🚨 Please note: For the latest on the future of BikePortland, please read this update from founder and publisher Jonathan Maus.
The entry to SW Stark east of 4th Ave as seen from my office window.(Photos © J. Maus) When the Portland Mayor Sam Adams announced new buffered bike lanes coming to two downtown streets back in May of 2009 there was talk of “innovation” and making bikeways appealing to the “interested but concerned” demographic. Adams … Read more
Phil Sano outside the Clinton Street Theater last Friday.(Photo © J. Maus) Fresh off his “Bike Smut” world tour, filmmaker, nudity activist, and bike fun provocateur Phil Sano (a.k.a. “Reverend Phil”) is launching a new weekly show at the Clinton Street Theater. Here’s more from Sano via a press release sent out this morning: Bike … Read more
Well known local rider, bike advocate, and lawyer Mark Ginsberg collided with a MAX train while crossing E. Burnside in January 2011.(Photo © J. Maus) The intersection of E Burnside, 97th Ave, and the I-205 multi-use path seems to have a worse safety record than I first realized. It’s more dangerous than I realized when … Read more
2012 Alice Award Winners: Gail Achterman John Landolfe and Brett Dobson The von Borg Family Will Vanlue The Bicycle Transportation Alliance has just named their 2012 Alice B. Toeclips award winners… And one of them is BikePortland contributor Will Vanlue! Check the winners and excerpts from the BTA’s website about each of them below… Gail … Read more
They’re big in Europe (and Japan and…).(Photos © J. Maus) Continuing their strong growth since moving to Portland in 2003, Chris King Precision Components is set to receive one of the Mayor’s International Business Awards at a gala event on May 15th. At the event, the company will joined in recognition by other regional business … Read more
Did you know the new Trolley Trail south of Milwaukie is almost fully complete? In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a ton going on around our regional network of trails and multi-use paths* — a.k.a. “The Intertwine“. To help get the public up to speed and foster collaboration and momentum on the projects, Metro and … Read more
Susan Peithman with the Bicycle Transportation Alliance was one of the presenters.(Photos and story by Will Vanlue) The most interesting (in my opinion) and well-attended session I sat in on at the Oregon Active Transportation Summit focused on the work being done just over the hill from Portland in Washington County. The session covered a … Read more
Want to work with one of the nation’s leading bike non-profits? How about a mechanic position at a local shop? Check out the two opportunities below from our Job Listings this week… Program Director – Community Cycling Center Bicycle Mechanic – The Bike Commuter
The gap in this storm drain grate in downtown Portland is wider than a bike tire.(Photos: Jim Parsons) Super citizen activist Jim Parsons is at again. And this time, he’s mad about a bike-wheeling eating storm drain smack dab in the middle of downtown Portland and what he feels is a lack of action by … Read more
In a sign of the growing business opportunities that come with the renaissance of urban biking in America — and Portland’s reputation for being in the center of it — Woodinville, Washington-based Sportworks will launch its new “No Scratch” bike rack line at Bridgeport Brewpub in the Pearl District next month. Sportworks is already the … Read more
Gail Achterman’s husband Chuck McGinnis (L), his son Daniel McGinnis and daughter-in-law Cheryl McGinnis, plant a tree in her honor along the I-205 path.(Photos: Friends of Trees) Gail Achterman was honored over the weekend when friends, family, and colleagues planted more than a dozen oak trees in her memory along the I-205 path in SE … Read more
The flag (and the pain) returns Sunday.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) The Ronde PDX (a.k.a. De Ronde Van West Portlandia), Portland’s ultimate unsanctioned test of cycling sanity, is set for this Sunday. The ride is a leg-and-lung-busting tour of the steepest climbs in the West Hills. It was first held in 2007 and has become legendary. … Read more