🚨 Please note: For the latest on the future of BikePortland, please read this update from founder and publisher Jonathan Maus.
Jacob Rathe(Photo: Pat Malach) Local racing standout Jacob Rathe has picked up an impressive stage win at the Rutas de America race in Uruguay. Rathe, 20, won the 143km stage in a time of 2:55:26. Pat Malach of Oregon Cycling Action says Rathe’s win at Rutas de America came against some of the top U23 … Read more
Still from helmet cam footage of light at Laurelwood and Scholls Ferry.(Photo: Seth Alford) Reader Seth Alford has been taking a lot of helmet cam video lately (his video of a TriMet bus rudely squeezing him out of a bike lane in Hillsdale garnered some attention). About a month ago, he waited over two minutes … Read more
Blumenauer at the congressional reception last night.(Photo: Still from video by Ted Sweeney) University of Oregon student Ted Sweeney attended his first National Bike Summit this year. Sweeney, an active advocate for bicycling on campus and in Eugene was standing just a few feet away from Congressman Earl Blumenauer at last night’s big reception following … Read more
PBOT map of potential 2012 projects. – Download PDF (6MB) –
Elliott and Daniella Crowder, owners of Bike Newport.(Photos © J. Maus) As tsunami waves begin to reach the Oregon Coast this morning, owners of the Bike Newport bike shop say they escaped the rising waters by sleeping in their shop overnight. Elliot and Daniella Crowder’s shop won a national award as a haven for Oregon … Read more
This week we feature a five month paid internship position where you help folks Discover Wilsonville. Additionally, we are re-posting one item from last week to clarify the details of a job offered by local women’s athletic apparel company, Team Estrogen. Check the links below for full job details and be sure to tell them … Read more
The bill would open up the Oregon market for personal car sharingservices like Getaround. HB 3149, a bill that would make it easier for personal car-sharing programs to start in Oregon, passed the House Transportation and Economic Development Committee by a vote of 7-1 yesterday. As we shared last fall, “peer-to-peer” car-sharing is a growing … Read more
[Publisher’s note: The report below was written by Carolyn Szczepanski, communications coordinator at the Alliance for Biking and Walking. It was published on their blog this morning and we’ve re-posted it below with Ms. Szczepanski’s permission. The story has been edited for brevity. — JM] NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Congressman Earl Blumenauer at … Read more
Funny, yes; but is it good or bad for business?(Photo: IFC) Bicycling and the culture that has sprung up around it in Portland is a major part of our city’s brand. People move here because of our bike-friendly reputation — whether they’re drawn to mundane things like our great bike parking and bikeway network or … Read more
Detail of map showing projects that would be funded by new tax district.– PDF of larger map – Next month, the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation hopes to bring a plan to City Council that would create a new “Transportation System Development Charge (TSDC) Overlay District.” TSDCs are taxes levied on real estate developers … Read more
Oregonians Robert Ping (L), Gerik Kransky, Jerry Norquist and Veronica Rinard during Capitol Hill lobbying day at the National Bike Summit last year.(Photo © J. Maus)
Jude Kirstein in her shop.(Photos © Russ Roca) Portlander Jude Kirstein, who has spent two years making Epic Wheel Works a successful wheel building business, has decided to change the name of her company after finding out that Specialized Bicycle Components would enforce its trademark rights based on their use of the “Epic” brand. Kirstein … Read more