At long last TriMet says they’ll replace the old footbridge that used to cross over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks between Southeast Gideon and Brooklyn/16th streets.
At long last, TriMet says a new Gideon Street-Brooklyn bridge is coming
Year: 2017
Job: Full Time Painter – Argonaut Cycles
Job Title *
Full Time Painter
Company/Organization *
Argonaut Cycles
Job Description *
Argonaut Cycles is looking for an experience painter to lead their expanding bicycle frame painting and finishing capabilities.
Required Experience:
Use of two and three stage paint process: basecoat application, clearcoat application, and polishing.
Paint mask design and the use of an automated plotting machine.
Paint mask application and removal.
Surface preparation on a variety of substrates including composites.
Overall Job Description:
Execute Argonaut paint designs on in-house fabricated Argonaut custom bicycle frames.
Refine current Argonaut paint SOP’s in order to drive efficiency.
Build and maintain a digital representation of paint inventory.
Develop trainable application systems in order to train others and increase output.
Compensation will be based on prior experience. All Argonaut full time employees have health coverage and access to retirement benefits.
How to Apply *
contact ben@argonautcycles.com
New city grant program will fund livable streets projects
(Photo of heart painting by Ted Timmons, others by Jonathan Maus)
Been itching to do an intersection painting in your neighborhood? Or how about a bike parking corral with a few creative flourishes?
Faster buses, better biking: Weigh in on TriMet’s Division Transit project
Remember Metro and TriMet’s attempt to build a bus rapid transit line between downtown Portland and Gresham?
Three years ago the agencies embarked on an ambitious plan to route super-fast buses along SE Powell Blvd.
Unfortunately, a reluctance to constrain existing auto capacity on busy 82nd Avenue — a key link in the route — led to projected bus travel times that fell below federal requirements. In other words, their “bus rapid transit” wasn’t rapid enough.
The new plan agreed to by both agencies and a steering committee is to make significant bus upgrades and route a new, “high capacity transit” line on Division Street. If funding plans materialize as expected (they’re hoping to get into President Trump’s infrastructure budget), the $175 million project is scheduled to open in 2021 and will run 14 miles from Northwest Portland to the Gresham Transit Center/Mt. Hood Community College.
City seeks input on plan for bike lanes on inner Morrison and Belmont
Looking to improve safety and bicycle network connectivity in the central eastside, the Portland Bureau of Transportation is proposing a new protected bike lane on Southeast Morrison between Grand and 11th and a new bike lane on Belmont between Grand and 7th.
Morrison, which runs westbound toward the Willamette River, is designed as a couplet with eastbound Belmont. But for some strange reason (anyone know the history here?), there’s one eastbound lane on Morrison for the six blocks between Grand and 11th.
In a notice to nearby residents and business owners sent out earlier this month, PBOT asked for feedback for a new configuration that would shift the striping on Morrison, remove this eastbound lane, and add a protected bike lane. In addition, the project would re-stripe Belmont from Grand to 7th to add an eastbound bike lane.
Job: Bike Mechanic – Bike Gallery
Job Title *
Bike Mechanic
Company/Organization *
Bike Gallery
Job Description *
The Bike Gallery is hiring now at all of our stores in Portland, Clackamas, Beaverton & Lake Oswego for experience bike mechanics and bike builders. We have both FT & PT positions available.
Bike mechanics represent the link between customers and our service department. Being able to comfortably interact with customers is a basic expectation of all service personnel. This includes being able to respond to telephone inquiries, and customers in the store who have questions, want to buy parts, drop off a bike for service, or pick up a completed service job. When not responding to customer needs, technicians will spend the balance of their shift building or repairing bicycles, installing parts, or calling customers who have completed repairs waiting to be picked up. Service technicians must be highly skilled in the maintenance and repair of a wide variety of bicycle makes, models, and component parts. It is also an expectation that service technicians will keep current with new technology and changes in equipment design.
Qualifications:
– prior shop experience preferred
– ability to diagnose and service a wide range of performance complaints for a wide range of equipment types
– ability to complete a bicycle assembly for any product carried, to the established quality standard, and within the established time parameters for the product in question
– ability to identify and perform all aspects of replacement part installation to the established time and quality standards
– preferred UBI certification
– strong customer service skills
– ability to work as a part of a team
Both permanent and seasonal positions are available. Permanent full-time employees are offered a full benefit package that includes medical/dental/vision insurance & 401(k) with a match as well as Aflac and Flex spending accounts.
How to Apply *
Send resume to bgresumes@bikegallery.com
Product review: The Saltzman jersey from Anthm Collective
(Photos: James Buckroyd)
By our newest contributor, James Buckroyd.
In the world of product development, this is how it usually goes: You have a great idea, you make contact with an agent in Hong Kong or Mainland China and you start in a series of negotiations. After many long e-mail chains and late-night phone calls you begin to develop a product.
Unfortunately, what gets lost in the back-and-forths with the factory are the fine details that are essential to make the product shine in an ever-demanding consumer market. As you view sample after sample from your offshore agent, you realize things aren’t as perfect as you’d like them to be.
Rewind the tape. Enter Brian Anthony of Portland-based Anthm Collective.
“Basically we wanted gear to ride in that represented the values we believe in,” he shared with us recently. “So we went out and made it.”
First look: Buffered bike lanes on Lombard in north Portland
ODOT has updated Lombard from four standard lanes to two standard lanes, a left-turn lane, and bike lanes.
(Photos: J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos: J. Maus/BikePortland)
The Oregon Department of Transportation is doing their best to provide a place for people to ride bicycles on Lombard Street in north Portland.
Free bike tour will illuminate Vanport floods and historic Albina neighborhood
(Photo: Everybody’s Bike Rentals)
Ever wanted to go beyond the tired Portlandia stereotypes and really get to know where you live — warts and all? A bike tour being offered by Everybody’s Bike Rentals & Tours might be just what the doctor ordered.
The northeast Portland-based tour company will host a free “Beyond Portlandia” bike tour on Sunday, July 2nd.
Everybody’s Bike Rentals proprietor Dan Sloan tells us, “This tour is aimed at locals who might not know the history of their neighborhood whether they’ve lived here for 15 years or 3 months.”
Here’s more from the event description:
Job: Bike Mechanic – WashCo BTC Community Bike Center
Job Title *
Bike Mechanic
Company/Organization *
WashCo BTC Community Bike Center
Job Description *
Job Title: Bike Mechanic
Company: WashCo BTC Community Bike Center
The non-profit Washington County Bicycle Transportation Coalition (WashCo BTC) operates the Community Bike Center (CBC) in downtown Hillsboro to sell refurbished bikes and related parts and accessories, as well as full bike service. We’re seeking an experienced bike mechanic to manage our used bike inventory including:
• Receive donated bikes and assess them for refurbishment, sale ‘as is’, salvageable parts or recycling, and price bikes for retail sale
• Repair, replace parts, tune-up and clean donated bikes as needed, and safety check all refurbished bikes for retail inventory
• Service customer bikes when needed, at the direction of the Service Manager
• Assist with shop operations including customer sales support, directing volunteers, etc.
Requirements: The ideal candidate…
• Has two years professional (i.e., paid) bike mechanic experience and preferably accredited training
• Has bike shop experience quoting service jobs and using a Point of Sales terminal
• Has good communications and interpersonal skills
• Must pass a background check
This is a permanent, part- to full-time time position, 30-40 hours per week, depending on seasonal business and pays $11.25 per hour. Email your resume to info [at]washcobtc.org. Well-qualified local applicants will be contacted for an interview.
How to Apply *
Send your resume to Info@washcobtc.org
Once your resume has been reviewed you will be contacted.
Thank you
E-bike rental in Mosier opens up new riding options in the Gorge
(Photo: Laura O. Foster)
Story by Laura O. Foster, author of Columbia Gorge Getaways.
(Please see note about legality of e-bikes on Gorge paths at end of this story. – Jonathan)
“Everybody comes back loving it,” says Stephen Demosthenes, about his new e-bike rental business in Mosier.
Stephen’s the longtime owner of Route 30 Classics on the Historic Columbia River Highway (HCRH). In the multi-preneurial way of Northwesterners, he sells vintage Porsches and tee shirts, serves ice cream, espresso and Mosier-made sandwiches (in season), and now rents e-bikes.
Gateway Green’s bike park opens amid optimism, huge crowds
(Photos: J. Maus/BikePortland)
“Isn’t this fabulous?!”
— Amanda Fritz, Portland city commissioner
“Allow me to share a visual representation of our mission statement,” said Northwest Trail Alliance board member Joceyln Gaudi as she waved her hands toward a crowd of onlookers at the opening of Gateway Green on Saturday. “You are in it!”
Never again will off-road cycling advocates have to try and explain what they’re working for. Never again will they have to scour the Internet for stock images showing kids enjoying an urban mountain bike park. Now we have one of our own.
Gateway Green isn’t just the realization of an 11-year vision by community advocates, it’s the embodiment of the benefits urban off-road cycling can bring to Portland. It’s like the off-road version of Sunday Parkways.
And like Sunday Parkways, it appears to be an instant hit.