Month: November 2010

Event: BikeYoga (Mon,Wed,Fri)

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Event Name: BikeYoga (Yoga for Cyclists)
Event Start Date: 1 November 2010
Start Time: Mondays 7:00 PM, Weds & Fri 7:00AM
Web Site: http://www.bikeyoga.com
Event Description: Join yoga and bike guru Uma Kleppinger for a class designed to tune up the cyclist body. New BikeYoga classes will be held at Upper Echelon Fitness Monday evenings 7-8pm, and Wed & Fri mornings 7-8am. Drop ins are welcome, all levels from beginner to intermediate will be supported (and challenged). $15 per class or $125 for 10-class package

Questions? Call Uma 503-819-6953

New crossing at MLK and Going: How does it work for you?

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People cross N. Going Street at MLK.
(Photo © J. Maus)

A local TV news outlet is questioning the safety benefit of a crossing treatment recently completed as part of the N. Going bike boulevard project.

I got an email from Scott Burton at KGW TV (Portland’s NBC affiliate) on Friday that they were doing a story about the crossing on their 11 o’clock news. Burton said they’ve received several complaints that since the change, the crossing has become more dangerous. He also said they witnessed a few close calls (bike/car) and that a person walking across was “severely injured” after being hit by a car last week.

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Bid on bike items in Street Roots fundraiser auction

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Street Roots is a great local non-profit newspaper that employs people that live on the street (or are otherwise without a home of their own). They have a new column by the Portland Police Bureau’s bicycle community liaison Robert Pickett and they’ve covered many biking issues in the past. Editor Israel Bayer got in touch recently about their annual online auction. This year they’ve got lots of great bike-related items to bid on….

And there’s more! Get over there and bid on some great stuff and support a vital local independent news source.

Studded tire season is here: Where’s the effort to ban them?

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Just say no.
(Graphic: BanStuddedTires.com)

Today is November 1st, the first official day of studded tire season in Oregon. Back in March we shared why people who ride bikes should care that studded tires do $50-60 million in road damage each year and we also shared that one man was committed to putting a stop to it.

Portland citizen activist Jeff Bernards and a group of volunteers want to ban studded tires in Oregon through a ballot initiative that would be filed in 2012. I checked in with Bernards today to see how things are going.

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Bike touring activism on the Oregon Coast

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Portlander Matt Picio (founder of Cycle Wild, an awesome non-profit that leads carfree camping trips) sent along a photo this morning of a recent bike tour he led out on the Oregon Coast. The photo captures a great example of bike activism in action…

Postcard activism.
(Photo: Matt Picio/Flickr)

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