From e-bikes to recumbents, Portland’s niche bike shops find success
Every bike shop has an owner. But in a city with 69 bike shops, a few of them have authors.
Michael Andersen (Contributor)
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The Monday Roundup: Pre-stolen bikes for sale (and more)
In Japan, a brazen bike thief has been spotted listing bikes for sale online before he or she even steals them – and more of the world’s bike news this week.
New ‘NW Skate Coalition’ wants skateboarding to follow biking’s path
A new group for people who get around by skateboard says it’s the turn of another vehicle. A smaller one.
New state law makes walking more welcome on narrow streets
A new state law signed Tuesday by Gov. John Kitzhaber allows Oregon cities to designate certain streets where, for the first time in decades, pedestrians won’t be required to yield the roadway to cars.
Forthcoming mobile app helps plan ‘bike + transit’ trips
A new, free iPhone app that lets you plan crosstown trips that combine transit, personal bicycle and bikeshare is preparing to launch in Portland, its creator says.
Are ‘bikes-vs-trucks’ battles fading? Advocates say so
The long, cold war between Portland’s bike/pedestrian advocates and its freight advocates might finally be thawing, people involved in recent talks say.
Look out! This bike packs an airhorn (video)
Billy Volpone, who works as an account manager at Jive Software, said he can get about five or six good blasts out of the air bottle before he needs to refill the system. It takes a standard tire pump.
94% of bike riders wait at red lights, study finds
A new study suggests that speeding in a car on local streets is at least six times more common than running a red light on a bike.
Downtown Portland bike theft reports plummeted 60% last year
Locking up is looking safer. (Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Here’s some great news for downtown Portland: it seems to be getting safer for parked bikes. Much safer. You might have seen recent media reports that Portland bike theft reports dipped 13 percent citywide last year, according to a new Portland Police Bureau report. But what … Read more
Portland’s pedal-powered pub crawls are becoming big business
Pedalounge owner John Boblett at the helm.(Photo © Michael Andersen/BikePortland) The sun was setting over the back parking lot of the Blitz Ladd when John Boblett flipped a switch on his custom aluminum dashboard and was immediately surrounded by soaring Columbian pop music and the hoots and hollers of 16 middle-aged professionals pedaling as fast … Read more
The Monday Roundup: Where to put your bike bell and more
Your summer of bike fun is far from done, but most of it from now on will involve more fabric. In the meantime, here’s the bike news that caught our attention this week.
Great tweets from the 2013 World Naked Bike Ride (NSFW)
Something new this year: we’re using Storify, an embeddable social media aggregator, to round up some of our favorite social media chatter about Saturday’s naked ride — including a few from other WNBRS around the world. Check below the fold for a selection of tweets, videos and photos from the event.