4/21: Hello readers and friends. I'm still recovering from a surgery I had on 4/11, so I'm unable to attend events and do typical coverage. I'll post as I can and should improve day-by-day. Thanks for all your support 🙏. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
The bike for the other 161 million? Yesterday I got my first, hands-on look at the fruits of Shimano’s new Coasting product initiative. Only three manufacturers (Raleigh, Trek and Giant) are licensed to make bikes with Coasting and I gave Trek’s offering, the “Lime Light” a closer look.
Click for larger view (157kb JPEG) After months of planning, residents of southwest Portland, led by super-citizen trail advocate and Alice Award nominee Don Baack, have come up with a map of a new southwest bike network. Baack, who leads the group Southwest Trails, has been working hard to garner neighborhood feedback and collaborate with … Read more
Crowds fill a party held in a regal Senate Office Building. The National Bike Summit may be over, but the work has just begun. Hundreds of advocates from around the country (430 to be exact) are now more energized, educated, and empowered than ever before to bring bikes into the mainstream consciousness of America.
River City ad in the Willamette Week announcing Commuter awards. Back in January, River City Bicycles announced a contest to find Portland’s “Commuter of the Year”. Owner David Guettler asked for nominations through ads in local weekly newspapers and according to the shop’s Event Manager Jason Bietz, over 60 people responded to the challenge, “They … Read more
A cheesy self-portrait in front of the Lincoln monument. Saturday was my last day in Washington D.C. and I spent it on a bike. When I arrived, it was 70 degrees, nearly perfect riding weather. Unfortunately things got worse as the week wore on. By the time Saturday rolled around, we’d seen rain, sleet, and … Read more
Dawn, two weeks prior to the crash. I’ve received some welcome news about the condition of Dawn Slawta. Dawn was seriously injured when her bicycle collided with a motor vehicle in northeast Portland on February 7th. The 25 year-old employee of Black Sheep Bakery in southeast Portland, struck her head (she was not wearing a … Read more
By Elly Blue Somewhere around 5% of trips in Portland are made by bicycle. And less than 1% of local transportation funding goes to bicycle infrastructure. Clearly bicycling is a mode of transportation that more than pays for itself. Meanwhile, cyclists’ taxes subsidize freeway and arterial projects that we don’t use much and that actually … Read more
On the waterfront I got home from DC late Saturday night. I had an invigorating ride home from the airport and woke up to warm, bright sunshine. I spent Sunday with my family and managed to get a few minutes on a bike. I took a quick spin around the block with Danica (my one … Read more
I was included in an email forward today that linked to an interesting device called a “bicycle barometer” recently installed in Italy. The story and photos were posted to a website that covers urban transport and mobility in Europe.
With 20 representatives, Oregon boasted the second largest contingent of attendees at the National Bike Summit (California led the way with 50). Below is a group portrait, followed by the names and affiliations of each person:
Shannon Bryant ofShimano Marketing At the closing ceremony of the National Bike Summit, the Shimano marketing duo of Shannon Bryant and David Lawrence hit the stage to tell the story of Coasting. Shimano embarked on this initiative five years ago when they teamed up with premier product design group IDEO. That was the start of … Read more
Wednesday was the inaugural session of the new Share the Road Safety Class. This new class can be completed in lieu of paying fines for certain bicycle, pedestrian and motor vehicle infractions. BikePortland reader Lev Tsypin, who runs Level Online Strategy, was in that first class and wrote up an account of his experiences (edited … Read more