Alice Awards gala lives up to hype
A horde of Oregon and Washington’s “who’s who” of cycling showed up at the BTA’s Alice Awards and Auction Saturday night.
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New event kicks off mountain bike racing season
[Race promoter Kris Schamp.] Tom Hoffman and Kris Schamp (the man behind the Mountain Bike Short Track series and the Kruger’s Crossing cyclocross race) are kicking off the mountain bike racing season with Horning’s Hustle. The race is scheduled for March 25th and will take place at Horning’s Hideout, a private ranch out near North … Read more
Presentation will recap SE Asia bike trip
[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
Filmed by Bike expands to seven shows
[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.
Booth, Speedvagen mark new direction for Vanilla Bicycles
[The Vanilla Bicycles booth at the Handmade Bicycle Show.]
Handmade bike show coming to Portland in ’08
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
Day 2: Pacenti, longbikes, Sycip rumors, and 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
Ms. Michaels gets her mixte
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
Day one at the Handmade Bike Show
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.
"Wham Bam" event will showcase world’s best slope-stylers
[Coming to North Plains March 5-6.] Next week, Portland will host the largest slope-style mountain bike competition in the U.S. The Wham Bam Thank You Jam will take place at the HindsightMX Indoor Motorcross Park in North Plains (just a few miles West of downtown Portland) and is expected to attract over 50 of the … Read more
Portland picked to host world carfree conference
[A scene from Portland’s Car Free Days last September.] The city of Portland has been chosen to host the 2008 Towards Carfree Cities conference. The conference is a project of the World Carfree Network and it aims to “bring together people who are promoting practical alternatives to car dependence.” Portland will be the first U.S. … Read more