story posted on CNN.com yesterday:
“A judge sentenced a woman to nearly the maximum prison term for negligent homicide after hearing a recorded jail conversation in which she made light of the bicyclist she killed…
At a meeting in Portland’s downtown library earlier this week, the Oregon Bicycle Tourism Partnership came together to strategize about how to make Oregon the premier bicycling destination in the country.
The group is a joint venture spearheaded by Oregon State Parks, Travel Oregon, Cycle Oregon, and others.
Critical Mass — that enigmatic, fun, controversial, “defiant celebration” of bikes as traffic — has been all but missing from Portland’s bike scene lately.
The theories about its demise vary, but in the last year or so it seems to have lost its mojo here in “Bike City USA”.
I never got a chance to write about this, so below is a pasted announcement from the City of Eugene about their Walking and Biking Summit.
*Come Get Involved!*
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In a rare move for an aspiring politician, City Council hopeful Jim Middaugh is telling supporters to stop giving him money.
In a statement released late Thursday night, he claimed they are “over the top” with $5 contributions. “In fact,” the statement said,
“We’re over the top so far that I need to ask you to please stop gathering new contributions. We can’t keep up.”
Middaugh, a daily bike rider who I met with last week, had to submit 1,000 $5 contributions by January 31st to qualify for public financing.