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Month: March 2011
Job of the Week
Picture this: Days filled with the whir of freewheels and the intoxicating allure of freshly opened Tubasti…crowds of people – fans certainly – awaiting your enthusiastic assistance enabling their next bike ride. That apron, fit like a full custom Pegoretti… the satisfaction in a workday well spent.
Living large in Lake Oswego. It could be you:
- Bicycle Mechanic — Lakeside Bicycles
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Black with Blue Stripe Jamis Ventura 2009
Year: 2009
Brand: Jamis
Model: Ventura
Color:Black with Blue Stripe
Size:51 cm – Female
Serial: U92K59656
Stolen in Portland, OR 97206
Stolen:2011-03-23
Stolen From: Stolen from the corner of NW 13th and Couch across the street from Whole Foods and East from Chase Bank.
Neighborhood: Pearl District
Owner: Nicole Watson
OwnerEmail: nicole.m.watson@gmail.com
Description: 2009 Jamis Ventura Model for a female. Black with blue and white. Has a sticker that says Corey the Bike Fixer. Also has metal cages and a case on the seat.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 11-023051
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Salem Watch: CRC could get vote in House committee Monday
“The BTA is concerned about the cost of the CRC… Though this bill does not have a fiscal statement the bridge itself puts the State of Oregon on the hook for at least $400 million dollars.”
— Gerik Kransky, BTA
Oregon lawmakers will weigh in on the controversial Columbia River Crossing project this Monday when House Joint Memorial 22 (text) gets a public hearing and possible vote in the House Transportation and Economic Development Committee.
HJM 22 is a pro-CRC statement that, “urges the federal government” to fund the project. If passed, it would send a strong message that Oregon is behind the project and a copy of the statement would go to President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House John Boehner, every member of the Oregon Congressional Delegation and to US DOT Secretary Ray LaHood.
Here’s an excerpt from the text of HJM 22:
purple/carbon trek 2300 1992
Year: 1992
Brand: trek
Model: 2300
Color:purple/carbon
Size:56cm
Stolen in Portland, OR 97213
Stolen:2011-03-22
Stolen From: stolen from house garage
Neighborhood: hollywood district,ne portland
Owner: david ciochetti
OwnerEmail: dciochetti@att.net
Reward: $100
Description: small surfer decal on head tube instead of trek plate, bontrager rims tandem spoke pattern, tube to lug connection at head, seat tube, bottom bracket age discolored
Police record with: portland pd
Police reference#: 11-23315
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Downtown businesses push for carfree SW Ankeny street
Business owners want this to be the norm on SW Ankeny Street, shown here during an event in 2006.
(Photo © J. Maus)
(Photo © J. Maus)
New MTB trail system planned in Cascade Locks
Some of the proposed trails.
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It’s still a drive from Portland, but as far as I’m concerned, any new mountain bike trails in our region are worth celebrating and supporting. It’s with that in mind that I share news of the Cascade Locks International Mountain Bike (CLIMB) Trails System. This project, in the works since 2007, includes a plan for 25 miles of MTB trails that would be developed as a major tourism draw for Hood River County and the city of Cascade Locks. Here’s more from a fact sheet on the project:
Bike to Blazers is coming! Get all the details
Me, circa 2006.
When I put together the first Bike to Blazers event back in 2006 (see photo at right), it was just a group ride to the arena with a few small perks we worked out with Blazers front-office staff. The goal all along was to get the Blazers organization excited about it so they’d adopt it as their own. After a super-fun and successful event last year, it seems like that’s starting to become a reality.
This year, the Blazers have really stepped up for the event and we couldn’t be more excited. Check out the logo they made for the official event flyer…
In shift from tradition, BTA announces Alice Award winners prior to event
Citizen activist Kiel Johnson is one of
four winners announced today.
(Photos © J. Maus)
four winners announced today.
(Photos © J. Maus)
I got an unexpected email this morning from the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. The local bike advocacy group is working on their major fundraising event of the year, The Alice Awards and Auction (set for April 23rd); but instead of announcing the winners at the gala like usual, they decided to share the winners today.
Why? Here’s how the BTA puts it:
“…These individuals did not sit back and wait for the movement to come their way. “Why wait?” they asked. Instead, they took stock of their resources, looked to their allies and partners, and seized the moment of transformation.
Inspired by the actions of these individuals, the BTA asks the same question of ourselves. “Why wait?” Why keep the knowledge to ourselves, when we are bursting to shout it out to the world?”
So, without further ado, below are the 2011 Alice Award winners (a.k.a. “Bike Superheroes”):
Bike Business Briefs: New locations, expansions, and national accolades
Sugar Wheel Works and Sweetpea
Bicycles will soon share a storefront
on N. Williams.
(Photo: Sweetpea Bicycles)
Bicycles will soon share a storefront
on N. Williams.
(Photo: Sweetpea Bicycles)
Portland’s bicycle industrial complex continues to flourish even in these slow economic times. Bike businesses are hiring employees, expanding their reach, moving to new locations, and more.
Scroll down for several bits of news from local bike businesses, all wrapped up into one post for your reading convenience…
Black Star Bags moves to Hawthorne
Black Specialized Big Hit 2010
Year: 2010
Brand: Specialized
Model: Big Hit
Color:Black
Size:Small
Serial: wsbc601027663f
Photo: http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/6040822/
Stolen in Portland, OR 97299
Stolen:2011-03-23
Stolen From: Back of a ford explorer…..theif broke the rear window leaving stereo equipment and riding the bike away.
Neighborhood: SW Barnes Rd at the top of Burnside Rd
Owner: Leland Chan
OwnerEmail: Austin.gettel@gmail.com
Description: Brand New Stock w/ Red Crank brothers Pedals
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Off-duty Portland cop allegedly assaulted while biking to work
Larry Fornshell’s booking photo.
A Portland Police Bureau Sergeant who was riding his bike into work yesterday morning was involved in an altercation with a man driving a car that has resulted in the driver being arrested for hit and run and attempted assault.
Here’s how it played out according to a PPB press release (emphasis mine):
“Early Tuesday morning March 22, 2011, a Portland Police Sergeant was riding his bike to work eastbound on Northwest Cornell Road when a motorist drove along side of his bike within inches of hitting him while riding. The driver, later identified as 68-year-old Larry Fornshell, passed Sergeant Santos and continued on. When both came into town to a traffic control device, Sergeant Santos rode to the right of Mr. Fornshell’s car. Fornshell turned right, into Santos.