Rivendell Bicycle Works now has a home in Portland. Rivelo is a new bike shop in inner southeast that’s set to fully open next month as a dealer of the famous brand’s bikes, bags, apparel and other accessories.
Long-time BikePortland friend and reader (and big Rivendell fan) Beth Hamon rolled by the shop yesterday and shared a few photos…
We’ve had three great job opportunities listed this week. Learn more about them via the links below…
Job Title *
Bike Mechanic / Rental wizard wanted
Company/Organization *
Everybody’s Bike Rentals & Tours
Your Email Address (for listing confirmation) * pdxbikerentals@Gmail.com
Job Description *
Everybody’s Bike Rentals & Tours is seeking a qualified, experienced seasonal mechanic who likes meeting and talking to lots and lots of folks visiting town from around the world. This is a good job for all you extroverts. Having the ability to be outgoing is mandatory for this job. The job is mostly customer service, fitting people on bikes and occasional bike maintenance.
Job Description/Responsibilities:
-Assess and repair bicycles
-Fit customers on bikes and orient them to the city and various attractions
-answer phone, paperwork, etc.
-Maintain a safe, clean, and well-organized work space
-Participate in day to day operations including opening and closing responsibilities
General Qualifications:
-you must be charming!
-1 year minimum bike shop experience
-Consistent attention to detail
-Ability to stay focused and multitask when things get busy
-Willingness to accept guidance and feedback related to job duties
-Effective verbal and written communication skills
-Ability to work in a collaborative environment
-Excellent problem solving skills
-Interest in 80s and 90s bikes, at least a little disdain for new bikes!
Wage:
Based on experience, but VERY competitive.
Schedule:
10-5pm 21-35hrs/week, including weekends. Work days vary, through to Nov 1.
How to Apply *
Please THOROUGHLY check out pdxbikerentals.com to see what we’re about and if this sounds good to you, please send a resume with references and explain why you’d like to work with us. Thanks!
Happy Memorial Day, Portland. In honor of the holiday, this is likely to be our only post of the day.
Here are the bike-related links from around the world that caught our eyes this week:
Now that’s a demo: A South Korean neighborhood banned cars for a month in order to see what would happen.
Bikes vs. stress: Bike commuters are 40 percent less stressed when they arrive at their destination than car or public transit commuters, a U.K. study of heart and breathing rates found.
“Sky garage”: A $560 million luxury skyscraper north of Miami will “incorporate the single-family-home garage concept” by hoisting people’s cars into the air so they can keep it next to their unit.
A man reportedly received life-threatening head injuries while biking on Southwest Barnes Road Friday afternoon, just west of the Washington/Multnomah County line on the street that is known, in Multnomah County, as Burnside.
Washington County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release late Friday that David Garcia, age 43, of Cedar Mill, was pedaling westbound on Barnes, possibly in or near the right turn lane, when an SUV turned left in front of him onto Southwest Miller Road.
How long is it supposed to take to drive across town?
Your answer to that question probably depends, more or less, on how long it took to do so when you moved to town.
That’s one of the ideas behind a comment BikePortland reader Carl Abbott added to Tuesday’s story about this week’s experimental redesign of Naito Parkway. Extrapolating a bit from the Naito situation, Carl speculated that as Portland’s buildings fill in and grow up, its streets might start filling up, too.
I’m in Seattle today joining the second leg of a study tour for a group from Indianapolis that’s visiting Portland and Seattle to study neighborhood greenways, the relatively low-cost, low-controversy bike infrastructure Portland imported from Vancouver BC and has built into a pretty solid network on its eastside grid.
This year, the city just south of Portland is getting a new light rail line and an excellent new bike path extension alongside McLoughlin Boulevard. The co-founders of the group Bike Milwaukie want to add another amenity: a public bike repair stand.
“Over the past four and a half years, we’ve gone on over 50 rides with hundreds of participants, and it’s been a lot of fun,” group co-leader Greg Bartz-Bowman explains in the Kickstarter video above. “The only thing what hasn’t been fun is that when we have that occasional breakdown, there’s nowhere in town to get your bike fixed.”
Backed by a slightly bleary-eyed team of Portland State University engineering students, community volunteers and city staffers, local street redesign group Better Block PDX brought its latest city-approved demo to the easternmost lanes of Naito Parkway at 6 a.m. Friday.
The temporary treatment will convert the bike lane and rightmost mixed-traffic lane alongside Waterfront Park to a multi-use path for northbound bike traffic and for people walking.
Welcome to your menu of weekend rides and events, lovingly brought to you by our friends at Hopworks Urban Brewery.
It’s quite a weekend ahead. The Naito Pilot Project opens up at rush-hour tomorrow and Filmed By Bike takes over the Hollywood area all weekend long. And for many Portlanders (including me!), Friday morning is the start of the grueling Oregon Outback, a 360+ mile ride (75% dirt) from Klamath Falls to the Columbia River.
Whatever is in your plans, have fun and enjoy the weekend.
Portland’s biggest trike-based urban cargo company is about to get bigger.
After eight years of failing to add housing units nearly as fast as new residents were arriving, Multnomah County nearly kept pace in 2014, according to Census estimates released Thursday.
The shortfall in new units since 2005 has led to the country’s worst chronic shortage of rental housing in the most desirable parts of Portland as residents have competed for the largely unchanging number of homes in the central city. That’s led to rocketing home prices and rents, forcing many to live in less bikeable areas further from the urban core.
In 2014, a wave of new apartments hit the market and the City of Portland has led the region in both single-family and multifamily housing starts. The population still grew faster than the number of housing units, the Census estimated, but by a much smaller margin.
