Bike to Earth Day MapView large version The Community Exchange Cycle Touring Club and Bike School is organizing the special BikeEarthDay portion of this year’s Earth Day celebration and they need your help to make it happen. They’re organizing guided bike rides from 16 different starting points that will converge on Woodlawn Park in northeast … Read more
Mark Ginsberg and Hazel Gross arrive at the State Capitol to testifyin support of the fixie bill. Senate Bill 729, which intends to clean up Oregon law regarding the brake requirement for bicycles and add an exception for fixed gear bicycles, took a step toward becoming law today. The bill received a hearing in front … Read more
There’s a very important call for action coming out of America’s leading bicycle advocacy organizations. The buzz of bad news began at the National Bike Summit where we learned that in 2006 states were required to return part of their transportation budgets to Congress. Many states chose to do this by drastically cutting cash from … Read more
BTA lobbyist Scott Bricker reports that the Velodrome Bill in front of state lawmakers will get a public hearing this Thursday (3/29).
On Friday, a friend of mine was riding into downtown via the Hawthorne Bridge. As he approached a red light at First Street he came to a stop, but his feet did not leave his pedals (this is known as a track stand).
At the end of April, local framebuilder and former bicycle messenger Ira Ryan will travel to Iowa for a grueling, 325 mile endurance race known as the Trans-Iowa.
Location of bike oasis Hawthorne Boulevard isn’t the only street in Portland that will get a much-anticipated “bike oasis” by the end of this summer. As part of their Sandy Boulevard Resurfacing and Streetscape project, PDOT will install one on the south side of Sandy Blvd, at the intersection of Sandy, Hancock, and 43rd. According … Read more
Two things have recently come to my attention that have got me thinking the answer to this question might just be, Yes! Road Bike Action Magazine says Oregon is a “racing paradise.” First, comes news that the premier issue of Road Bike Action magazine has a blurb about the Oregon racing scene that calls the … Read more
[This is the third installment of my “In the shop” series. Check out the first two on Joseph Ahearne and Tony Pereira.] Brett Flemming At the end of a cul-de-sac in a non-descript, Vancouver Washington subdivision, is the home and shop of Brett Flemming, an extraordinary machinist, inventor, and head mechanic for one of the … Read more
It’s been way too long since I last shared a stolen bike recovery story, so I was very pleased to get a call last week from local theft victim Michael Kloeppel. Back in December, Michael lost his entire fleet of beloved, high-end bikes when thieves hit his Woodstock home.
I hope you got the chance to take in the sun over the weekend. Did anyone make it out to the season’s first mountain bike race? I didn’t do much riding, but I went to OMSI with my daughter and spent some time soaking up the sun on the Eastbank Esplanade… along with a steady … Read more
Tori Bortman, bike mechanic.Image scanned from Oregonian Local bike mechanic and bike polo promoter Tori Bortman made her way onto a full-page photo in a recent special section of the Oregonian that profiled how 40 Portlanders make their living. You might remember Tori from a story I did on her last year. In addition to … Read more