Tomorrow night’s “Opening Night Blowout Party” for the Oregon Manifest Handmade Bike Show (which opens tomorrow morning) will feature a special, six-year retrospective compilation of films from Portland’s very own Filmed by Bike film festival. Filmed by Bike founder Ayleen Crotty put together the screening with sponsorship from River City Bicycles. Crotty says they’ve put … Read more
Bike Loan Program staff: Dave Villalobos, Briana Orr, and Price Armstrong.(Photos courtesy U O) The University of Oregon has found something constructive to do with the many bikes that are abandoned and impounded on their Eugene campus each year — the bikes get refurbished and then loaned out to students through their new Bike Loan … Read more
(Photo © J. Maus) Tonight in southeast Portland, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) will toast another successful Bike Commute Challenge. The event, which has been held every September since 1995, is a friendly competition between workplaces to see who bike to work more. All participants log their commutes online to compete for bragging rights and … Read more
The other night I ran into Joe Staples and got another glimpse of the upcoming Oregon Manifest Handmade Bike Show. Joe works for Wieden + Kennedy (the global ad firm with a headquarters in downtown Portland whose clients include Starbucks and Nike just to name a few) and he is one of the creative minds … Read more
Freak Bike Fall posterLarger version here(Illustrated by Emily O’Connor) Freak Bike Fall is Portland’s newest bike festival. Slated for October 17-19th, the event is being put together by Emily O’Connor, a Portland transplant who moved here from Michigan about a year ago. Since coming to Portland, Emily has been active in the community. You might … Read more
Roger Geller is back to leading the charge on the Bike Master Plan update.(Photos © J. Maus) Last summer, the City of Portland’s effort to update their Bicycle Master Plan was all the rage. Fresh off an attempt by Mayor Potter to cut funding for the plan (he re-instated the funds two weeks later), spirits … Read more
Crowded bike racks at Roseway Heights school this morning.(Photo: Anne Laufe) Today is International Walk and Bike to School Day and 44 schools in Portland (and more than 150 throughout Oregon) will celebrate programs that encourage kids to get to school under their own power. In Portland, the day’s festivities will be centered at Rosa … Read more
[Via BikingBis.com] After news broke about the passage of the bike commuter tax provision in the recent financial bailout bill, many commenters had questions about how it would work. To help answer those questions, the League of American Bicyclists has published a list of Frequently Asked Questions. I’ve pasted excerpts from each question below:
Andrew Berube of iCycle Delivery.(Photo courtesy Andrew Berube) There’s a new bicycle delivery service in town that serves inner southeast Portland. The company is iCycle Delivery and it was started two weeks ago by 28-year-old Andrew Berube. Berube’s delivery area is bordered on the west by MLK Blvd., on the east by SE 39th, and … Read more
Here’s the info from organizers of the Oregon Manifest Handmade Bike Show (which starts Friday and goes through Sunday 10/12). PORTLAND’S OWN BIKE SHOW NEEDS YOUR HELP! On October 10th and 11th bike geeks, master craftsmen, and obsessed enthusiasts converge for Portland’s handmade bike extravaganza, Oregon Manifest. We’re still looking for a few more volunteers … Read more
This morning I’m off to the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis to attend the Oregon Public Health Association’s annual conference. I’ve been invited by the Northwest Health Foundation (NWHF) to join a panel discussion titled, New Partners in the Movement to Re-frame “Public Health”. The NWHF is behind the Community Health Priorities project, … Read more
The most recent data collected by the U.S. Census’s American Community Survey (ACS) shows that the number of Portlanders who commute to work by bicycle has dropped from 4.4% in 2006 to 4.2% in 2007. The survey asked, “How did you usually get to work last week?”, and 10,987 people (out of just over 280,000) … Read more