Housekeeping

Please Support Our Work We cannot survive without your financial support Visit our Support Page 17 years ago today I wrote the first post on what would become BikePortland. It was such an innocent post, and written without a clue that I would devote much of my life to this work for the next 17 … Read more

Hi friends and readers. Because I just got back to my desk after nine days away, I won’t be sharing a Monday Roundup this week. Sorry about that. This column will return next week. But since I have you on the phone… How are you? I feel like we don’t talk as much as we … Read more

Hello friends (and everyone else too). You’ve probably noticed things have been pretty quiet around here. That’s because I just got back from visiting family in California for Christmas, and unlike years past I decided to leave my computer in my bag the entire time. I know it’s New Year’s Eve and most of you … Read more

[Publisher’s note: Thank you BikePortland subscribers and financial supporters for making this hire possible! If you read and appreciate this site, please consider supporting us. We are building a better news operation and we need your help to do it. BikePortland.org/support. – Jonathan] Hi! My name is Taylor Griggs and I’m excited to introduce myself … Read more

16 years ago today we published our first post as BikePortland (if you see posts before that it’s because I’d been posting since mid-April of that same year for The Oregonian before launching my own thing here). About 16,000 Front Page posts and 500,000 comments later here we are, still serving this community with news, … Read more

On Saturday, Tony Jordan, a parking reform advocate I’ve known and respected for years and who’s written stories for BikePortland, posted something on Twitter about a BikePortland comment. The conversations and concerns triggered by his Tweet (which I’m still responding to, three days later) have made me think deeply about our comment section. Here’s Tony’s … Read more

Hi everyone. A quick break from our regularly scheduled programming to share some housekeeping news: We’ve just made a major upgrade to our commenting system. You know how much we appreciate and value your voices, so this is super important upgrade for us. Our current system needed to go. After 474,185 comments in the past … Read more

A new era of BikePortland has begun… Please be a part of it!

If you’re just clicking over from the Bike Fun blog on Oregonlive.com…welcome! I hope you like the new look (and name) of my blog. I’ve still got a lot of work to do to make this a valuable resource for the Portland bike community, so I hope you’ll be patient while I tweak things around. … Read more