Day: March 18, 2009

Bike Clothing Sales Rep (B. Spoke Tailor)

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Job Title
BIKE CLOTHING SALES REP

Company/Organization
B. SPOKE TAILOR

Job Description
B Spoke Tailor is a new bike apparel line of wool knickers, waxed cotton raincoats, spats and packs, wool knit arm warmers and under-the-helmet hats.

Designed with the lifestyle bike-as-transport modern rider in mind, all of our products are classically stylish and artisan crafted in Oakland, CA with sweat-shop free labor. They have also been tested on the streets and proven great fitting, durable and well loved by our cult following of bicyclists.

We are committed to doing no harm to the environment by promoting bicycling and to creating and sustaining a healthy domestic economy by manufacturing on this continent.

We are seeking to hire four new sales reps, two in the San Francisco Bay Area and two in the Pacific Northwest (Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, BC) to cover the territory of urban and near urban bike shops. If you fit the description below, this may be a wonderful opportunity for you.

YOU:
-Love sales, bikes and fashion
-Can make cold calls
-Have sales and/or bike industry experience you can demonstrate
-Have leads and relationships with bike shops, owners, mechanics, sales staff, soft goods buyers and the like
-Are organized, and
-Passionately and aggressively pursue the things you are committed to.

Your job will be to:
-Seek out and sell to independently owned and small chain store bike shops
-Meet and exceed sales goals for this season

Compensation:
Commission on sales and some product for your personal use

Commitment
Sales activity through Summer 09. Review of contract thereafter.

How to Apply
Email bspoketailor@gmail.com for a quick screening. If we like what we here we’ll interview you on the spot or schedule a time for a phone interview. Please include in the email a resume that includes employment history in sales and/or the bike industry and personal, and previous employer references. If you don’t have a resume on hand, be prepared to give the information to use when you call.

Sparling family files lawsuit against trucking company

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According to The Oregonian, the family of Tracey Sparling — the 19-year who was killed when a cement truck turned right into her in October 2007 — has filed a lawsuit against the trucking company.

Here’s more from The Oregonian:

“The suit was filed Tuesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court against the driver and his company. The suit accuses the driver of negligence for not yielding the right of way under Oregon law and failing to use his mirrors and control the vehicle owned by Rinker Materials.”

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Live from Salem at the Idaho Stop law hearing

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[Note: This story was reported live. For results of the hearing, scroll to the end.]

Rep. Jules Bailey minutes before he
introduced the Idaho Stop bill to his
colleagues on the House Transportation
Committee.
(Photos © J. Maus)

I’m sitting in Hearing Room D inside the Capitol at a hearing by the House Transportation Committee for the BTA’s Idaho Stop law.

In the room are the BTA’s chief lobbyist Karl Rohde, lawyers Ray Thomas and Bob Mionske, members of the BTA’s legislative committee Doug Parrow and Bjorn Warloe and even former BTA executive director Evan Manvel has stopped by (he now works on legislative policy for the Oregon League of Conservation Voters).

Representative Bailey (SE Portland) has just introduced the bill. Bailey is the bill’s chief supporter and he opened his testimony with a copy of the recent Oregon Business magazine that touts the state’s “Bicycle Industrial Complex.”

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Local media releases hounds on Idaho Stop law

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“And you’re scratching your head wondering when was the last time you saw one actually stop.”
— Harry Esteve, The Oregonian

It’s the BTA’s worst nightmare.

They’ve spent months preparing for the smooth passage of the Idaho Stop Law (the proposed bill, HB 2690, would allow bicycle operators to enter a stop-sign controlled intersection without stopping when safe, and once they’ve yielded to all other traffic). Members of their legislative committee have traveled to Idaho to speak with transportation planners and law enforcement officials about the law (which has been on the books there since the 1980s without incident). The BTA’s legislative team has also spent countless hours working the Salem offices of our state legislators answering their questions and clearing up their confusions about the proposed law.

Then, in one fell swoop, the largest media outlet in the entire state can pen a story that pans the idea — and it’s not even on the editorial page.

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BC team takes Oregon Bike Polo Championships

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Oregon Bike Polo Championships-71

More polo action and
faces from the crowd
in slideshow below.
(Photos © J. Maus)

Back on March 8th, the tennis courts at Northeast Portland’s Alberta Park hosted the nation’s best bike polo players at the first annual Oregon Bike Polo Championships.

For the uninitiated, bike polo is like traditional polo on horseback, except it’s played on a bike. The bikes are usually modified to have only one brake (usually on the left side so your strong hand can swing the mallet) and one, easy gear (so you can speed up quickly). Many players add covers to their wheels to keep mallets from flying through them, to deflect a competitor’s shot, or to bank their own shots.

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