Year: 1970s
Color:rusty red
Size:58cm
Stolen in PDX, OR 97232
Stolen:2013-10-31
Stolen From: Sandy and NE 17th Ave
Neighborhood: Kerns
Owner: Sasha Ross
OwnerEmail: a.reid.ross(AT)gmail.com
Description: Steel frame, painted over with rusty red color (no visible brand), mostly campy parts, clipless pedals, mavik G40 rims, back bike rack and bike bag under saddle
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Year: 2010-12
Brand: Trek
Model: MT 220
Color:Red/Silver
Size:24″ Wheels
Serial: RET0957
Stolen in Portland, OR 97211
Stolen:2013-10-31
Stolen From: NE 32nd Place and Alberta
Neighborhood: Alberta Arts, Concordia
Owner: Mike Rhodes
OwnerEmail: not.mikerhodes(at sign)gmail.com
Description: This is a kids Mountain Bike. It has a Bike Gallery sticker on the frame but a serial # and tag from Community Cycling Center.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: T13011122
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Michael Hanchin couldn’t take any more hours behind the wheel.
“You would never know where there’s a loading zone,” the veteran Portland Mercury delivery contractor, 42, recalled Wednesday. “I think that’s what did me in.”
Hanchin’s back ached from crawling into the bed of his truck to haul out 18-pound newspaper bundles on hands and knees. His fuel and repair costs were eating up his contract income. Sometimes, when he couldn’t find anywhere to park downtown, he’d sit behind his wheel and glare at other contractors while they ate lunch in their rigs, hogging the available space.
Then, after five years of delivering the Mercury to inner Southwest Portland every Wednesday, Hanchin had a revelation.
Now that New Seasons Market has opened on a busy block of the N Vancouver/Williams couplet, we weren’t surprised when a reader emailed us about a traffic safety concern. The streets on both sides of the new store were already busy thoroughfares for buses, bikes, and cars — so adding in the traffic of a popular grocery store was almost certain to raise some issues.
Staple racks at the grocery store blocked by piles of pumpkins; events with 800 people and zero additional bike parking; apartment buildings with dozens of wall hooks that are difficult and awkward to use for many people…
Portland is full of bike parking problems. Fortunately, most of them are solvable.
On Tuesday night, Jonathan and I joined the bike coordinators for Oregon’s two largest-employment universities, three representatives of bike parking equipment companies, two city employees, three architects, a team of engineers, the operator of the largest bike valet in North America and 25 other wonky Portland citizens for drinks and sandwiches to start talking about the solutions.
Year: 2009
Brand: Kona
Model: Hula
Color:white/red
Serial:SA80735451
Stolen in Portland, OR 97212
Stolen:2013-10-28
Stolen From: Courtyard at Beverly Cleary School
Neighborhood: Grant Park
Owner: Peter Linssen
OwnerEmail: peter@petesvshop.com
Description: Standard Kids Hula
Police record with: Portland Police Dept.
Police reference#: T13011129
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Year: Not sure
Brand: Mongoose
Model: Mt bike
Color:Grey
Size:Medium
Stolen in Portland, OR
Stolen:2013-10-26
Stolen From: NW Broadway and 8th or so
Neighborhood: Downtown on Broadway
Owner: John Roscoe
OwnerEmail: Johnroscoe72(A T)gmail.com
Reward: $100
Description: Grey men’s full suspension Mongoose mountain bike with disc brakes, Bontrager tires, size medium.
Police record with: Yes
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike
Year: 2009
Brand: specialized
Model: langster single speed
Color:silver
Size:54-56
Stolen in Portland, OR 97202
Stolen:2013-10-26
Stolen From: off of the blue line on the max on sat afternoon.
Neighborhood: all that the blue line covers
Owner: ben helmke
OwnerEmail: benhelmke(at sign)gmail.com
Reward: yes if returned 100.00
Description: silver paint, baby blue hand wraps, has a trek seat bag, planet bike fenders, pedals have toe chages with no strap. also has cheese stickers and a imitation crab sticker. specialized seat. single speed to fixed gear hub.
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Year: 2013
Brand: K2
Model: T9 Echo 2.0
Color:Baby Blue
Size:Medium
Photo: http://www.sportsauthority.com/product/index.jsp?productId=10995331
Stolen in Portland, OR 97211
Stolen:2013-10-30
Stolen From: MLK and Graham
Neighborhood: MLK
Owner: Emily Verbanic
OwnerEmail: Everbanic(at sign)hotmail.com
Description: Pretty much stock but with a red specialized water bottle cage
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Martina Fahrner of Clever Cycles on Southeast Hawthorne lived up to her bike shop’s name Tuesday after the bridge of her glasses broke.
“They just snapped in the middle,” the shop owner and Bicycle Transportation Alliance board member said in a phone interview Wednesday. “The next morning I went to work, and they snapped again. So I had to find something to stabilize them.”
The problem was that, even glued together, the glasses didn’t pinch her nose properly. So she started looking around the shop for “something flat and decorative.”
NOTE: This event has been rescheduled to Friday, November 22 at 6 pm at the Rapha HQ (1915 NW Kearney St)
Christopher Igleheart, a veteran frame builder who moved from Wenham, Massachusetts to Portland in 2012, was involved in a collision with a motor vehicle on Tuesday afternoon. Igleheart remains in the hospital with a serious knee injury while he awaits word on whether or not it will require surgery.
According to Igleheart’s friend and shop-mate Joseph Ahearne, the collision occurred on NE Wheeler Avenue adjacent to the Moda Center (formerly Rose Garden Arena). Igleheart was apparently riding southbound on Wheeler when someone driving a car turned right into a parking lot driveway and clipped his rear wheel. Igleheart sustained scrapes and bruises on his hands and his head in addition to his knee injury.
Igleheart opted to not have a medical response come to the scene and he didn’t get information from the other party. He rode himself back to his shop a few blocks away and was taken to the emergency room by Ahearne (aboard the front rack of one of this cycle-trucks of course). Ahearne said Igleheart nearly passed out from the pain but is now recovering well.