It has been an amazing ride since I started this site back in August. Because of your participation, we’ve played an important role in the bike community and the best is yet to come! Here’s a few stats if you’re interested: BikePortland.org is currently ranked in the top 1% of all blogs worldwide. 34,000 people … Read more
Yesterday I got a call from one of my intrepid correspondents (thanks Dat!) that the downtown Bike Gallery has just received shipment of the very first Trek Portlands. Today I went down to investigate and sure enough, they’ve got two of them (a 52 and 54 cm) already in stock and they expect more to … Read more
Here’s my list of news and events I remember most from 2005: We broke the 10,000 barrier in average number of bike trips across the four main Willamette River bridges. Too many cyclists lost their lives or suffered serious injuries on Portland streets. At one point at the Multnomah County Bike Fair someone counted 500 … Read more
The Community Cycling Center has funding through the Oregon Dept. of Transportation for grants up to $5,000 for “innovative and creative” bike safety programs that “incorporate a strong educational element.” Applications are due Feb 23. For more information or to receive your application packet, contact Jen Robinson with your name, name of your agency/ organization, … Read more
In today’s Portland Tribune, Jacob Quinn Sanders profiles the four cyclists who were killed on the streets of Portland in 2005. …even in bike-mad Portland, it can be easy to forget those riders once had names, faces, friends and families. Aside from the memorial rides organized in their honor, there is little public accounting of … Read more
I’m a huge fan of bike polo. I played once this summer and it took about a week for my grin to wear off. Now I get word from Dabby that they’re running low on polo bikes. The problem is that they’re very hard on equipment and the bikes they use are modified specifically for … Read more
Brought to you bike Shift to Bikes. ANNOUNCEMENTS Filmed by Bike IV, a festival of bike-themed movies in April 2006, is calling for entries of bike-related film shorts of 8 minutes or less. Deadline for entries is March 15, 2006. Proceeds from Filmed by Bike IV will fund the Shift Multnomah County Bike Fair, a … Read more
Just a heads up that from now on I’ll be posting the Shift Bike Bulletin. The Bike Bulletin is the bi-monthly comprehensive listing of local bike events put together by Shift to Bikes. Besides wanting to keep you informed, I’m posting the Bulletin because in it’s current form (on an email listserv and a web … Read more
We just got back from the Loenhout GVA, and all our guys in the elite race finished it up. The course was spectacularly short and fast due to the cold (-1C = 30F) and dry conditions today. ‘Twas a 5min. lap, and we did 12 of ‘em, averaging I think over 20mph. There was a … Read more
Some of you may remember a comment from Joe Biel about the bike art documentary he’s working on. From the looks of this short teaser clip he just sent me, “Martinis in the Bike Lane” looks like a really solid effort and I look forward to seeing the whole thing. The short film will be … Read more
Last Sunday’s Christmas Zoobomb became tense when a motorist tried to pass the riders on a curvy downhill section of road. According to reports on the Zoobomb forum and Shift email list a gold Toyota Camry attempted to pass the Zoobombers on the left on a dangerous section of the road. When the car was … Read more
Portland resident and Sellwood Cycle Repair employee Erik Tonkin is racing his heart out on the World Cup cyclocross circuit. His candid reports reveal how tough the racing is: Oh my god that was hard. Thankfully, even the top guys consider it one of the toughest. The sand is long and deep and then wet … Read more