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Man on bike dies after road rage incident involving prominent politician in Ontario, Canada

A tragic road rage story has been making international headlines. On Monday evening in Ontario, Canada, a bike messenger has died after a road rage altercation with a prominent political figure. Witnesses describe seeing a black convertible going 90 kilometers an hour the wrong way down a street in an upscale Toronto shopping district with … Read more


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August 2009 site stats and top stories

Here are BikePortland’s traffic stats from the month of August, 2009. The most popular post of the month was the locally produced video entitled ‘Performance’ which, according to Youtube.com has garnered nearly three quarters of a million YouTube views in the three weeks since its initial publication on that site. Following in popularity on BikePortland … Read more


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Raise money for watershed while biking the Springwater

The Bicycle Transportation Alliance isn’t the only local non-profit encouraging Portlanders to go by bike in the month of September. The BTA’s Bike Commute Challenge started yesterday, but so did the Springwater Cycle Stroll. The Cycle Stroll is organized by the Johnson Creek Watershed Council. The event allows registered participants to track their miles ridden … Read more


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Bike parking on the new Mall: The good, the bad, and the confusing

Some folks are confused about these rack-shaped objects on the new transit mall.(Photos: Victoria Gilbert) Here’s a bit of good, bad, and confusing news about bike parking on TriMet’s transit mall in downtown Portland (we’ll get to the issue of actually riding on it in a separate story). Back in January, we reported on how … Read more