Grindhouse Movie Ride
Friendship Circle, West Side of the Steel Bridge
8:00pm – 12:00am, Ride leaves around 8:30pm
The movie ride is back for the summer and this month will feature grindhouse films! The casual ride takes place at sunset and goes to a secret cinema screening under the stars. Bring some friends, snacks, drinks, and a blanket.
Belmont Bike Art Racks Potluck
Sunnyside Environmental School, SE 34th Ave and Salmon St
6:00pm – 8:00pm, 6:00-8:00 PM *or show up at 5:00 to volunteer*
The Belmont Bike Art project will install art bike racks in the on-street bike parking on Belmont. Come to a fun potluck and vote on the sunflower design that neighborhood artists will build. During May and June, anyone can draw and submit sunflowers in shops on Belmont. All the sunflower drawings will be displayed at the potluck. Anyone who comes can vote for the final design. Come for good food, music, and art — all while make bike parking on Belmont beautiful.
Family Ride to the Columbia River
Vestal Elementary School, 161 NE 82nd Ave (meet behind the school.)
4:30pm
The Columbia River is an easy low-traffic 5 mile bike ride away. If it’s hot we’ll dip our toes in the river and if it’s raining, we’ll button down under the I-205 bridge. Either way, we’ll eat some lunch and meet new friends. Bring a bag lunch and, if you like, something to share. Brought to you by the BTA and Safe Routes to School.
The Wurst Ride of the Year
NW Lucky Lab Beer Hall, 1945 NW Quimby St (Not the one on Hawthorne!)
3:30pm – 6:00pm, Be there at 3:30 for a drink, or 3:45 to ride
Sausage Salvation is at hand. You’ve been on the best rides in the past, now it’s time to taste the Wurst. Just like laws, you don’t want to see how they’re made, but you will see where to get them. Then we’ll roast them in a park. Frosty adult beverage will be procured along the way. Bring cash to trade for links.
Job Title
Bike Assembly positions
Company/Organization
Bike Gallery
Job Description
The Bike Gallery is seeking enthusiastic individuals to join our team of bike assemblers. If you are driven, detail oriented and passionate about cycling and the cycling lifestyle, then we want to hear from you!
This is a unique opportunity to be a part of a what makes Portland such a great place to live and the Bike Gallery continues to be the top rated bicycle retailer in the area and one of the top 100 in the nation. We offer a fast paced and dynamic work environment, competitive benefits package, a supportive and team oriented culture, employee merchandise discounts and opportunities for advancement within a growth oriented, locally owned and operated business.
Bicycle assembly positions require a mechanical aptitude, and a working knowledge of bicycle componentry and mechanical systems; preference wil be given to applicants with previous experience or technical education in the mechanical service of bicycles, or bicycle assembly. Qualified applicants will be tested for speed, accuracy and working knowledge of bicycle assembly procedures.
Bike Gallery is an equal opportunity employer. Bike assembly requires the willingness to work extended hours while standing and the ability to lift 40 pounds to shoulder hieght.
How to Apply
Send a resume and cover letter to resumes [at] bikegallery [dot] com
Portland’s Sprockettes — an all-female mini-bike dance crew — are all set to host bike dance troupes from all over the West Coast at their upcoming “Bicycle Bash”.
The big party will follow the Multnomah County Bike Fair this Saturday (6/28) and will feature a prize giveaway, a silent auction (items include a custom, pink-and-black Chris King headset), an art show, bike films and photos on projectors, beer, a DJ’d dance party, and a bunch of live performances.
Portland lawyer Ray Thomas has released a do-it-yourself toolkit of resources and case studies meant to help anyone who seeks to bring violators of traffic laws to justice.
The process, known as a “citizen initiation of violation proceedings,” is based on an Oregon law (ORS 153.058) that gives a citizen the right to file a traffic citation against another citizen.
Back in February, we followed a high-profile example of this process.
In that case, Christopher Heaps (a lawyer by training) and several volunteers spent hours requesting paperwork from the police and negotiating the court system to force a driver of a car who had hit a woman on a bike to show up in court and face justice.
U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer shared his daily ride to his office on Capitol Hill with a reporter from National Public Radio yesterday.
Here’s one of the exchanges they had while riding the streets of D.C.:
NPR:
“Why hasn’t Congress been able to do anything on climate change?”
Blumenauer:
“There is a huge gap here on Capitol Hill — even thought the rhetoric has changed — the mindset is going to require some significant adjustment. This stuff takes time…”
Listen to the entire interview (4:19) at NPR.org.
“This has left many in the mountain biking community very frustrated.”
–Shane Gould, Portland United Mountain Pedalers
Mountain bikers throughout Oregon, with support from the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) and the Oregon Mountain Bike Alliance (ORMBA), are miffed at a recent proposal by Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Portland) to ban mountain bikes from the Boulder Lake and Twin Lakes areas near Mt. Hood.
[This post is part of BikePortland’s ongoing coverage of Pedalpalooza 2008. See more ride reports, videos and photos here.]
Greetings intrepid bike fun lovers. Only a few glorious days of remain of this year’s Pedalpalooza, and there’s plenty of action still to be had.
Today’s offerings include a special appearance by Dingo the Clown; that bike-loving, tall-bike riding, banjo-playing former denizen of the Alberta Street Clownhouse. Dingo and his friends have re-made themselves into the Blood Sugar Circus and today they’ll be getting wet and wild in the name of bike fun.
Also on today’s ride menu are a parking spot reclamation ride, a hunt for sausages, a potluck to help choose new art rack designs for SE Belmont Street, and an evening outdoor movie and picnic.
The City of Portland is expanding the scope of their annual bike counts and they need volunteers to help them do it.
Denver Igarta, a transportation planner with PDOT, says they want to cover 140 locations this year. That’s an increase over the 98 locations they counted in 2007, which was up from the 60 locations they counted in 2006.
This ride report is part of BikePortland.org’s 2008 Pedalpalooza coverage.
The following was written by Michael Jones.
