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Sean Martin outside the Chrome store in downtown Portland.(Photo © Alex Milan Tracy) If you think urban fixed-gear riding was just some fad that has been played out, you couldn’t be more wrong. In cities all over America, urban fixed gear riding has gone from a death-defying, extreme sport dominated by messengers, to a more … Read more
Before 2002, this was just another outdoorsy city on the West Coast; after 2008, it’s been just one more mid-size metro area with an increasingly lively central city. But something strange and wonderful happened in between.
Detail from a PBOT poster about the Williams project.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) As we reported last March, the City of Portland has about $1.5 million to spend on the North Williams Traffic Safey & Operations project. That’s enough money to build all recommendations put forward by the project’s Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) in April 2012. … Read more
Wider is better. (Note the old bike lane stripe that has been scraped off.)(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) PBOT is nearly finished with a project to improve bicycling conditions on the NW Broadway ramp south of the Broadway Bridge. The $30,000 project is expected to be finished by tonight but most of the new striping was … Read more
KATU jokes in their headline, but this is no laughing matter. The carnage on Portland’s streets show no signs of letting up. In the past 24 hours alone, three people failing to control their cars has led to serious injuries and significant property damage. At about 8:15 pm last night, the Portland Police reported that … Read more
Every bike shop has an owner. But in a city with 69 bike shops, a few of them have authors.
Mike Cobb at a recent cargo bike roll call event.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Mike Cobb, well-known to many in the Portland community for his bicycling prowess, mechanical skills, and enthusiasm for cargo bikes (he wrote a dispatch from Seattle’s Disaster Relief Trails for us last month), had an unfortunate incident in the northeast Portland parking … Read more
Robin Moore.(Photo: Aaron Araki) 28-year former Portland resident Robin Moore burst onto the bike world with his role as MC SpandX in the hilarious spoof rap video “Performance“. The video was shot entirely in Portland and when it debuted in 2009 it became a viral hit. So far it has nearly 2.3 million views on … Read more
Sunday Streets Alive website. This article was written by our Vancouver contributor Madeleine von Laue. Vancouver residents won’t have to cross the I-5 bridge to participate in a Sunday Parkways event this summer, nor will runners or skaters or anyone else; the City of Vancouver’s very own first Sunday Streets Alive will spin to life … Read more
Splat! Pie jousting was a big hit with the kids at MCBF.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Pedalpalooza came to a close on Saturday at the Multnomah County Bike Fair. The event was held adjacent to the now-defunct Washington High School at SE 12th and Alder. While it seemed to lack the crowds and energy of past … Read more
In Japan, a brazen bike thief has been spotted listing bikes for sale online before he or she even steals them – and more of the world’s bike news this week.
The Washington Legislature has failed to pass any funding for the Columbia River Crossing highway expansion project.(Graphic: CRC project rendering)