The Cross Crusade might be over but that’s not the only cross series in town. Veloshop kicked off the season back in September and they’ll bring it to an official close this Sunday (Dec. 18th) at Blue Lake Park. This is the last of three Veloshop races this year and they’ve all been great successes … Read more
Portland bikers, consider yourselves spoiled with bike fun. Here is a round-up of rides happening on the first day of 2006 (if you know of others, feel free to add them to the comments):
Peter Loewi is a regular BikePortland.org reader, PDOT intern, and dedicated Veloshop Team member (he once had his mouth wired in pink to show his team colors!). When he noticed a recent NY Times Travel article on Portland made no mention of bikes he decided to give them a piece of his mind…and they printed … Read more
The LDTMA (Lloyd District Transportation Management Association) recently held an open forum to discuss bike issues in the Lloyd District area. They invited several NE Precinct police officers and traffic division commander Bill Sinnott. During the Q&A session, someone asked to see a list of the most common bicycle infractions and the cost for each … Read more
I’m down in Orange County visiting family and I won’t be back until Dec. 29th. I’ve only been here about 5 days now, but I already miss Portland. We’ve rented a mini-van and I’ve done more driving in the past few days than I have for the past 6 months. Everywhere I look there are … Read more
Sam Adams has just posted a survey that allows you to weigh in on how you think the city’s transportation money should be spent. This is an exciting opportunity to cast your vote and let the folks at City Hall know how strongly you feel about the key role of bicycle access in the future … Read more
by Jessica Roberts, Metro Area Advocate for the BTA I attended last night’s budget forum, hosted by Commissioner Sam Adams. I’m pleased to say that bicycling was well represented. Over 30% of participants arrived by bike, and it was clear through the course of the evening that this was a crowd that loves riding a … Read more
Chris Smith is full of great ideas lately. Earlier this month, he started working with the folks at KBOO radio to offer past and future episodes of the popular KBOO Bike Show as MP3s for our listening enjoyment. Now he’s gone and put together an aggregate site called “The Portland Bike Channel“.
There’s another new bike lane stencil that just hit Portland streets. This one was made to commemorate the University of Portland women’s soccer team on their NCAA championship victory. It lives on N. Willamette Blvd. I ride by there all the time so I look forward to introducing myself. [Thanks to Roger Geller for sending … Read more
Some of you may remember that Joe Biel (founder of Microcosm Publishing) is working on a documentary about bike art. He was particularly interested in Portland’s whimsical bike lane characters. I just heard from Joe that after a few meetings and phone calls he was given the opportunity to design and lay out his very … Read more
A few months ago I was smitten with PDX airport because of their new and vastly improved bike access. After reading my post, several folks were inspired to ride to the airport to take advantage of the new bike lane and enclosed long-term bike parking facility. However now all that has changed. A few riders … Read more
The Pedalpalooza craziness has already begun…and it’s only December. Check out the new interactive feature over on the Shift website. You can make the bike fun action figures say anything you want.