4/25: Hello readers and friends. I'm still recovering from a surgery I had on 4/11, so I'm unable to attend events and do typical coverage. See this post for the latest update. I'll work as I can and I'm improving every day! Thanks for all your support 🙏. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
Bike shops are a key piece of biking’s future. But are we selling them short?(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland) Should advocates for bicycling consider retail bike shops as something more than just a place to hang out and buy stuff? What if we thought of them as being so imperative to the cycling revolution that we … Read more
Last month, Southeast Portland’s bike shop desert got a little less dry.
After 11 years in business, Sunset Cycles will close its doors.
This is what it looks like when people come together to marginalize a sexist comment from a bike shop employee.
Openings, closings (a few that might surprise you), expansions, and more! It’s another bike shop news roundup!
Two north Portland bike shops have decided they’d be better off promoting each other than competing.
Coventry Cycle Works owner Marilyn Hayward has filed bankruptcy, closed her Beaverton store, and faces an uncertain future. But there is hope and the community can play a role in how this turns out.
Cargo bike specialty shop Splendid Cycles is moving this month in order to expand and meeting strong demand.
Innovative idea from a local shop: Buy a saddle library card and check out as many saddles as you’d like before you buy.
A new bike company based in Detroit says they’ve cracked one of the toughest nuts in the bicycle industry: A full-fledged city bike made in the USA that retails for just $550.
Sign on an empty Cascade Cycling.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) By the end of this month, Portland’s long list of bike shops will be a little shorter. Cascade Cycling in north Portland has already closed its doors and the Bicycle Repair Collective in southeast plans to be closed by the end of this month. Both of … Read more
