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[Ric Balfour] Trail advocate and planner Ric Balfour is spearheading an effort to transform the small town of Vernonia (about 45 miles west of Portland) into a cycling paradise. The town already boasts the popular Banks-Vernonia Trail, a 20 mile Oregon State Parks trail between the towns of Banks and Vernonia, but Balfour sees much … Read more
[Patrick Cook-Deegan] College student Patrick Cook-Deegan will be in Portland tomorrow night to speak about his “Cycle for Schools” bike ride he completed last summer in SE Asia. He rode 2,800 miles across Laos, Cambodia and Burma and raised $22,500 under for the international literacy non-profit group, Room to Read, which used the money to … Read more
[The scene from inside last year’s event.] Filmed by Bike founder and promoter Ayleen Crotty has announced that the event will expand to seven screenings this year. That’s up from two screenings at last year’s event when over 250 people were turned away from a packed Clinton Street Theater.
[The Vanilla Bicycles booth at the Handmade Bicycle Show.]
[A popular shirt available through Microcosm.] Recently on a local cycling email list, news surfaced that Microcosm Publishing and founder Joe Biel, were leaving Portland. Microcosm is the company behind most of the bike stickers, zines, t-shirts and general bike propaganda that is a common sight on backpacks and messenger bags throughout the city. But … Read more
KBOO Bike Show host supreme Ayleen Crotty has announced that all the archives of the show are now available online. Believe it or not the show has been on the air for over six years. Ayleen and Sara Stout hosted the first show back on October 24, 2001.
Ending five months of speculation and courting by City of Portland officials, Don Walker, founder of the North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) just announced that the event will be in Portland next year on March February 7-10 at the Oregon Convention Center. The announcement was made at the culmination of the third annual NAHBS … Read more
[The cherry blossoms are already blooming down here.] Today was another action-packed day here in San Jose at the Handmade Bicycle Show. I finally got to meet Kirk Pacenti. Kirk is a former product designer at Bontrager and is well-known in the framebuilding world for his lugs (the things that join frame tubes together), but … Read more
Here’s a nice bike love story for you. Sprockette and Portland school teacher Maggie Michaels got the surprise of her life today. Maggie is the girlfriend (and muse) of builder Joseph Ahearne and he has been secretly working for months on a special “mixte” style bike that he unveiled today. She showed up at the … Read more
[Clever Cycles’ Todd Fahrner in San Jose.] Cleverchimp founder and Clever Cycles co-owner Todd Fahrner is here at the Handmade Bicycle Show and he just gave me an update on his plans to open up a new bike shop in Portland. Todd and his partners in the business (his wife Martina Fahrner and Rachel and … Read more
What a day. This morning I left the house in driving, cold, rain. A few hours later, I was pedaling in blue skies and California sunshine.
The front page of today’s Metro section of the Oregonian has perhaps one of my favorite headlines ever; “In Oregon, bike culture isn’t partisan.” The story, by the O’s Salem staffer Harry Esteve, is about how Republican Senator Jason Atkinson is behind a bill that would re-word existing bicycle equipment requirements to exclude fixed-gear bicycles … Read more