🚨 Please note: For the latest on the future of BikePortland, please read this update from founder and publisher Jonathan Maus.
Mark Hoskins, co-owner of Upcycles.(Photos © J. Maus) On Sunday, May 16th, a long-unused garage door creaked open at 911 NE Dekum Street, revealing the newest business in the Woodlawn neighborhood, Upcycles. Based in a single car garage space that’s been lightly remodeled, Upcycles is co-owner Kai Druzdezel and Mark Hoskins’ entry into the growing … Read more
Local filmmaker Dan Kaufman has released a new video that takes viewers on a trip along the future location of the North Willamette River Greenway Trail. In the video (below), you’ll join the advocates from non-profit group npGreenway who are working towards making the trail — that will eventually connect the Eastbank Esplanade at the … Read more
A scene from 2009 BikeCraft. Some very super big news from BikePortland Headquarters… The sixth annual BikeCraft holiday gift bazaar is set for December 4th and 5th and our new venue this year is the Portland Design Works Mothership at 15 NE Hancock. We’re really excited about this year’s event. We’ve got a brand new … Read more
(Photo © J. Maus) This guest post is by Michael Andersen of Portland Afoot, a new “10-minute newsmagazine” and wiki about low-car life in Portland. Read more of his contributions to BikePortland here. Will the walking movement ever be as successful as the bike movement? Across the nation, biking advocates spent the last decade winning. … Read more
Elliott and Daniella Crowder, owners of Bike Newport.(Photos © J. Maus) Bike Newport, an independent bike shop based in Newport, Oregon has been named the winner of a 2010 National Bicycle Travel Award by the Adventure Cycling Association. Bike Newport has received the Sam Braxton Bike Shop Award for “incredible services and amenities that they … Read more
The Oregonian Editorial Board published a timely piece in today’s paper about the need for all of us who drive to take stock of our actions and do a better job looking out for people walking and biking on our roads. Here’s the opening: Hey, you. You need to have a “full and frank” conversation … Read more
If marketing campaigns and PSAs don’t curb distracted driving and we lack the resources to enforce laws, how will we ever learn that driving a multi-ton vehicle on a road shared with people walking and biking is an extremely serious responsibility? As we struggle to figure out why an “alarming” amount of people are being … Read more
Garmin-Transitions rider Tyler Farrar will be in Portland Sunday.(Photo: Garmin-Transition) Tyler Farrar, one of the fastest professional road racers in the world, will sit down with local journalist Heidi Swift for an interview event in Portland this Sunday. Farrar, a 26 year old native of Wenatchee, Washington, ascended to superstardom with a stellar 2010 campaign … Read more
Residents have vocally opposed the project with signs like these.(Photo: ProtectRedland.com) A scenic road and popular bike route between Oregon City and the Clackamas River could be severely impacted if a proposed, 139 acre development moves forward. Clackamas Compost Products, LLC filed a permit in August with Clackamas County in hopes of building a yard … Read more
Cross Crusade #6 Astoria – Chapter 2 from Burk Webb on Vimeo. Local racer and digital media pro Burk Webb is creating quite a following with his cyclocross videos. He has been sharing his work via the OBRA email list each week with the subject line of “(Race name) in convenient video form.”
This just in from our friend @mrbowers on Twitter, PBOT has striped a new bike lane on the eastern end of the Burnside Bridge prior to the crossing of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd (and I think further on along Burnside as well)… Looking east on Burnside, just west of MLK.(Photo: @mrbowers/Twitter)
The crowd watches the hi-vis fashion show.-Slideshow below-(Photos © J. Maus) TriMet’s Be Seen Be Safe event last Friday was a good success. There was a healthy turnout and being in Pioneer Square helped it attract even more attention (which is, after all, the whole point). I was happy to see two local TV stations … Read more