Photos by Alex Milan Tracy. In the future, the 2013 World Naked Bike Ride will be remembered as the year things got sophisticated. Thanks to a permit to gather in the South Park Blocks and a deal with the Portland Art Museum to allow entrance to their bike-design exhibit Cyclepedia for the unique fee of … Read more
It’s safe to say Portland’s never seen a World Naked Bike Ride quite like this.
2) Nobody cares that your body is not perfect. Nobody’s body is perfect, so for one night, everybody’s body gets to be perfect.
Where, exactly, do sharrows belong?(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Update: See below for a few other examples of graphics that try to answer this question. There’s an interesting, useful bit of transportation wonkery in The Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s “Blueprint for World-Class Cycling” that came out this week: a visual guide to which sort of streets should … Read more
The inimitable Phil Sano.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) For some people, the connection between bikes and sexuality starts and ends with 5,000 nude bodies at this Saturday’s World Naked Bike Ride. For seven years, the man who created Bike Smut has been proving that those people aren’t thinking nearly big enough. Next Wednesday, Portland-based porn pro … Read more
For Portland bike lovers, the Pedalpalooza Kickoff Parade is the gathering of the tribes, and also the time to start planning your month.
At an open house Tuesday night about rethinking the street, there was only one type of bike infrastructure on the menu: White paint.
As of Thursday morning, the weather forecast for Saturday night is 68 degrees with zero chance of rain.
With 257 different bike rides and events in the next 23 days, it’s geospacially impossible to keep up with the world’s best bike festival. But here are some places to start.
A three-year-old experiment that distributes unclaimed bikes to low-income kids in Milwaukie has taken root, with the help of Milwaukie’s police and Sellwood shop The Bike Commuter.
The state’s bike advocacy group chose 16 “almost metaphorical” projects in four categories. Oregon’s leading bike advocacy group has named sixteen projects in four categories as their top bike infrastructure priorities for the region. Released Tuesday, it’s the first update of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance‘s “Blueprint for World-Class Bicycling” since 2005, when the organization named … Read more
The driver of a pickup truck whose illegal right turn led to a bike/truck crash last Wednesday has been cited for two traffic violations typically associated with $695 in fines, Portland police said Tuesday.