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[Updated: 7:05pm, 1/28]
Sources say that the DMV office in Salem has stopped issuing Oregon’s new “Share the Road” license plates.
According to an email I received from a reader, as of last Friday (1/25), the DMV has suspended all applications for the special plates “pending some sort of legal issue,” with the plates’ designer.
33 year-old Northeast Portlander Aaron Hayes has gone from zero-to-NAHBS in just six months.
Burnt out from his job as a consumer products designer for Portland-based Ziba Design, Hayes launched Courage Bicycle Mfg., at the suggestion of his girlfriend. “She was volunteering with a school group that visited Ira Ryan’s shop up in St. Johns and she came home and said, ‘Why don’t you build bikes?'”
A veteran racer and bike lover for many years, that was all the nudge Hayes needed.
[Updated: 3:27pm]
The majority of Vancouver (WA) City Council members are reportedly in favor of expanding a youth helmet ordinance to include adults.
The ordinance was first heard by City Council earlier this month and based on recent comments by four of the seven councilmembers, there is some momentum to amend the ordinance to make it apply to adults as well as kids.
*The Vancouver Bicycle Club is also supportive of an all-ages law. Former club President Joe Toscano told me today that the club wrote a letter of recommendation to Council asking them to expand the ordinance to adults. Toscano said that, “We just think it makes sense that if you have the law for kids, you should have adults setting the example.”
Around 60 Portlanders remembered Critical Mass last Friday. While that number may seem low, it was the biggest turnout the ride has seen in many months.
After seeing signs of a resurgence, I showed up to Friday’s ride (for the first time in over a year) to see how it would go.
orange and black big 23 in frame toe-clip pedals frame mounted pump front accessory bag (gray) mounted with fat slicks
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Trek 800 mountain bike, bell saddle, blue seat pack, newish kevlar street tires
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Got any bike adventures planned for the weekend?
About 60 people got their weekend started on a fun note at Critical Mass last night. The ride was fun, mellow, cop-less, and ended with a dance party in front of the entrance to the Portland Auto Show (report, photos on Monday).
road bike handlebars.frame painted red and black with a layer of art paint under spray paint. twenty one speed with original shifters on handlebars. no pads on handlebars. basicly a frankenstein that i built from three wrecked bikes. red painted rims
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Silver Raleigh Mojave 2.0 w/ silver fenders. Also had a pannier rack, a toploading bag, and a speedometer on the handlebars. There are greenish scratch marks on top part of left gear shifter. Excellent condition. Bike lock might still be locked onto front part of frame.
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Meet at People’s Food Co-op, 3029 SE 21st Ave.
Learn how one person has been making a living running a Community Supported Agriculture operation in Portland out of a network of plots around the city, providing fresh produce to dozens of people, selling at farmers? markets, and doing most of it by bicycle.
http://trashfactory.net/sunrootgardens/
11:00 AM
705 N. Alberta St.
Coffee, blah blah before. But most importantly? P B R. We have a lot of the Pabst. Please to be drinking the Pabst. With pizza. Yes. Short move, lot of beer.
DRINK RIDE DANCE
7:30 PM
Lucky Lab (915 SE Hawthorne)
Come to the SE Lucky Lab for a drink, and conversation, then ride to the FEZ Ballroom (316 SW 11th at Burnside)for smoke-free dancing at Portland?s only Bhangra and Bollywood night, and possibly more drinking.