EnSelle ‘The Road Bike Shop’ to close after 16 years in business
EnSelle, a road bike shop in southwest Portland, will close its doors at the end of this year.
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Holiday profile: David Lewis of Veteran Bicycle Co. is trying to invent a cheaper bike
The most audacious bike-design entrepreneur in Portland is more focused on everything except the frame.
Gladys Bikes and Sweetpea Bicycles ink new sales partnership
Two women-focused Portland bike companies — custom builder Sweetpea Bicycles and Gladys Bikes bike shop — have formed a partnership to do more of what they do, only better. Check out the press release below for more details… Sweetpea Bicycles and Gladys Bikes Join Forces to Get More Women on Bikes
Smith Optics to move 35 employees to new Portland office
A significant chunk of global eyewear brand Smith Optics will move to Portland early next year. The news was confirmed today via a story posted this afternoon in the Idaho Mountain Express newspaper. Here’s more from the IME: Safilo [Smith’s parent company] CEO Luisa Delgado came to Ketchum from Italy this week to discuss the … Read more
Foster Road businesses celebrate 50s Bikeway completion
Here’s something that counters a popular narrative in this town that businesses don’t support cycling: the Foster Area Business Association (FABA) is hosting a mixer tonight to celebrate the completion of the City of Portland’s 50s Bikeway project.
Bike shop spreads the cyclocross gospel with ‘CX Curious’ workshops
The CX Curious crowd at Saturday’s CrossCrusade opener at Alpenrose Dairy included Noel Mickelberry, Kyla Yeoman, Lindsay Walker, Katie Popoff, Kathy Lombardi, Claudia Martinez, Melia Tichenor, Nate Semm, Julia Himmelstein and Allan Rudwick.(Photos courtesy Gladys Bikes) Gladys Bikes, the woman-centric bike shop on Northeast Alberta Street, keeps coming up with interesting new projects that prove … Read more
Industry Roundup: Ecospeed, Vanilla, Renovo, Circa, North St and some Zen
North St. Bags owner Curtis Williams hopes to take out a “community sourced to keep his expansion on track.(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland) I’ve been gathering news tidbits about local bike companies for several weeks now and since today is National Manufacturing Day, I decided it was time to put it all together into a roundup. … Read more
Portland-based ‘Cylo’ aims for first production run
Eric Duvauchelle on his Cylo One prototype. The base model, which will be built in Portland, will retail for $1,900.(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland) A new Portland-based bike brand is trying to presell its first model in order to take a crucial next step in its evolution. Eric Duvauchelle, co-founder of Cylo, has self-funded his company … Read more
Local bike shops as important as infrastructure?
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
East of 82nd, NW Pro Gear fills the bike shop void
Last month, Southeast Portland’s bike shop desert got a little less dry.
Sunset Cycles in Bethany to close its doors at end of October
After 11 years in business, Sunset Cycles will close its doors.
Portland’s Circa Cycles wants to bring $1500 custom bicycles to the mainstream
A Portland startup is marrying the 1980s concept of “screwed and glued” modular frames with modern computer machining to dramatically cut the price of a custom handmade bike.