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black KHS Urban xpress

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Brand: KHS
Model: Urban xpress
Color:black
Stolen in 97209, OR
Stolen:2010-06-17
Stolen From: 19th avenue near lovejoy
Neighborhood: NW
Owner: Kim Crane
OwnerEmail: 2bethechang@gmail.com
Reward: a plate of homemade cookies or cupcakes, my restored faith in humanity, and my eternal gratitude
Description: black KHS Urban xpress with green pannier, bike rack, attachment for front light

(703) 298-6559
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: T10003697
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Thoughts on TriMet and a personal message from ‘Al M’

If you haven’t been following along in the coverage and comments (nearly 300 of them) about TriMet in the last few days, let me try and bring you up to speed.

On Monday, I reported about a collision between a bike and a bus on Hawthorne. A guy on a bike claimed a bus came from behind him and squeezed him into a parked car. Coincidentally, I had just heard from two readers with complaints about TriMet bus operators. With all of this in mind, I published a story the next day outlining stories of three “aggressive TriMet bus operators” (note the new and improved headline).

Year: 2009
Brand: Trek
Model: Soho
Color:Grey
Serial: WTU091C2590E
Stolen in Portland, OR 97201
Stolen:2010-06-18
Stolen From: Stolen from SW Portland in the neighborhood above PSU campus.
Neighborhood: SW Hills/Portland Heights
Owner: Mark Gorman
OwnerEmail: mark.s.gorman@comcast.net
Reward: $100
Description: Stock
Police record with: Waiting for police now
Police reference#: Not yet
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Friday Opinion: Advocacy groups should do more to leverage oil anxiety

[Publisher’s note: I’ve got a lot of opinions, but it’s perilous for me to try and weave them into the daily news stories here. So I’m going to try and start writing them up, once a week, in the form of the Friday Opinion column. Here goes…]

Seen on Mississippi Ave.
over the weekend.
(Photo © J. Maus)

With the ongoing and depressing (on many levels) disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, I’ve been wondering — why aren’t bike non-profits doing more to seize the moment and turn anger about the oil spill into more support for biking?

The main criticism of President Obama’s recent speech was that he didn’t grab hold of us and offer up a tangible way we could turn our anxiety about the spill into action. He spoke of “now” being the moment to do something to make it less likely this will ever happen again.

Something like, say, ride a bike more often?

This week’s featured job listing seeks a Director level rain maker for local advocacy group, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. Full time with benefits, plus you will be working alongside the new Executive Director, Rob Sadowsky.

Follow the link and tell them you saw the job on BikePortland.org. Good luck!

Twenty-three hours of scheduled events today beginning with Breakfast on the Bridges and ending with an all-nighter out the Springwater corridor. Many fun options in between with lots of chances to make friends, eat well and have fun!

Share the fun with our Ride Report Form. We’ll be posting some of these and other Pedalpalooza news on our Pedalpalooza Special Coverage Page.

Year: 2009
Brand: Kona
Model: Honky-Tonk
Stolen in , OR
Stolen:2010-06-18
Stolen From: in front of video lair in sellwood, lock was cut near se17th and nehalem
Neighborhood: Sellwood
Owner: Ian Stevens
OwnerEmail: severaltincans@gmail.com
Description: Blue Kona 59″ frame, white grip tape, dinged up black pedals
Police record with: Portland PD
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Be a ‘Superhero’ and help save Sunday Parkways!

Beth Hamon,
Sunday Parkways volunteer.
-Slideshow below-
(Photos © J. Maus)

OK Portland, it’s time to step up and take care of a good friend in need. That good friend is Sunday Parkways, an absolute gem of an event that we are all very lucky to have.

Word from organizers is that the event is in need of a bunch more Superheroes (volunteers) to swoop in and make sure it remains a successful event. Put bluntly; without more community ownership — both physical and financial — Sunday Parkways could be in serious trouble.

I’ll save the financial details for later, but what’s urgently needed now are more Intersection Superheros. According to my friend Neal Armstrong with Good Sport Promotion (the company hired to manage the volunteer effort), they need a total of 200 Intersection Superheroes to monitor, direct, and divert traffic as well as chat with nearby residents to make sure they are cool with the event.

This frame from onboard camera
shows Sebastian Case on the sidewalk.
-Watch video below-

TriMet has released the onboard video from a collision between a bus and a bike that happened on SE Hawthorne earlier this week.

The video clearly shows Sebastian Case — who was featured in an Oregonian story about the incident — riding his bike on the sidewalk east of SE 12th about four seconds prior to the collision. Case then enters the roadway after the bus had already begun passing him. He then tries, unsuccessfully, to squeeze between the bus and a parked van.

City of Portland Commissioner Nick Fish, who oversees Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R), has just announced five new management initiatives that will “address ecological and recreational concerns about Forest Park.”

Fish is reacting to mounting public pressure to do something about the deteriorating health of the park. This pressure came to a head last month with a research report published by City Club of Portland titled, “Call to Action.” That report admonished the Parks Bureau for neglecting the park and not completing a number of studies and surveys called for in the 1995 Forest Park Natural Resources Management Plan.

Year: 2004
Brand: Ibex
Model: Corrida
Color:Black
Size:Medium
Photo: http://img63.imageshack.us/i/bikeimg.jpg/
Stolen in Portland, OR 97220
Stolen:2010-05-01
Stolen From: Stolen from PDX Parking and Storage located at 10279 BE Sandy Blvd
Neighborhood: Sandy blvd, i205 & i84
Owner: Vanessa Constanti
OwnerEmail: vconstanti@gmail.com
Reward: $100
Description: I think the gears and brakes were both shimano, comfort seat, rack on back with fold up basket, light on front, it had splash guards, non-clip peddles were on it… really good condition
Police record with: Portland PD
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Interesting new bikes we might be seeing in Portland

Two big announcements in the bike world this week could result in some interesting new bikes showing up on the streets of Portland.

The first is from the biggest bike brand in the world, Trek. Trek announced Tuesday that they will shelve the Gary Fisher brand as a standalone line and from now on Gary’s bikes will be offered in the form of The Gary Fisher Collection, which will be be sold as part of the Trek line. I took a peak at the new Fisher bikes online yesterday and noticed one that looked particularly interesting for Portland: the Transport+.

black KHS Urban xpress

Thoughts on TriMet and a personal message from ‘Al M’

Grey Trek Soho 2009

Friday Opinion: Advocacy groups should do more to leverage oil anxiety

Job of the Week

Pedalpalooza Daily: Friday, June 18th

Kona Honky-Tonk 2009

Be a ‘Superhero’ and help save Sunday Parkways!

TriMet releases video of Hawthorne ‘squeeze’ incident

Commissioner Fish announces initiatives for Forest Park

Black Ibex Corrida 2004

Interesting new bikes we might be seeing in Portland

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