Last night around midnight, two would-be thieves tried to break into Clever Cycles on SE Hawthorne Blvd. Here’s a photo of the scene taken a few hours ago:
Month: November 2008
B-SMaRT close calls/crash reporting tool: One month later
This map shows were close calls and collisions have been reported with the BikePortland B-SMaRT tool.
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(Graphic: Joe Broach).
Click to enlarge
(Graphic: Joe Broach).
Momentum’s new safety vid: “Let’s Get Visible”
Momentum publisher/editor Amy Walker as
Olivia Newton-John in “Let’s Get Visible”.
– Watch video below –
Olivia Newton-John in “Let’s Get Visible”.
– Watch video below –
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.
Help needed in hit-and-run incident near Ross Island Bridge
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.
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Municipal Bicycle Pump, Stockholm
A bike pump provided by the City of Stockholm.
(Photo: Lindsey Maser)
(Photo: Lindsey Maser)
Check out Vancouver’s new bike resource card
All you need to know,
in the palm of your hand.
(Larger views below)
(Photo: Jennifer Campos)
in the palm of your hand.
(Larger views below)
(Photo: Jennifer Campos)
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.
Car recall spoof in NY Times Special Edition
[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).
Cross photos will become “Dirty Pictures” book
Cover of new book based
on Portland cyclocross images.
on Portland cyclocross images.
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.”
45 days in jail for man who drove with someone on his hood
The Oregonian on July 15th, 2008.
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).
Dooring warning, Portland-style
Stencil spotted on N. Williams Ave. a few blocks north of Broadway.
(Photo © J. Maus)
(Photo © J. Maus)