Month: March 2008

Registration and Event Website

Join Oregon’s entire cycling community as we work to make Oregon the nation’s premier cycling state. You’ll have the chance to connect with industry peers, learn from inspiring case studies, and engage with public policy issues over a broad spectrum of cycling-related topics including: TRANSPORTATION, RECREATION, TOURISM, INDUSTRY, EVENTS

Keynote speakers include Congressman Earl Blumenauer; Tim Blumenthal, executive director of Bikes Belong; and Hill Abell, board president of the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA). We’ll have a number of breakout sessions geared at specific topics ranging from event planning and creating successful partnerships to sustainable tourism, bike-friendly communities and how to affect policy at the local, state and national level.

Dates: Friday and Saturday, April 4-5, 2008
Site: Red Lion Hotel on the River – Jantzen Beach
Lodging Rates: $99 plus tax per night (ask for the Oregon Bike Summit room block)
Conference Fee: $100 includes Friday dinner and Saturday breakfast, lunch and reception
Exhibitors: Opportunities are available at the Summit for $150. Exhibit fee includes event registration and a skirted table
Event Questions: Please call Tara Corbin at Cycle Oregon – 503.287.0405 ext. 100

If you aren’t on our mailing list, please email Industry@TravelOregon.com and put “Add to Bike Summit mailing list” in the subject line.

We look forward to seeing you in April!

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As a follow up to the Portland Bike Summit, Transportation Options offers a monthly Bicycle Brown Bag Series. The sessions are held on the third Thursday of every month from noon to 1PM at the Portland Building, 1120 SW 5th Ave, second floor. Bring your lunch!

March 20th:

The Bike Box: Portland’s new green space.

Roger Geller, City of Portland Bicycle Coordinator, will discuss how advanced stop bars and colored pavement treatments will help prevent crashes and increase safety for cyclists.

Plus special guest Raymond Gawthorne, veteran driver with the Bureau of Maintenance, offering a perspective on road safety from the cab of a truck.

From Powell’s bookstore calendar:

In an era of steep gas prices, snarled traffic, catastrophic climate change, and a yearning for a higher quality of life, interest in bike-friendly public policies is surging nationwide. Dedicated to the idea that biking is an ongoing act of nondestructive living, J. Harry Wray’s Pedal Power (Paradigm) shows why the dominance of the automobile is yesterday’s idea and edges us closer to a more democratic, multimodal transportation system so essential in the age of global warming. This event is co-presented by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance.

Preorder a signed edition of this book.

Thursday, March 27th @ 7:30pm Powell’s Books on Hawthorne
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd. (800) 878-7323

Website here

The thirteen-member volunteer Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC) meets monthly to review projects of interest to cyclists and discuss bike issues. The committee advises City Council and bureaus on all bicycle-related matters. To get more information about the BAC, you can e-mail Roger Geller.

The BAC meets at 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday of every month.
Meetings are held in the Lovejoy Room in City Hall (1221 SW 4th Avenue).

The 13th Annual Alice Awards & Auction – Official Website

Each year, the BTA awards the Alice Awards to individuals, businesses, and organizations in Oregon and SW Washington whose work has promoted the use of bicycles and increased the livability of our communities.

The annual Alice Awards & Auction honors bicycle advocates from Oregon and SW Washington, and raises funds to support the advocacy work of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. All of the proceeds of the silent and live auctions go to support the BTA’s continuing work on behalf of bicyclists.

The theme of this year’s party is “An Alice in Paris” – we’ll be highlighting the work Paris has done in 2007 to make biking merveilleux.

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
5:00 – 9:30 pm
Oregon Convention Center, Portland Ballrooms
777 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Portland

Doors open at 5:00 PM for complimentary wine, hors-d’oeuvres and the lush Silent Auction.

Dinner, the Live Auction, and the presentation of this year’s Alice Awards will follow.

Your presence at the party supports the BTA’s work! We love to see our members and friends in their finery (don’t worry – Lycra counts). Order your tickets today!

Who is Alice?
Before becoming the famous companion of writer Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas escaped some of the constraints of early-20th century girlhood by means of the bicycle, which allowed her to “go further, faster.”

Alice B. Toeclips, the tongue-in-cheek heroine of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, has followed suit. Since 1995, Alice and her coveted silver toeclips award have crisscrossed the region from Ashland to Vancouver, WA, strengthening bicycle advocacy by recognizing individuals and community groups for stellar works of bike advocacy that have:

* Improved bicycling conditions
* Encouraged children or adults to ride their bikes
* Made communities healthier and happier