Year: 2007
Brand: rocky mountain
Model: etsx-10
Color:red
Size:16.5″
Stolen in Portland, OR
Stolen:2010-08-12
Stolen From: northwest portland hostel
Neighborhood: NW
Owner: noel gingrich
OwnerEmail: noelezra@hotmail.com
Description: small dent in frame on lower tube
torn red/black WTB seat
Police record with: portland pd
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
At about 7:30 this evening, a TriMet bus operator collided with a man biking on 6th Avenue in downtown Portland. According to TriMet spokesperson Mary Fetsch, the bus was traveling north on 6th and was taking a left turn onto SW Morrison when the collision occurred. The person on the bike was also on 6th and traveling north.
Here are photos taken from the scene by readers Nate Gibson and Bill Jackson:
Year: 2006
Brand: TREK
Model: 820
Color:Red/Orange w/ Silver
Size:Type L frame:13″ – Wheel 26″
Serial: 055CS628A
Photo: No
Stolen in Wood Village, OR
Stolen:2010-08-7
Stolen From: NE 242nd & Glisan, across from Cherry Park Safeway.
Neighborhood: Wood Village / Troutdale
Owner: Jeff Clark
OwnerEmail: jefflc4@comcast.net
Description: Woman’s frame, silver front shock forks, bike body red/orange, silver hard tail.
Police record with: Filed with Gresham
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Earlier this week, the City of Vancouver installed two more on-street bike parking corrals, raising the city’s total to three. The new racks were installed Tuesday morning at Esther Short Park and on the corner of Broadway and McLoughlin Blvd in downtown Vancouver.
As reported online in The Vancouver Voice last week, the projects were approved by the Parking Advisory Committee in July, but were not expected to be installed until late summer due to a back log of city pavement projects.
Year: 2008
Brand: Leader (painted purple)
Model: 712 track frame
Color:dark purple
Size:54
Stolen in Portland, OR 97219
Stolen:2010-08-11
Stolen From: SW portland on Southridge street close to Tryon Creek state park.
Neighborhood: Sw southridge dr. Portland/ LO
Owner: Chet Malinow
OwnerEmail: p.chetty12345@gmail.com
Description: dark purple painted leader track frame. White areospoke infront, green deep v in back. Sugino cranks, green shinny riser handle bars, white soma seat
Police record with: Portland PD
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
“By the 1970s, less than thirty of the two hundred seventy… buildings downtown remained…When did Portland start to trade its most unique built feature for acres and acres of pay by the hour asphalt?”
— Dan Haneckow, historian
A recent post on local historian Dan Haneckow’s Cafe Unknown blog, delved into a sad part of Portland’s urban legacy — the demolition of downtown buildings to make room for surface parking lots. He writes, “By the 1970s, less than thirty of the two hundred seventy cast iron buildings downtown remained.”
But why? It wasn’t always just to make room for highways and onramps. Here’s what Haneckow thinks led to this practice:
In their ongoing effort to make the biking and walking path adjacent to I-205 into a “world class facility,” the Oregon Department of Transportation has just announced the “Equity Bike Ride” to show off what they’ve done and what’s planned for the future.
Shelli Romero, ODOT’s Public Policy & Community Affairs Manager, has been doing a lot of biking this summer and says she has “become passionate” about it. In an email announcing the ride, Romero notes that she has also “thought a lot about how bicycling and the issues of equity and creating/building and supporting communities intersect.”
A lobbying group that made headlines in June for trying to tilt a pot of Metro’s federal funds away from active transportation and toward freight projects now has a former top aide to Governor Ted Kulongoski to manage its communications efforts.
Hans Bernard, who handled transportation issues as the Governor’s legislative deputy director from 2007 to 2009, is now principal at Hubbell Communications, the public relations firm hired by BEST (Building the Economy through Sustainable Transportation), a coalition of business, industry, and freight interests.
A new book by an urban studies professor at Portland State University takes in-depth approach to examining Portland’s burgeoning DIY, ‘artisan economy.’
Charles Heying is the author of Brews to Bikes (Ooligan Press), a book due out in October that “explains how post-industrial economic transformations have created a space for artisan enterprises to flourish.” Along with food, fashion, and beer, the book features handmade bicycles as one of Portland’s signature sectors of the artisan economy.
Year: 2010
Brand: Electra
Model: Ticino
Color:Pearl
Size:medium
Serial: eltt0006330
Photo: http://clevercycles.com/products/bicycles/city-bikes/electra/#2010-Electra-Ticino-16D-Women
Stolen in Portland, OR 97215
Stolen:2010-08-11
Stolen From: South Tabor, Hawthorne Blvd 70s
Neighborhood: Mt. Tabor
Owner: Cindy Louis
OwnerEmail: lipringhead@yahoo.com
Reward: $100
Description: Stolen after 10 pm on August 10th, before 6:30 am on August 11th. Pearl/white bike. Shimano 16 spd, Aluminum frameset. 42t Chainring. Hammered alloy fenders on the front and back.
Police record with: PPD
Police reference#: 10-153728
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Instead of their usual monthly meeting at City Hall, the City of Portland’s Bicycle Advisory Committee took to the streets for their annual bike ride last night.
The idea of the ride was to share some of PBOT’s recently completed and upcoming bikeway projects with committee members and other interested citizens and advocates. Notable faces on the ride included author and reporter for The Oregonian Jeff Mapes, Portland Police Officer (and BAC Vice-Chair) Robert Pickett, Mayor Adams’ Chief of Staff Tom Miller (riding his daughter in a bakfiets). Also joining us were several of bike planning professionals from around the region and the state including the biking and walking program coordinator from the City of Wilsonville Jeff Owen and City of Eugene planner David Roth.
Below is a detail of the ride map followed by a few highlights.
A Portland resident and self-described web developer, musician and bike geek, has a track on his new album about the Idaho Stop law. The rapper (whose name we’ve removed from the text of this article) describes his music as “white-boy electro rap” and the “Idaho Stop” track appears on his album “I Sold Out But No One Bought Me.”
Before sharing some of the song’s lyrics, here’s some background on the Idaho Stop for all of you who are not familiar…