🚨 Please note: For the latest on the future of BikePortland, please read this update from founder and publisher Jonathan Maus.
For over eight years now, I’ve run BikePortland in pretty much the same way. Give or take a few years when I had the good fortune of working with Elly Blue (as managing editor) and Jonathan Reed (as my ad sales and business guy), this has been a solo operation. Over 15,000 posts, 211,000 comments, … Read more
A cargo bike mini-mart debuted at Buckman Farmer’s Market yesterday.(Photos: Portland Farmer’s Market) Portland’s love of cargo bikes just took another big step. And I mean big. The folks who run Portland Farmer’s Market debuted their new “Produce Pedaler” cargo bike at the Buckman market yesterday. The bike is an old-fashioned style, extra-large, classic Dutch … Read more
Blake Hicks is a fixture in Waterfront Park, where he can be seen nearly every day working on his tricks.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) For the past four years, southeast Portland resident Blake Hicks has focused his entire life on two things: Perfect his bike tricks and share them with the world. Now, after countless hours … Read more
Pete Jordan, a former Portland resident who lived in Amsterdam for the past eleven years, has written a book about the experience. In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist (Harper Perennial 2013) came out a few days ago and Jordan is back in Portland tonight for a reading. Here’s more about … Read more
Three great opportunities popped up on our Job Listings this past week. Check them out via the links below… Sales/Customer Svc Associate– Cyclepath Program Administrator – OTREC at Portland State University Bike Mechanic with Customer Service Skills – Pedal Bike Tours
“It was a tragic situation that we want to avoid this year. Greater awareness may help us do that.”— Louis Torres, ODOT Region 2 After a traffic collision claimed the life of a 65-year-old Camas man during the Reach the Beach ride last year, the Oregon Department of Transportation, the Oregon State Police (OSP), race … Read more
Mt. Hood could use more travel options.(Photo: ODOT) The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has released an online survey that seeks input to inform their Mt. Hood Multimodal Transportation Plan. As reported back in March, ODOT wants to make it easier and safer to bike, walk, and hop on a bus around Government Camp, Timberline … Read more
Welcome to the latest installment of People on Bikes. This morning I rolled over to North Vancouver Avenue to take a closer look at who’s riding. My location was just north of Shaver and a few blocks south of the Going Street neighborhood greenway. The bikeway on this section of Vancouver is pretty nice; even … Read more
Typical “flow” singletrack on the Beginner Trail inLebanon Hills.(Photo used with permission ofDakota County Parks, Minnesota) This article is written by Joshua Rebannack. Joshua contacted me after he read our recent coverage of mountain biking in Forest Park. As a way of helping Portland see a different vision for urban, off-road bicycling access, Joshua wanted … Read more
McKenzie Pass is now open to bikes only; but you’ve only got about 6-8 weeks to get up there before the cars and RVs return.(Photo OregonDOT/Flickr)
PSU’s Ian Stude inside a bike parking garage that serves the campus.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Portland State University is in some very elite company atop the national Bike Friendly University rankings announced last month by the League of American Bicyclists. PSU has improved from their “silver” award in 2011 and is now one of only … Read more
Dylan Rivera The Portland Bureau of Transportation has taken steps to fill a big hole in their communications department. As I shared last week, PBOT’s sole media relations staffers — Dan Anderson and Cheryl Kuck — both decided to move on. Today PBOT confirmed that they’ve hired Dylan Rivera and Diane Dulken as interim media … Read more