Eric Lundgren

BikePortland Articles by Eric Lundgren

Bemer Pague; a defender of “cycle paths” over a century ago

Front Page, Portland Transportation History

April 17, 2015

[Editor’s note: This is our second column by Oregon bicycle historian Eric Lundgren. He last wrote about T. T. Geer, an Oregon Governor a century ago who was an early adopter of the bicycle for commuting and touring. This column is about the career of Bemer S. Pague, a weatherman, bicycle advocate, and lawyer from … Read more

Guest article: Oregon’s first bicycling governor: T.T. Geer, 1899-1903

Front Page, Portland Transportation History

September 6, 2016

By Eric Lundgren

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[Editor’s note: Eric Lundgren is Oregon’s preeminent bicycle historian. He is working on a book about Portland’s “golden age of cycling,” and has provided his historical perspective to this site in the past. He provided this article about our first bicycling governor in honor of the state’s Sesquicentennial this week.] Governor T.T. Geer(Image courtesy of … Read more

Eric Lundgren

BikePortland Articles by Eric Lundgren

Bemer Pague; a defender of “cycle paths” over a century ago

Guest article: Oregon’s first bicycling governor: T.T. Geer, 1899-1903

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