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OBRA Executive Director Kenji Sugahara in the office of U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley in March 2012.(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland) Welcome to the fourth installment in our series audio interviews with local cyclocross personalities. We’ve partnered with the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association (OBRA) to broadcast these interviews in advance of their 2013 Cyclocross Championship event coming … Read more
For months, the city has been mum about its ideas for how to spend $6.6 million for better biking and walking downtown. Let’s start the speculation now.
If you are looking for an awesome job in the apparel, retail or event ride industries, you have come to the right place. We’ve had three great opportunities posted to our Job Listings this week. Check out more details via the link below… Production Designer – Castelli US Sales Manager – Performance Bicycle Customer Service … Read more
Electrically assisted bikes are finally becoming common enough in the United States for people to start studying their many benefits.
Landscape crews at Rose City Golf Course in northeast Portland have blown leaves into the bike lane on NE Tillamook.(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland) It’s that time of year when the beauty of fall becomes a bane to bike riders. We marveled at the leaves last month and rejoiced while riding through them. But now that … Read more
Portland is nationally known as the city with the highest number of bike riders. But when it comes to making bikes, our reputation is about quality, not quantity.
Hooked.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Seeing people get hooked on a new type of cycling is one of the things that keeps cycling industry veterans going. And for some reason, cyclocross is especially good at reeling people in: Maybe it’s the challenging courses; the relaxed, non-competitive atmosphere; the support of family, friends and complete strangers; the … Read more
As we noted last week, the planning process for River View Natural Area is already well underway. This 146 acre parcel of land sandwiched between the Willamette River, Lewis & Clark College, River View Cemetery, and SW Palatine Hill Road, is being restored and re-imagined for public use and conservation. One of the uses being … Read more
Two group bike rides have been planned to celebrate the lives of Anna Dieter-Eckerdt and Abigail Robinson. The two girls, who were half-sisters, were playing in the leaves in the street outside their home in Forest Grove on October 20th when an 18-year old woman driving a car inadvertently swerved into them. Anna, 6, died … Read more
A rendering of the new micro-apartment buildingpermitted for Northwest Thurman near 23rd.(Image: Footprint Investments) The tiny house movement for apartment dwellers has arrived. Think 200 to 300 square feet, and a kitchen shared with five similar units. It’s a new milestone for the Portland area’s off-the-charts rental shortage, the third-tightest in the nation in the … Read more
With one week left in his course at Portland’s United Bicycle Institute, Muthanna sat down to talk about intersections, helmets, auto parking prices and other oddly familiar topics from a perspective I’d never heard before.
Two races to Portland’s north ended last night in interesting ways, for better or worse.