Job: Retail Store Manager (Bike Gallery)

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Job Title: Retail Store Manager
Company/Organization: Bike Gallery
Job Description:

Retail Store Managers are responsible for all day to day store operations. Bike Gallery Store Managers are part of a dynamic, mulit store, leadership team. Primary responsibilities include:
* Hiring, training and coaching for retail sales excellence.
* Ensuring the highest standards of customer service.
* Contributing to the development of an outstanding management team.
* Connecting customers with products and services that enhance thier cycling lifestyle.
* Leading change and continuous improvement processes.
* Enhance the culture of accountability to effective inventory management.
Successful applicants will demonstrate a strong history of high performance retail management with proven financial results. Store Management positions are full time, offer competetive wages and a generous benefits package.

How to Apply:
Submit a resume and cover letter to resumes(at)bikegallery(dot)com

Riding through the storm: Photos, tips, links, and inspiration

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A scene on SE Madison in January 2009.
(Photos © J. Maus)

There’s snow in the forecast! Weather pros think is very likely to begin tonight (just before the evening commute). With that in mind, I wanted to remind folks that using a bicycle when it’s snowing or when snow is on the roads is a completely viable way to get around — just as viable as using transit or driving a car.

As we’ve documented in years past, plenty of Portlanders have no trouble riding on snowy roads. Here are some photos in case you think that everyone hangs their bikes up when the snow comes down…

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The Monday Roundup

Streetfilms looks to get ’em while they’re
young with Zozo, the livable streets mascot.

Here’s the news that caught our eye this week:

– Some (very) large companies are finding it beneficial to encourage employees to bike to work, and to stay active in general, in part as a way to control rising health care costs.

– After discovering that nearly half of bicycle deaths in London each year involved freight trucks, the city’s mayor has called for a ban on the heavy, high vehicles, saying they are incompatible with city streets.

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Black Marin Bobcat Trail 2010

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Year: 2010
Brand: Marin
Model: Bobcat Trail
Color:Black
Size:19″
Serial: CA10240JGD413
Photo: http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/5061/greigsbike.jpg
Stolen in Portland, OR 97204
Stolen:2010-09-4
Stolen From: Hilton Hotel at 921 sw 6th Ave, Portland, OR 97204
Neighborhood: Downtown Portland
Owner: Greig Bevans
OwnerEmail: gbevans@pdx.edu
Reward: $100
Description: Two Michelin Country Rock Tires
saddlebag, bike computer, two tail lamps and headlamp, customer seat, two water bottle holders, topeak mini morph tire pump, Bicycle Multi-tool, two replacement tubes, air gages, tire levers all on bike
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 10-073631
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

silver w/purple text centurion lemans

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Brand: centurion
Model: lemans
Color:silver w/purple text
Size:about 53 cm
Stolen in Portland, OR 97214
Stolen:2010-11-18
Stolen From: 2117 SE 12th ave. form my house.
Neighborhood: Se right off of hawthorne
Owner: lorelei polk
OwnerEmail: lorelei.mira.polk@gmail.com
Description: silver centurion with purple text. Blue and purple thin lines lives on the bike. It has plastic hearts on the spokes but I imagine they were taken off. Road bike, black seat and black handle bar grips. Also had blue foot holder things on the pedals.
Police record with: portland pd
Police reference#: 10-96406
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike

Aqua Rivendell Bleriot

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Model: Rivendell Bleriot
Color:Aqua
Size:59 cm
Stolen in , OR
Stolen:2010-11-19
Stolen From: Garage at N Haight and Rosa Parks
Neighborhood: Peninsula
Owner: Jeremy Rosses
OwnerEmail: jmrossen@hotmail.com
Reward: $100
Description: Rivendell Bleriot 59 cm touring bicycle with wood fenders, Brooks saddle, Simplex bar end shifters, 650 B wheels
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Samaritans and serial numbers: Three stolen bike recoveries, two things in common

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“If the person looking to buy my bike from Goodwill hadn’t checked your site, I would have never recovered it… Thanks!”
— A happily reunited bike owner

It’s been a while since we mentioned our Stolen Bike Listings or shared a stolen bike recovery story. I used to keep track of every recovery, but after we had about 20 or so, I stopped counting and they didn’t really seem like news anymore.

But just in the last few weeks, we’ve confirmed three recoveries. They made us feel so good that I thought it’d be fun to share the stories with you. Each one shows that a combination of serials numbers and Good Samaritans are sometimes all you need to get your bike back.

So here goes…

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Mayor Adams launches traffic safety campaign near SE Foster ‘freeway’

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Adams and the banner at this
morning’s event.
(Photos © J. Maus)

Portland Mayor Sam Adams led a press conference today to officially launch the Bureau of Transportation’s new High Crash Corridor Safety campaign. Standing under a newly unveiled banner that stretches all the way across SE Foster Road (one of the city’s most dangerous), Adams said, “This street functions in many ways like a freeway, but it’s not.”

The new “See Kids” banner, with the eyes of a small child staring down on traffic, is PBOT’s educational component of the new safety campaign that focuses on high speed arterials where there are a higher than average rate of fatal and injury crashes. “There are reasons why businesses use banners on busy streets like this,” Adams told the crowd, “Because it draws attention… and it works.”

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One year later, Kipp Crawford’s parents get their day in court

A flyer seen in North Portland
looking for clues to Crawford’s death.
(Photo © J. Maus)

In the early morning hours of November 4th, 2009, Portland musician Kipp Crawford, 39, was hit and killed by two separate drunk drivers. Last night The Oregonian reported that after over a year, Crawford’s parents have finally gotten some closure in the form of legal action in their son’s death.

According to The Oregonian, one of the people who ran over Crawford, Felisa Larae Washington, plead guilty to DUII in a Multnomah County court yesterday and was sentenced to 15 days in jail, three years of probation, and a $1,000 fine.

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