4/25: Hello readers and friends. I'm still recovering from a surgery I had on 4/11, so I'm unable to attend events and do typical coverage. See this post for the latest update. I'll work as I can and I'm improving every day! Thanks for all your support 🙏. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
Portland’s bike share, Biketown, is Portland’s bike share system. It is backed with a $10 million Nike sponsor deal and launched with 1000 bikes by sobi, SocialBicycles, who run systems in Santa Monica California, Boise Idaho, Long Beach New York, Buffalo New York, and many others.
“I had never really looked into attending group rides. I never thought those rides were accessible to me.” – Cassie Wilson “Bike fun” is a colloquialism often used here in Portland to describe that thing where people get together to socialize and ride bikes, often with a theme in mind. Pedalpalooza (now in its third … Read more
Annual memberships aren’t everything. But for Portland bike share, this number is on the same trajectory as Seattle’s failed system.
The first few Biketown stations are now bolted in place.