Yesterday, while parked mid-span on the Hawthorne Bridge looking at the high water on the Willamette River, two people caught my eye.
The first was a guy talking on his phone, weaving around the path (which was full of other people) without a care in the world (note how perturbed the other guy biking past him looks)…
In case you’re wondering, it’s not crystal clear whether or not Oregon’s cell phone law, ORS 811.507, applies to people riding bicycles (the law specifically references “motor vehicles”).
And then there was the guy below; riding along with no hands, balancing himself on his pedals out of the saddle…
I hesitate to draw too many conclusions about the state of bicycling in Portland based on these two examples. One thing they do prove to me is that there’s an extremely broad spectrum of riding behaviors going on out there.