(Photo © J. Maus)
The Portland Mercury, a local independent weekly news source, has just launched their annual Auction Issue. The idea is simple: Let the community bid on a huge slew of fun items and gifts and give all the money to a local non-profit.
This year’s benefactor is the Portland Women’s Crisis Line (you might remember them from the great ride they put on back in April).
One of the gifts to bid on is a ride with me (on a new Specialized bike), followed by lunch at Little Red Bike Cafe with the future mayor of Portland, Sam Adams.
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Here’s the description of auction item from the Mercury:
…You’ll take home a sexy Specialized Globe Vienna 1 commuter bike… You’ll need it to enjoy a ride around town with BikePortland.org’s Jonathan Maus, the best reporter in town on all things bike, if we say so ourselves (and we do). After you and Maus soak up the city’s bike boulevards, the two of you will meet up with Sam Adams at the Little Red Bike Cafe, home of delicious sandwiches (we recommend the Zoobomb!) and amazing Courier Coffee. Over lunch, you can pick Adams’ brain on anything you want—or make your pitch for a personal bike lane right from your home to your office. (Hey, dare to dream!)
I’m blushing. Those are some very kind words from the Mercury. I love the “pitch for a personal bike lane” part.
This should be fun. I wonder if anyone will bid on it and how much we’ll end up raising.
Place your bid and check out more information here.