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Sean Chaney of Vertigo Cycles posted this sneak peek of his Design Challenge entry. The Constructor’s Design Challenge (part of Oregon Manifest) is coming this Friday. The event is an unprecedented opportunity to have the brightest minds in bike building put their skills and experience into building the Ultimate Transportation Bike. Each entry will be … Read more
The morning scene at Trillium Charter School in North Portland.(Photos © J. Maus)
“We are formulating a strong core of people who are in leadership positions in the bicycle community… to discuss how our concerns can be mitigated without simply closing the cemetery to bicycle traffic.” — David Noble, Executive Director of River View Cemetery David Noble, the executive director of River View Cemetery in Southwest Portland, has … Read more
[BikePortland managing editor Elly Blue is back from Interbike, but she’s still going through mountains of notes and photos. Below is a report of city/cargo/utility bikes she came across on the show floor. See the rest of our Interbike coverage here.] Raleigh’s new commuter bike.(Photos © Elly Blue) For an Interbike rookie, the main floor … Read more
[BikePortland intern Jonathan “J.R.” Reed contributed reporting to this story.] Production means more riding and less waiting.(Photo: Daniel Sharp Photography) Portland-based Sweetpea Bicycles is the latest local bike builder to offer a line of production bikes. Builder Natalie Ramsland says the move was made to make Sweetpeas more accessible, both in terms of price and … Read more
“Truth in Engineering” is the Audi motto. But their new ad stretches that slogan to the limit, promoting its new, supposedly fuel efficient vehicle, the A3 (it’s supposed to get 24mpg 34mpg).
I just came across the event poster for this year’s Singlespeed Cyclocross World Championships and felt it was worth sharing: Here’s the copy from the top in case you can’t read it: “Racers searching for their destiny… A tribe of spectators waiting for a hero… In a race battling to survive, they face Portland determined … Read more
Cycletrack and transit stop integration in Copenhagen.(Photo: Mikael Colville-Andersen) Beginning with a welcome reception at a downtown brewery tomorrow, Metro will host a European delegation as part of their Transatlantic Active Transportation Workshop. The four-day event is just the latest example of bicycle-related knowledge sharing between experts from America and Europe. Portland has been sending … Read more
The new wheel rack from TCB. A friend stopped by the office recently with an interesting new product by Portland-based company TCB Racks. It’s a product only racers are probably going to love and/or understand — a front rack that allows you to carry your precious race wheels on the way to a workout or … Read more
Sky Yaeger on a Swobo Otis.(Photo: Richard Masoner/Cyclelicious) We’re getting excited for the kickoff of the Oregon Manifest on Friday. One of the marquee events in the six-week bike culture blowout is the Constructor’s Design Challenge. We’ve already written a lot about it, but today we take a look at it from a different angle. … Read more
The Hawthorne during Bridge Pedal. To the NY Times, this is a solution to congestion on the Brooklyn Bridge.(Photo © J. Maus) A lot of bikes in the news this week — and plenty of other transportation news as well. – A smart and inspiring New York Times op-ed calls attention to the “war” created … Read more
Bob Wagner, ready to roll.(Photos © J. Maus) Bob Wagner has seen a lot from behind the windshield of his cab. For the 20-year veteran driver with Portland-based Radio Cab Company, dealing with the mix of downtown traffic is a daily task. And that task, according to Wagner, has gotten tougher in recent years with … Read more