Month: April 2014

Light Green Salsa Fargo 3 2012

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Year: 2012
Brand: Salsa
Model: Fargo 3
Color:Light Green
Size:Large
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Stolen in Portland, OR 97203
Stolen:2014-04-14
Stolen From: Stormbreaker Brewing, Mississippi St
Neighborhood: Mississippi
Owner: Laura Simpson
OwnerEmail: laura(replace with at sign)dreadsandorchids.com
Reward: $500
Description: Shimano clipless pedals, truce design seat bag
Police record with: Portland PD
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Job: Cycling Event Support – Axiom Event Productions

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Job Title
Cycling Event Support Positions

Company/Organization
Axiom Event Productions

Job Description
Axiom Event Productions is a young and dynamic event production company based in Portland, Oregon. We work with clients to create successful, sustainable and memorable events.

Events that we help produce include Portland Sunday Parkways, Reach the Beach, Mississippi Street Fair, Bike MS, Ride to Defeat ALS, Harvest Century and others.

Each of our events requires the support of a number of people in part-time roles. We have one-day and recurring roles available.

For the 2014 cycling season, we are hiring for the following positions:

* Assistant Event Manager
* Site Coordinator
* SAG Driver
* Event Supply Driver
* Route Marking Support
* Event Supply Truck Load and Unload

How to Apply
Visit our Jobs page for more information on each position and instructions on how to apply.

AxiomEventProductions.com/Jobs

Job: Installation Tech – Rack Attack

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Job Title
Installation Tech

Company/Organization
Rack Attack

Job Description
Rack Attack is North America’s premier retailer of automotive, home storage, and bike parking rack solutions. We are experiencing significant growth, and have immediate openings for sales and installation associates who posses backgrounds in this specialized industry.

We cater to outdoor enthusiasts interested in activities such as skiing, snowboarding, cycling, mountain-biking, kayaking, surfing and camping. We offer a dynamic and diverse work environment, where our staff are involved not only in serving in-store customers, but also product installations, fulfillment of online orders, and participation in industry trade-shows.

Rack Attack offers competitive compensation, including sales performance bonuses and a flexible, enjoyable work environment. This is a part-time seasonal position, with possibilities for turning full-time. You can find out more about us at www.rackattack.com. This position is excellent for former bike mechanics or ski technicians. Preference will be given to candidates with prior Thule, Yakima or similar rack-related experience.

How to Apply
Please email employment@rackattack.com

Blue tomasso road bike 1984

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Year: 1984
Brand: tomasso
Model: road bike
Color:Blue
Size:56cm
Stolen in Portland, OR 97211
Stolen:2014-04-14
Stolen From: 28th and ne sumner
Neighborhood: inner NE portland
Owner: Sam Ruchti
OwnerEmail: samruchti(replace with at sign)gmail.com
Reward: 100$
Description: Blue and white Tomasso, bullhorn handle bars, black leather brooks seat, mostly campagnolo parts w/ some durace. The most notable thing is the frame where the rear wheel mounts is very rusty from a frame repair.(the rear dropout)
Police record with: portland pd
Police reference#: T14003782
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Auto traffic diversion still “on the table” for NE Rodney project

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NE Rodney near Fremont.

Whenever we report on a new neighborhood greenway project, the discussion always turns to diversion. That is, how will the project promote or prevent a higher volume of driving on a street specifically set aside by the Bureau of Transportation to have “low traffic volume and speed where bicycles, pedestrians and neighbors are given priority.”

Last week we shared PBOT’s first swing at plans to turn NE Rodney into just that sort of street. And sure enough, many readers asked about diversion.

Reza wrote;

“Can we get some diversion please? Rodney near Russell gets a lot of car traffic from motorists going to Wonder or other nearby establishments continually circling the block for on-street parking.”

Craig Harlow wrote;

“PBOT, please start installing diverters along ALL of the n’hood greenways.”

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Black Giant OCR 2 2005

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Year: 2005
Brand: Giant
Model: OCR 2
Color:Black
Size:large
Serial: G0502698
Stolen in Portland, OR 97229
Stolen:2014-04-15
Stolen From: The bike was stolen out of my garage at the Cedar Falls apartments near 118th and NW Lost Springs Terrace in NW Portland near Barnes Road.
Neighborhood: Northwest Portland near Barnes Road.
Owner: Michael Accuardi
OwnerEmail: maccuardi(AT)hotmail.com
Description: My bike is black with red accents. I re-wrapped the handle bars in red tape and replaced the tires with red Vredestein Fortezza Senso all weather tires.
Police record with: Beaverton Police department
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

PBOT Director Leah Treat on pricing auto use, bike-only streets, and more

PBOT Director Leah Treat

PBOT Director Leah Treat last summer.
(Photo J. Maus/BikePortland)

Nine months into her position as the Director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation, Leah Treat appears to be finally ready to spread her wings. We’ve noted here at BikePortland that for someone in charge of one of America’s marquee transportation systems, and someone who came to town with such fanfare, Treat has been relatively quiet in laying out any sort of vision for what she wants Portland streets to look like.

But now, finally, we have reason to believe that might be changing.

Next Tuesday (4/22), Treat is slated to speak at the Sentinel Hotel as part of a partnership between the City of Club of Portland and the Oregon Active Transportation Summit. With the title of her talk being, Portland Transportation: Today & Tomorrow, this event will likely be the first major policy speech of her tenure.

Given all this, we figured it was a good time to sit down for an interview to learn more about what she’s been thinking and how her leadership might impact cycling and local street culture in general. Due to sickness (mine) and scheduling, we ended up chatting on the phone yesterday and we only had limited time. Even so, we covered some good ground and you can read our conversation below…

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After host network failure, we’re back from the dead

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Our home page yesterday.

Just a quick note to say sorry for the site being down almost all of yesterday. We noticed the site stopped loading in the morning and it didn’t return until the wee hours of last night.

Here’s what happened: Our server host, Hostgator, experienced a network outage at one of their data centers that took down thousands of sites across the web (here are the latest details if you’re so inclined). It was their problem, which meant we couldn’t do anything but sit back, wait, and hope they could fix it quickly.

We’ve had our share of server issues over the past nine years; but things have stabilized a lot recently thanks to the help of our phenomenal system/server admin, Ryan Aslett. We have a dedicated server at Hostgator which we devote a fair amount of cash to each month, so we expect it to be reliable. While a tiny bit of downtime is just part of doing business on the web and is somewhat expected, an entire day is rare and quite disruptive.

Now we’ll sort things out with Hostgator and make sure everything is where it should be now that the lights are back on.

Before we get back to our regularly scheduled programming, we thought you’d enjoy the fun tweets some of our friends shared yesterday as the hours of outage dragged on and on and on…

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Does Oregon really need the NACTO guide?

The parking-protected bike lane near Portland
State University, from page 1-30 of ODOT’s
Bicycle and Pedestrian Design Guide.

On Monday, we highlighted a few bike ideas from around the country that Oregon might imitate, but so far hasn’t. One of them: formally endorsing the National Association of City Transportation Officials design guides.

But Jessica Horning, the transit and active transportation liaison for the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Region 1 (which contains the Portland metro area) replied to our question about this with a fair argument: Oregon’s in-house design guide is already really good.

Developed by practitioners in Portland and other cities around the country, the NACTO guides are a sort of professional Pinterest for human-friendly street designs such as protected bike lanes and traffic diverters. Images are well-annotated and informed by extensive research about safety and performance.

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