4/21: 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. I'll post as I can and should improve day-by-day. Thanks for all your support 🙏. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
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Can we do anything about the pavement breaks and bumps on the westside Willamette Greenway Trail? The bad section is south of Rosswood Restaurant — looks like Floragenex, Inc. and OTRADI Bioscience Incubator are businesses that look out on that section of the trail. Am I right that the maintenance of that part is the … Read more
I know this is not directly Portland related, but being a former Portlander who rode my bicycle from Portland, Oregon to Bellingham, Washington for my retirement, I figure some of you may be interested in my latest project which is to create a television mini-series on bicycling around Bellingham and giving a historical narrative of … Read more
ON Monday April 23rd, Oregon Parks and Recreation (OPRD) held their first open hearing regarding allowance of e-bikes on state park paths and several beaches. What I found fascinating was that all the personal testimony of individuals and also 3 businesses which rent and sell e-bikes were completely positive. In March I was at the … Read more
Adventures in riding circles.
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/04/dont-rebuild-that-miami-pedestrian-bridge/557165/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20180405&silverid=Mzc2NzY1NzQ0NzI2S0 This link asks whether that pedestrian bridge was the right thing to attempt. Asks whether the bridge was just a sop to the car-centric culture.
Another cool photo from long-ago on Vintage Portland of an intersection that many of us ride daily. Link to their post: N Vancouver Avenue, 1963
From the cool Vintage Portland site (https://vintageportland.wordpress.com/) “N Killingsworth Street at N Missouri Avenue looking east, with Chickadee restaurant and Piedmont Cycle Shop in view, circa 1942.” Here’s that same intersection today:
Please take this poll. Vote with the Facebook Link below or Vote with a reply on these bikePortland comments . https://www.facebook.com/groups/293708270840115/permalink/753470884863849/ .. URL Above ============================== Diverter Straw Poll. – =========================== Residents near SE 50th are very eager to continue having cars blocked both East/West on Clinton. Construction has done this the last 18 months. a) … Read more
Grant will be at Rivelo at 1PM on Saturday, October 28 for a Q & A session. Got a question for Grant? Ask him yourself! We’ll kick it off with an brief “interview,” conducted by John/Rivelo, then take submitted questions, and end with an open Q & A. Questions submitted in advance would be great, … Read more
We make regular runs to the local homeless shelter with clean socks & underwear, clothes, bedding, and small personal hygiene items (toothpaste, toothbrushes, etc.). Clean socks, especially, are always needed. (They don’t need to be new, just hole-free…and clean.) Drop anything you have to donate at Rivelo any day we’re open. Thursdays and Fridays, 11-6. … Read more
No matter what our President tweeted, no matter what forest is on fire, no matter what ODOT has done that week, the Thursday night ride rides on.
My partner and I woke up at 4:00am and loaded up our touring bikes with coffee, burritos, sandwiches, and moon pies that we’d made the night before. Our route took us to the Trolley Trail to Oregon City to Highway 213 until Wagonwheel Park, south of Mulino. At the time, we didn’t know that this … Read more