Month: April 2013

Black Fuji Team le 2005

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Year: 2005
Brand: Fuji
Model: Team le
Color:Black
Size:56cm
Stolen in Ptld, OR 97266
Stolen:2013-04-18
Stolen From: Eastport la fitness
Neighborhood: Lents
Owner: Thomas Iden
OwnerEmail: Tomiden( atsign )hotmail.com
Reward: 100$
Description: Excellent cond. fuji black embossed seat toe clips carbon front fork ultegra components rear detachable fender underseat pack black bar tape
Police record with: East precinct
Police reference#: 1330883
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Why use bikes for business? Two Portlanders share their stories

Two more bike-based businesses.

Recently I’ve learned about two more Portland businesses that have made bicycles an integral part of their business. Crank Roasting is a new coffee company and Co-Creative Pruning has been in business since 2010. I asked the owners of both businesses to share more about what they do and why they’ve decided to use bicycles.

Cory Love, owner of Crank Roasting:

“I have been involved in coffee roasting over the last 15 years. My love of riding and racing bikes goes back to my childhood – racing BMX through the late 70’s and 80’s and then in my mid 20’s I got into road cycling and racing. As my family and business became busier in my 30’s, I was finding it harder to ride consistently. I started dreaming about a way to be able to have bicycling be integral to my business.”

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olive green redline conquest sport 2011

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Year: 2011
Brand: redline
Model: conquest sport
Color:olive green
Size:48cm
Serial: isbs11d11422
Photo: http://i.imgur.com/D61OMxo.jpg
Stolen in Vancouver, WA 98664
Stolen:2013-04-18
Stolen From: it was hanging on a hook in a ceiling beam on my back patio, locked with a thick chain and master lock
Neighborhood: Ogden
Owner: cesar fernandez
OwnerEmail: cesarcolyn(replace with at sign)gmail.com
Reward: yes
Description: 700×23 serfas seca survival tires, blackstar top tube pad, campagnolo steel toe clips, black planetbike back rack, brown leather bar tape, kryptonite “PDX” green lock attached to rack
Police record with: vancouver PD
Police reference#: T13000841
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Job: Mechanic/sales/service – Waterfront Bicycles

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Job Title
Mechanic/sales/service

Company/Organization
Waterfront Bicycles

Job Description
This is a seasonal position working in a fun customer service centered shop. We have the largest fleet of rental bikes in the city and enjoy a brisk summer of tourist with lots of energy for exploring Oregon by bike. We also sell retail bicycles and gear.
This position requires the ability to service rental bikes and equipment so we ask applicants have shop experience and/or completion of mechanic school.
Excellent customer service experience is needed for sales and rentals. Knowledge of how to get around Portland by bike is required to rent and explain destinations. extended knowledge of Oregon by bike is a plus.
This is a Part-time seasonal position.

How to Apply
Please email cover letter with resume for consideration to karen@waterfrontbikes.com

Finally! A crosswalk and median installed at E Burnside and 16th

Crews at work this morning.
(Photo: Chris Sanderson)

At long last the City of Portland is making the crossing of E Burnside at 16th safer for everyone.

This intersection — which is just three blocks north of Buckman Elementary School — has been known as a safety hazard for many years. Back in December of 2007, I attended a rally at this intersection organized by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) to show PBOT that young children and their families put themselves at risk whenever they attempt to cross it. Also in 2007, the Portland Police Bureau (in partnership with PBOT) did a crosswalk enforcement action at this location. In just an hour-and-a-half, they wrote 35 citations for Failure to Stop for a Pedestrian.

Back then, we heard promises that funding had been secured. Then we heard funded had been delayed. Basically, it was the same old story we hear about many places around town in need of small — yet urgently necessary — safety fixes.

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PSU researcher delving into “multimodal road rage”

Traffic observations- NE Alberta St-8

Could road rage tell us something
about the gender gap in bicycling?
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)

Tara Goddard, a PhD candidate in Urban Studies at Portland State University (PSU), is devoting her thesis to a subject that gets a lot of traction in the media but so far has received scant attention in academia: road rage between people who drive and people who bike.

According to Goddard, her research will focus on the “interactions between drivers and bicyclists,” an aspect of “transportation psychology” research that is largely untapped (most major studies have focused on driver-to-driver rage). Goddard plans to delve into the mechanisms and predictors of driver-rider road rage. “For example, as drivers, we experience (and sometimes perpetrate) law-bending/breaking all the time,” she shared via email. “It is socially acceptable, in many ways. But any scofflaw behavior on the part of a bicyclist suddenly condemns the entire bicycling world.”

Why does that happen? Goddard has a few hunches:

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Black Specialized Hardrock 2007

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Year: 2007
Brand: Specialized
Model: Hardrock
Color:Black
Stolen in Portland, OR 97219
Stolen:2013-04-16
Stolen From: Bike racks outside of Lincoln Hall at PSU. Broadway and Hill.
Owner: Molly Barbano
OwnerEmail: molbaker(A T)pdx.edu
Description: Triangular red light on back, beneath seat.
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike

brown Trek Portland 2009

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Year: 2009
Brand: Trek
Model: Portland
Color:brown
Size:big
Serial: WTU 248 SZ 0290 D
Photo: http://i.imgur.com/71fQq1g.jpg
Stolen in Portland, OR 97227
Stolen:2013-04-17
Stolen From: 2124 N Flint Ave (just north of Tillamook)
Neighborhood: Eliot
Owner: Graham Mackenzie
OwnerEmail: graham.arthur.mackenzie(A T)gmail.com
Reward: a hug and a chaste kiss
Description: Brown Trek Portland. Biggest one they make. Full black fenders. Black back rack. Black handlebar tape. Shimano hybrid pedals (SPD/Flat.) Orange Kryptonite U-lock might still be attached. 917 922 0481
Police record with: Portland PD Officer Hill #36236
Police reference#: 13-30696
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

City Club of Portland announces ‘Civic Salon’ on The Future of Biking

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Screen grab of City Club website.

The City Club of Portland has just announced their next crop of ‘Civic Salons‘ and I’m excited to share that — along with news, sports, schools, books, and food — bicycling is among the topics they’ve chosen to focus on. Not only that, but guess who they asked to lead The Future of Biking discussion? That’s right: I hope you’ll consider joining me and other bike-curious Portlanders on May 15th for this event.

I’ve never attended a Civic Salon, but the basic idea is right up my alley: “Bring people together for great discussion and good food in intimate settings.” Here’s more from the City Club website:

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black KHS 2012

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Year: 2012
Brand: KHS
Color:black
Size:medium
Stolen in Portland, OR 97205
Stolen:2013-04-16
Stolen From: 720 SW Washington, 97205
Neighborhood: Downtown
Owner: Laura James
OwnerEmail: pcdrlaura( atsign )yahoo.com
Reward: No
Description: Black frame KHS, yellow plastic fenders, 21 speed. “Female” bike with angled (not straight horizontal) top tube. Top tube is actually two parallel bars, with little crossbars at three points. At time of theft, had a little bell, two red lights one front one back, and a rack attached.
Police record with: Portland PD
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike

PBOT nears final decision on “right-sizing” and bike lane for SE Division

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A bike lane could be in Division’s future

A road diet on one of Portland’s most dangerous “high crash corridors” is looking more and more likely as the Bureau of Transportation gets set to hold its final open house on the SE Division Street Safety Project later this month. PBOT has proposed re-striping Division between 60th and 82nd from its current configuration of four standard lanes to a new configuration that would have two standard lanes, a center turn lane, and two bike lanes.

Since PBOT presented their plans last year, neighborhood groups and citizens involved in the process have been very supportive of the idea. The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) has also thrown their weight behind the project, and they’re urging PBOT to extend the proposed lane configuration further west to SE 52nd in order to connect to the forthcoming 50s Bikeway and a nearby park.

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White with the red/orange/yellow decal stripes Peugeot St. Laurent 1980’s

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Year: 1980’s
Brand: Peugeot
Model: St. Laurent
Color:White with the red/orange/yellow decal stripes
Photo: http://store.bicycleczar.com/19-Made-in-Canada-Peugeot-St-Laurent-18-Speed-p/02130004.htm
Stolen in Portland, OR 97202
Stolen:2013-04-11
Stolen From: 33rd and Brooklyn (SE
Neighborhood: Brooklyn (SE)
Owner: Iris Briand
OwnerEmail: irisbriand( atsign )yahoo.com
Description: The photo URL is a link to a bike that looks exactly like mine but mine is a women’s (I don’t have a photo of my bike so I wanted to have you know what it looks like). Mine is more beat up with some dings in the paint and the fenders are taped on with black duct tape if the person who stole it didn’t remove them. The seat is a velo plush seat which is very cushiony.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 13-28958
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike

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