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6/20: Hello readers and friends. I am having my second (of two) total knee replacement surgeries today so I'll be out of commission for a bit while I recover. Please be patient while I get back to full health. I hope to be back to posting as soon as I can. I look forward to getting back out there. 🙏. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
Tracey Sparling’s ghost bike, as it stood on the corner of W. Burnside and 14th from October 2007 to October 2009.(Photo © J. Maus) The ghost bike that served as a memorial to Tracey Sparling, the 19-year old art student who was struck and killed by a cement truck on W. Burnside back in 2007, … Read more
This weekend is the big Pedal National Bicycle Show at the Oregon Convention Center. There will be lots to do and see, but I wanted to remind everyone that BikePortland is hosting a special section for local BikeCrafters. We’ve reserved two exhibitor booths and will host six local artisans and business owners who will share … Read more
Rob will be in Portland next week.(Photo © J. Maus) The newly hired top gun at the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Rob Sadowsky, won’t officially take the helm until July 1st, but you can meet him and hear him speak at our big Bike to Blazers Rally in Waterfront Park on April 14th. Sadowsky will be … Read more
In Forest Park, near location where Land Rovers were spotted.(Photo © J. Maus) Back in February, dogged by intense media attention and reprimand from Portland Parks & Recreation, mountain bike advocates were forced to defend an illegal trail that was discovered in Forest Park. Now comes word that a pair of Land Rover SUVs were … Read more
Screenshot from Alice Awards site. The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) has unveiled a new website and theme for their 2010 Alice Awards and Auction event. They have also confirmed this year’s list of nominees. “Alice lifts off: Soar with us on two wheels” is the tagline on the new website, which features a vintage aviator … Read more
Detail of Tickle Creek Trail from map in Bi-State Regional Trails System plan. I caught an article in the Daily Journal of Commerce yesterday about an effort by the City of Sandy to fund and build a new trail that would connect to the Springwater Corridor Trail and result in an unbroken path all the … Read more
Aaron McBride of Pedal Nation Events.(Photo © J. Maus) For a first-year event, there’s a lot of buzz in the bike scene about The Bicycle Show, which is coming to the Oregon Convention Center this weekend (and I’m not saying that because they’re an advertiser). Aaron McBride with Pedal Nation events has packed the schedule … Read more
Detail of trail system plan. View larger version here.
Detail of Sunday Parkways route through Northwest Portland.Download full size PDF here
“More cars on more roads may not be the best way to move people more effectively.” — Ray LaHood, US Secretary of Transportation U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is doing more than his part to dismantle our nation’s car-centric status-quo. After his “end of favoring motorized transportation” proclamation last month, LaHood is now … Read more
“There’s a lot going on in Portland, but there are other cities having more astonishing success at this point.” — Loren Mooney, Editor-in-Chief Bicycling Magazine Bicycling Magazine’s annual list of America’s top bicycle cities puts Portland in unfamiliar territory: second place. Since 1995, Portland has consistently been ranked as the #1 biking city, earning the … Read more
Cookies by bike. There are so many bike-centric business sprouting up in Portland these days that I need a business editor just to keep up. Adding to the long list of Portland businesses that are either operated from bicycles or focused on the people who ride them are Cookie Pedalers and The Bicycle Chiropractor. The … Read more