The Bunny on a Bike Ride: A slideshow
Strong, chilly winds and nearly horizontal rain did little to dampen spirits at Sunday’s fifth annual Bunny on a Bike Ride.
Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)
BikePortland Articles by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)
Alice goes to Paris with inspiring style
Monsieur Timo Forsberg at the Alice Awards.View Gallery(Photos © J. Maus) Neary 800 bike advocates from all over Oregon spent Saturday night toasting each other’s accomplishments at the 13th annual Alice Awards and Auction held at the Oregon Convention Center. The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) hosts the event and they made sure there was enough … Read more
Free Legal Clinic for Bicyclists
A FREE VEHICLE LAW CLASS FOR BICYCLISTS When: Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. What: Class on Oregon’s vehicle laws from a bicyclist’s perspective with Bike Lawyer Ray Thomas. Where: Bicycle Transportation Alliance office at 233 NW 5th Ave. Cost: Free Contact: BTA at (503) 226-0676 to pre-register.
Weekend open thread: Share your bike fun
Juli and Danica Maus at the Bunny on a Bike Ride last year.(Photos © J. Maus) Easter weekend means different things to different people. Some folks go to church and some folks ride their bikes through the city dressed up like bunnies (and I’m sure some folks do both). But before the bunnies on bikes … Read more
Family-friendly Zoobomb
Want to take you kids Zoo-Bombing, but don’t like all the booze, and can’t stay out late on a school night? Well, come on up to the hill on Sundays, at 4:30 pm, and try out the new KID BOMB! MEET at the Veterans War Memorial in Washington Park. This Sunday, Easter, we will have … Read more
Mt. Hood bike race adds tough recreational ride to the schedule
This just in from the organizers of the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic… Mt Hood Cycling Classic Adds Two-Day “Tour de Hood” Recreational Ride Challenge
The only candidate truly running (and biking) for the job
[Via the Portland Mercury Blog] Check out City Council candidate Harold C Williams Two. He’s announced a run and bike ride he hopes will end with a job at City Hall:
Bureau of Maintenance outlines bike safety measures
The City of Portland’s Bureau of Maintenance is pushing forward to improve bike/truck safety.
Bikes at the Barack Obama rally
Bike parking at the Memorial Coliseum this morning.(Photo © J. Maus) Regrettably I won’t be inside the Barack Obama rally this morning. However, I did stop by the Coliseum on my way into the office to check out the bike parking situation. While there are definitely a lot of bikes parked illegally (a technicality, since … Read more
Obama backers scramble for bike parking
Cyclists in front of the Memorial Coliseum during a ride in 2006.(Photo © J. Maus) Volunteers working on Barack Obama’s event in Portland tomorrow at the Memorial Coliseum are scrambling to make sure they’ve got enough bike parking capacity. They’re well aware of what happened back in February when cyclists didn’t find enough parking at … Read more
New Portland bike map: Bigger, better, Beaverton
The Transportation Options division of PDOT has just printed up 30,000 new city bike maps (not to be confused with Metro’s “Bike There” map). I got a look at them first-hand today thanks to long-time Options staffer and mapping guru Jeff Smith. Jeff pointed out that for the first time ever, they’ve devoted a full … Read more
PDOT announces bike box press event; will unveil educational video
(Photo © J. Maus) Billing it as an, “event to celebrate Portland’s new ‘Green Space’,” the City of Portland’s Office of Transportation has just announced details of a press event next week that will draw attention to their first installation of a series of bike safety improvements around the city. The event will be held … Read more