Job Title
Service Manager
Company/Organization
The Bike Gallery
Job Description
The Bike Gallery is seeking highly experienced professional bike mechanics for Service Department management positions. If you are driven, detail oriented, and passionate about customer service, we want to hear from you.
With car use in decline across the country, millions of urban acreage currently devoted to parking them will soon go fallow.
What to do with all those parking lots? Depave them!
The International Towards Carfree Cities conference kicked off this morning with a depaving event in North Portland.
Scores of volunteers from Portland-based Depave pounded, cracked-up, and then carried away tons of pavement from the parking lot at the SE corner of N. Fargo and Williams.
Portland-based Columbia Sportswear has announced that they have taken over sponsorship of Team High Road (formerly T-Mobile) and new jerseys with “Team Columbia” will debut at the start line of the Tour de France.
This would be first time a Portland company was a title sponsor of such a high-profile racing team. Team High Road is currently the ninth-ranked cycling team in the world and is has more wins in 2008 than any other team in pro cycling. The team also includes U.S. star George Hincapie.
A massive crowd — which some estimate at well over 2,000 riders — took part in the Naked Ride through downtown Portland on Saturday night (technically Sunday morning).
As we made our way from the Northwest Industrial Area to downtown (via Burnside), the immensity of the crowd became evident.
The last few days really kicked the fun up a notch here in Portland.
Pedalpalooza is now in full swing and the events are coming faster than I can keep up with.
Here are some brief reports and photos from two events that happened on Friday:
Last night’s world premiere of Bike Porn 2: Bikexploitation was quite an affair.
The Clinton Street Theater was sold out (and then some) and the action outside was as hot as the movies inside.
Reverend Phil was in his element — even if he was a bit groggy from his unfortunate incident on Tuesday.
Check out some of the sights and sounds by watching my video below or browse the photo gallery (warning: some shots not safe for work)…
This is not a drill. This is the first big weekend of Pedalpalooza and there is no excuse for not getting out and partaking in all the fun.
Below is a listing of all the rides this weekend. The choices are many: discover urban farms, ogle bike art, learn the finer points of bike jousting, get naked (day or night), shred some urban singletrack, show off your panties.
Joel Grover, head buyer for the Bike Gallery, stopped by BikePortland headquarters this afternoon to deliver my latest test bike — a Gary Fisher Simple City.
It’s a pretty basic, flat-bar townie bike. It’s got a 3-speed internal hub, rear coaster brake (front hand brake) and it weighs about 25 pounds. I shot a quick little video (below) and might have more photos and a longer review next week:
[Note: Please bear with me on the video. I’m just beginning to make them and I have a lot of improving to do. My hope is that they give you a little different experience than my usual photos. Thanks.]
[This report was posted to the Shift email list by Emily Wilson.]
Last night, on a balmy June evening approx. 45 bicyclists gathered for a tour to tickle the 5 Senses
We:
– Stopped to Smell the roses in Ladd’s Addition
– Tasted some treats at Voodoo Doughnuts
– Felt the vibration of the pavers and the touch of low hanging branches is Jaimeson Square
– Smelled the hops at Bridgeport and the Felt the cobbles on Marshall
– Enjoyed the sights from the banks of the Willamette, underneath the Fremont Bridge
– Streched our 6th sense, to feel the vibe in the Peace Garden at the top of the East side Esplanade at the Steel Bridge
– Listened to the freight train along the Banfield (because Emily forgot to stop long enough for everyone to hear the kinetic sculpture in
– Waterfront park at the *west* side of the Steele Bridge)
– And made a final stop at Franz Bakery, to smell the bread and take a closer look at all those conveyor belts
All that in 2 hours (!!!)
We had a great ride!
And as a ride leader, I have to say this crowd was very attentive and responsive to the call to ‘saddle up’ and roll to the next stop
And Timo would like to say – “Our riders were sensitive, sensational, and sensible~!”
Remember my story about Unitus Community Credit Union’s bike loan program?
Today, Tracy Streebel from Unitus emailed to let me know they’ve officially launched the program and the website, bicycleloan.com is up and running.
Check it out if you need to get a new bike or some gear but don’t have the cash up front.
Job Title
Bike Delivery Rider
Company/Organization
Old Town Pizza – NE location
Job Description
Portland’s landmark pizzeria has opened a new location in Northeast Portland and is looking for an experienced bike rider to deliver pizza and help out in the restaurant. We’re searching for someone who bikes frequently and has restaurant experience.
At Old Town Pizza, we strive to be a great place to work. If you work 32 hours or more, we provide $600 a year towards a health care fund in your name.
Check us out at oldtownpizza.com
How to Apply
Please send your resume within the email body (attachments won’t be opened) to adam [at] oldtownpizza [dot] com.
“No device is more in keeping with the American spirit than the automobile… they are freedome machines.”
–Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief of CNS News Service.
Terence P. Jeffrey, a columnist with the non-profit Cybercast News Service has penned an interesting article that calls Americans’ languishing love affair with the automobile a “worrisome sign for those who love liberty.”
With the mountain of positive, mainstream news stories about how people are going by bike in record numbers, I was wondering when we’d start to hear from someone with a pro-driving perspective.