Brand: Univega
Color:black
Stolen in Portland, OR
Stolen:2012-09-24
Stolen From: 2nd and couch
Neighborhood: old town/china town
Owner: Amber Swanson
OwnerEmail: aswanson@uoregon.edu
Description: Black women’s univega, vintage road bike with red handlebar tape. Has a sticker that says wilshire west
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 1284103
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike
Year: 2012
Brand: Trek
Model: 7.2
Color:black
Size:17.5
Serial:SWTU109C7354G
Stolen in Portland, OR 97203
Stolen:2012-09-23
Stolen From: University of Portland, Shipstad Hall
Neighborhood: N Portland
Owner: Hannah Stewart
OwnerEmail: hanahstew@gmail.com
Reward: 50
Description: Basic bike with black rack. No other accessories
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Last month we shared the story of Kinn Bikes, a new company that decided to make their frames right here in Portland. Now, another company has decided that Portland is the place to manufacture their bikes. Conscious Commuter Corporation, a company with offices downtown and in Los Angeles, just had a batch of 50 frames made at Zen Bicycle Manufacturing in North Portland.
We shared the launch of Conscious Commuter in June of 2011 and then caught up with them a few months later as they went public with their successful Kickstarter campaign (that raised over $25,000).
According to Bob Vander Woude, the company’s President and CEO, they were very close to producing the frames in China. “There were a lot of people in the industry telling us we had to manufacture in China or we wouldn’t be able to compete,” he told me via phone today. Vander Woude said they were all lined up for a trip to China to visit potential factories. “The more we thought about it,” he said, “It just really started resonating with our core principles,” Vander Woude said about the decision.
Brand: Bianchi
Model: Volpe
Color:dark
Size:green
Serial: H5B13904
Stolen in Portland, OR 97214
Stolen:2012-09-21
Stolen From: Stolen from my porch, tire locked to frame
Neighborhood: sunnyside
Owner: Shawn Johnson
OwnerEmail: beaglehaslanded@gmail.com
Description: Brown bar tape with red, gold and green on the ends. Jerry garcia sticker on cross bar. more red, gold and green tape near back tire. Bike has hub to generate light on front tire.
Police record with: PPB
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
A spoof movie trailer making the local Internet rounds today has transportation wonks crying with laughter. The trailer is for a film dubbed “Sandy Blvd.” and the premise is simple: “Sandy is the worst F#$%I* street ever!” If you watch the clip below at work, just be forewarned there is a lot of profanity.
Year: 2001
Brand: Trek
Model: 1000
Color:Copper
Size:54cm
Stolen in Portland, OR 97209
Stolen:2012-09-22
Stolen From: NW 16th and Lovejoy
Neighborhood: Northwest
Owner: Justin Brown
OwnerEmail: justin_e_brown@yahoo.com
Reward: 300
Description: Copper painted frame with black leather seat and copper rivets. Black carbon fiber fork and racing pedals.
Police record with: Portland PD
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Slate.com has published a very interesting, and I think important, article on why some road users have such anger toward people on bikes. In Why You Hate Cyclists: Partly because of jerks like me. But it’s mostly your own illogical mind, writer Jim Saksa delves into the psychological underpinnings of why bike riders get such a bad rap. His article is a must-read if you want to better understand why we so often hear hate-filled rants about “those crazy cyclists!”
Here’s the gist:
Year: unknown
Brand: Jamis
Stolen in Portland, OR 97202
Stolen:2012-06-01
Stolen From: Found in SE Portland
Neighborhood: Eastmoreland
Owner: Ellen Freeman
OwnerEmail: ellenlouisefreeman@gmail.com
Description: FOUND: Jamis mountain bike. Please contact me with identifying features if you think it’s yours. Model name? Seat? Color scheme? Men’s/Women’s? Hope we can find you!
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike
Year: 2011
Brand: Trek
Model: 700WSD
Color:Blue
Size:16″
Serial:
Photo: http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg853/scaled.php?server=853&filename=46141810151430652440411.jpg&res=landing
Stolen in Portland, OR 97201
Stolen:2012-09-24
Stolen From: Clifton House Apartments, SW 10th and Clifton. Beyond the courtyard is a bike rack with very limited safe access to locking up a frame… but it’s in the middle of the apartments next to the court yard, so you would think it would be safe, right? Wrong.
Neighborhood: Downtown/Near PSU
Owner: Kyla Tompkins
OwnerEmail: theatricalkyla@gmail.com
Reward: 50.00
Description: My beautiful Trek Blue 700WSD got stolen last night/this morning. I’m pretty certain it’s a 16″ because I am 5’4 and it fits me perfectly. I bought it 6 months ago and am trying to acquire a registration or ID number from the woman I bought it from now.
The thief left the front wheel and my U-Lock. My bike has black fenders, a bell, a back reflector light dock (without the actual light since it’s detachable) and my right break was not working when it got stolen, something was wrong with the break cable and it was visible. Someone else’s bike got stolen from my complex, I hope they report it…
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 12-155882
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike
“…although traffic accidents remain a major public safety problem, the biggest killer of people ages 5 to 34, vehicle travel is far safer than it was a few decades ago.”
— The New York Times
Here’s the news and other interesting stuff that caught our eyes this past week…
– The Wall Street Journal takes a look at how “Bicyclists of a Feather Flock Together” in their article based on a new book about the subject of “bike tribes.”
– It’s been a few months since the reauthorization of MAP-21, the national transportation legislation, but our story on the implications of giving local roads over to federal control is creating national concern about the impact of federal road design standards, and some people are asking whether or not it makes sense to have federally controlled transportation projects at all.
– An analysis by the New York Daily News says the delay to New York City’s bike share system is a “blessing in disguise” that will give the city time to further build its network of bicycle infrastructure but also suggests the city should cancel the current contract with Alta Bike Share and restart the search for a bike share provider.