The New Columbia skills park directly servesthe development’s 2500 residents.(Photo: Community Cycling Center) The residents of North Portland’s public, mixed-income housing development New Columbia now have one of the city’s handful of bike skills parks in their backyard. Enhanced with paths, wood ramps, a berm and a bicycle teeter-totter, the park at the corner of … Read more
Zed Bailey doesn’t know if anyone will show up to Velo Cult tonight to talk about the future of bike fun in Portland. He doesn’t know because he didn’t put the event on Facebook.
As many people seemed to notice, last week was particularly thick with serious bike-related collisions. We’re continuing to track relevant parts of several, so here’s the latest.
Bike Milwaukie, a community group in Portland’s inner southern suburb, has been holding 12 to 13 rides a year since it formed in 2011 and is gearing up for a minor milestone: they’ll be joined this Sunday by Milwaukie Mayor Jeremy Ferguson.
Brian Willson, a widely known veteran of the Vietnam War and the movement to end it, is on the mend after a crash at the corner of Southeast 51st Avenue and Clinton, not far from his home.
After six years of promising to fix one of the most persistent chinks in downtown’s bike lane grid, city planners have a new plan to link the bike lanes north and south of the Steel Bridge on the Naito Parkway.
A year-old service that lets you rent bikes from ordinary people has new ownership, a new iPhone app and quite a few bikes for rent in Portland.
TriMet says its drivers are temporarily emphasizing a longstanding rule that bikes loaded on its bus racks ares supposed to be stripped of bulky accessories before boarding.
The UK is considering recommending that people on bikes prevent pollution exposure by wearing “cycle masks” over their mouths. Or maybe, some point out, people on bikes could be physically separated from tailpipes.
Portland’s 30-mile catastrophe-themed urban bike competition returned for a second year Saturday with a splash and a lot of grunts.
The garbage truck that hit the man is at right.(Photo courtesy Jason Lee.) A man riding across a McLoughlin Boulevard crosswalk on his bike was “traumatically injured” Friday morning when a man in a garbage truck turned left on a green light and the two collided in the middle of the crosswalk, two witnesses said. … Read more
A third-party event vendor whose workers illegally parked their truck in the middle of a nearby bike lane has lost its relationship with a prominent Portland hotel.