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If it’s legit and not a set-up, this is a pretty amazing stunt. Not cool at all. But still sort of amazing…
Posted by Josh Navarro @ajourneythroughtime. Judging by all the comments it has received on Instagram — many of them are very upset by the stunt — I’m not sure how long he’ll keep it up.
Here are the bike-related links from around the world that caught our eyes this week:
“Bicycle Blitzkrieg”: A Tampa woman walking her bike home after cooking for an elderly neighbor, carrying a plate of fish and grits in her other hand, got a $51 ticket for not having a bike light. A 54-year-old man’s bike was confiscated because he couldn’t produce a receipt to prove it was his. A 56-year-old man was handcuffed for towing a borrowed lawnmower through a stop sign on his bike. They’re all part of the Tampa police department’s effort to “head off crime before it happens” by issuing thousands of bicycle-related infractions to black people.
Bikes vs. bombs: After World War II, London teens turned bomb-site ruins into low-rent velodromes. One man who’s still in the saddle tells the story.
Job Title
Sales Associate
Company/Organization
Rack Attack Car Rack & Hitch Centers
Job Description
Rack Attack, North America’s premier automotive rack retail store, is seeking motivated individuals for full time and part time employment at our 2 locations in Downtown and Eastside Portland.
Responsibilities will be centred around the onsite sale and installation of Yakima, Thule, and other automotive roof rack and hitch systems. It will also at times include the processing, packaging, and shipping of on-line orders.
Applicants that are outdoor minded, mechanically inclined, detail oriented, ability to multi-task and retail sales experience are preferred, but not required assets. We offer a friendly work environment and opportunities for advancement from within.
This position is ideal for bike mechanics and university students.
For more information about us, visit www.rackattack.com.
How to Apply
Please email your resume to employment@rackattack.com as a Word or PDF attachment.
One of the best things I did when I started writing for BikePortland a couple years ago was to use Tweetdeck to create a live feed of people in the Portland area who use the word “bike” or “bicycle” on their social media.
A day like Saturday really lights that list up. Here’s a sampling, roughly in chronological order through the day.
Spending a week writing and thinking a lot about frustrating news will wear you down. So by 7 p.m. on Friday night, I thought the last thing I wanted to do was ride downtown for the evening ride I’d said I’d attend.
In other words, I came pretty close to a pretty dumb decision.
Friday night was one of the first of something terrific: a new series of rides organized by Nathan Jones, owner of the 18-month-old Foster Road shop Ride Yr Bike and the founder of the Trans Am Bike Race.
Biking has been a big part of the brand identity that has made Portland a come-from-behind economic success over the last 20 years.
But now that prosperity has arrived, at least for some Portlanders, where’s the love? And if it’s missing, do people who function as “props” in Portland’s triumphant narrative have an option to pull back?
That’s the question that BikePortland reader Kevin explored in a comment beneath our post Tuesday about a pair of Portlanders’ high-profile campaign to rescind the city’s “platinum” status with the League of American Bicyclists.
Here’s how Kevin put it, with a bit of emphasis added:
Welcome to your menu of weekend rides and events, lovingly brought to you by our friends at Hopworks Urban Brewery.
I hope you’re ready to ride because the forecast for this weekend looks spectacular. It’ll start off with what looks like a big new night ride this Friday, joining up with the Dropouts and rolling into the night.
Whatever you do, relax and enjoy a few days off. We’ve had some intense and important conversations here lately and we need you to be fresh and ready for Monday.
Slow-moving, prosperous and desirable arterial streets are nothing new; they’re just a return to the traditional ideas of our great-grandparents.
And here in Portland, a citywide goal to take public responsibility for traffic fatalities isn’t new, either. In the 1930s, as they felt their city changing fast, our great-grandparents’ generation responded with what became a nationally-known campaign that was strikingly similar to Vision Zero or the Dutch Stop de Kindermoord movement of the 1970s.
We’ve had seven great job opportunities listed this week. Learn more about them via the links below…
