🚨 Please note: For the latest on the future of BikePortland, please read this update from founder and publisher Jonathan Maus.
Expect more signs like these popping up all over Oregon.(Photo © J. Maus) At their meeting in John Day this morning the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department Commission voted unanimously to to designate three new State Scenic Bikeway routes. That brings the total to four and the new routes join the existing Willamette Valley Scenic … Read more
A volunteer search party combs the woods near Yokum Road just outside Riddle.(Photo: Steve Durrant) With no significant leads and no trace of Mark Bosworth in five days of searching rural Douglas County, officials have shifted gears away from the large-scale, volunteer search effort. “The volunteers have been asked to go home,” shared volunteer Mickey … Read more
Jonathan Reed of Quixote Cycles is confident in his entry and can’t wait to see what others have created.(Photo © J. Maus) If you’re not excited about the Oregon Manifest Constructor’s Design Challenge yet, I have no other choice than to seriously question your love of bicycles. Some of the most accomplished bicycle minds in … Read more
A group of volunteers at the debriefing session after a full day of searching rural Douglas County for Mark Bosworth.(Photos: Steve Durrant)
Berm taking shape at Ventura Park Pump Track.(Photos: Tom Archer)
LeMond is still riding strong.(Photo: LeMond Fitness) Greg LeMond, the Nevada-born bike racer who endeared himself to millions as the first American to win the prestigious Tour de France, is set to make an appearance in Portland this Thursday (9/22). LeMond, who won the Tour in 1986, 1989 and 1990 and is now CEO of … Read more
A bus full of Portlanders organized by Cycle Oregon is aiding Douglas County authorities in the search for Mark Bosworth. (That’s Washington County Commissioner Dick Schouten in the lower left.)(Photo: Steve Durrant)
Small tacks continue to cause flat tires on a popular North Portland bike route.(Photos: Rob Story) When I reported about tacks in the bike lane on N. Vancouver Avenue last week, I hoped it was just an isolated incident. They could have even been — as one commenter suggested — debris from a construction site … Read more
Facebook profile photo of Jocelyn Young Jocelyn Young, a 24-year-old woman who graduated from University of Oregon and had lived in Portland has died following a hit-and-run collision in Pasadena, California early Sunday morning. According to the Pasadena Star News, Young fell off her bicycle while riding on Los Robles Avenue and was then run … Read more
Damage to a Sheriff’s patrol car after it was involved in a collision with another vehicle.(Photos: Washington County Sheriff’s Office) A collision in Aloha (about 11 miles west of downtown Portland) last night led to minor injuries and the arrest for 44-year-old Christopher Shostak. Shostak was operating his bicycle on a residential street when he … Read more
As of this Friday night, the rules of utility bike design might be changed forever. At least that’s the hope of the entrants and organizers of the Oregon Manifest. The Manifest has challenged a field of the best and brightest builders and designers in the country to create the “ultimate modern utility bike” and the … Read more
Cycle Oregon just announced that they will charter a bus tomorrow morning full of volunteers from Portland to step up search efforts for Mark Bosworth. Bosworth was volunteering with Cycle Oregon on their week-long ride when he disappeared late Friday night from the town of Riddle. A large search effort headquartered in Roseburg is being … Read more