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light metalic green kona humuhumunukunukuapuaa 1993

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Year: 1993
Brand: kona
Model: humuhumunukunukuapuaa
Color:light metalic green
Size:14-16 in?
Serial: ?
Stolen in portland, OR 97318
Stolen:2009-07-3
Stolen From: From my driveway at my home near 60th and NE Prescott.
Neighborhood: Cully / Prescott
Owner: peter archer
OwnerEmail: peterarcherart@yahoo.com
Reward: 100.00
Description: Single speed, coaster break, steel, mountain bike style cruiser. BMX style silver bar clamp, straight forks(grey) white pedals, cruiser handlebars turned backwards,Ritchey seat, Very sentimental!!!
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike

Builders challenge; design the ultimate transportation bike

[BikePortland.org is an official media partner with the upcoming, five-week Oregon Manifest event that will celebrate bike builders from across the nation, bike advocacy, and much more.

Stay tuned for more coverage of builders, events, rides, and more.]

A few of the builders who will compete.

Portland just might bear witness to the Next Big Thing in transportation bikes.

As we’ve shared recently, city bikes are (finally) sweeping the bike industry right now and that makes the timing of the Oregon Manifest’s Constructor’s Design Challenge competition all the better.

The Design Challenge is based on what were known as “technical trials” held in France in the early 1900s. In those trials, builders built frames and components to achieve specific goals and that would have to stand up to actual riding (as opposed to making a bike for to be displayed at a bike show).

Need something to occupy, amaze, and inspire you as you lie on the beach, in your backyard, or on your couch in the coolest room in your house at the end of a long day this summer? Check out the BikePortland Bookstore for ideas, or browse through our most recent additions below.

Through our partnership with Portland’s own Powell’s Books, BikePortland.org will receive a portion of all sales on Powells.com made through the links on this page (including any books and DVDs, not just the ones we link to).

Who’s to blame for poorly timed
commercial breaks during the Tour?

Yesterday’s exciting Tour de France stage saw popular racer Thomas Voeckler (who won many fans for his courageous defense of the Yellow Jersey in 2004). Voeckler pounced on his breakaway companions and rolled into Perpignan alone for his first-ever stage win.

But for many Portlanders — who were watching the action unfold live on their televisions via the Versus sports channel — all they saw was a commercial (and ironically, one person reported it was an ad for Comcast).

The inopportune break really peeved 47 year-old Lewis & Clark law professor Dan Rohlf. “This morning the break occurred just seconds before the end of the race,” he wrote, “Viewers missed all the riders finishing.”

Billing itself as “the premiere event for cycling microbrew lovers in North America,” the Bikes ‘n’ Brew Century will offer a physical test, a visual feast, and a bounty of good beers.

The informal, 100-mile group ride (scheduled for July 18th) will take participants from Southeast Portland up and over Mt. Hood and down the backside to Hood River. Organizers call it a “fairly challenging” route but then add that, “frequent beer and food breaks will help dull the pain.

Year: 1980s
Brand: Cannondale
Model: Road bike
Color:Red
Size:57cm
Serial: ???
Stolen in Portland, OR 97206
Stolen:2009-05-30
Stolen From: SE Rhone and SE McGloughin in the Brooklyn neighborhood of SE Portland
Neighborhood: Brooklyn
Owner: Charles Walsh
OwnerEmail: walshc22@hotmail.com
Description: A red Cannondale road bike with bright yellow handlebar tape. Four gold and one black bolt in the front chain ring
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike

Portland credit union offers bike loans (and they’re not the first)

They now offer a bike loan.

Just over a year ago, we reported that Portland-based Unitus Community Credit Union offered a bike loan. Now comes word that a second local credit union, Northwest Resource Federal Credit Union, has a similar program.

Free Geek is one of Portland’s most
bike-friendly businesses.

In Portland, we’re fortunate to have many local businesses and organizations that support bicycling. Free Geek, a non-profit based in Southeast Portland that recycles and sells used computers and parts, makes biking easier by selling a few accessories in their Thrift Store.

One of the items they sell is a bike light (the Knog Beetle 2). Today, an alert reader informed me that Free Geek will give everyone who buys one of them free batteries for life.

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Connor was struck on SW Hall Blvd.

The Beaverton Police Department reports that last night at about 11:49 pm, a man was hit by a truck on SW Hall Blvd just west of SW Scholls Ferry Road. The truck fled the scene and left 53 year old Jeff Connor laying the middle of the road.

According to Oregon Media Central (OMC), Connor is the nightside editor for KOIN television, the regional CBS affiliate station.

Here are more details from BPD:

Year: 2006
Brand: Redline
Model: 925
Color:gray
Size:54″
Stolen in Portland, OR 97209
Stolen:2009-07-6
Stolen From: the bike rack at the Civic Condominiums (directly across from the entry to The Agency sports bar)
Neighborhood: Goosehollow
Owner: Jeff Guggenheim
OwnerEmail: jeffguggenheim@gmail.com
Description: Gray, Redline 9.2.5 with bullhorn handlebars wrapped in pink bar tape
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike

An update on bikeway design for TriMet’s new light rail bridge

Bridge concept design
by Donald MacDonald.

Once it’s built, TriMet’s Milwaukie Light Rail bridge over the Willamette River will be the first in the country to carry only light rail and people on bikes and foot (no cars).

What will the actual bike and pedestrian facilities look like?

TriMet is currently working out design details with their new architect on the project, Donald MacDonald. At a recent bridge design meeting, MacDonald unveiled some interesting drawings of what the new bridge might look like. Also, TriMet’s bridge team offered details on the project to the City’s Bicycle Advisory Committee last month.

Jeff Jahn of PortlandArt.net was at a recent design meeting and has covered the design talks closely. He says MacDonald has been touting the bridge’s bike and ped facilities as possibly being some of the best in the world.

“Whether it’s a hip aesthetic or an environmental message, transportation bikes are making a lifestyle and cultural statement that will change the face of the industry.”

Bicycle Retailer and Industry News (BRAIN) has made it official: “transportation bikes” are taking the bike industry by storm.

In a story published on their website yesterday, the publication wrote that all the major players are ramping up their city bike offerings and that they are finally getting, “the acceptance and sales success that mountain bikes enjoyed in recent years.”

The article points to the new Globe brand recently launched by Specialized (it was formally just a part of their line, but it’s now a stand-alone brand) as just one of many signs that transportation bikes are hot.

light metalic green kona humuhumunukunukuapuaa 1993

Builders challenge; design the ultimate transportation bike

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Red Cannondale Road bike 1980s

Portland credit union offers bike loans (and they’re not the first)

Local non-profit offers bike lights with free batteries for life

KOIN TV staffer victim of hit-and-run in Beaverton

gray Redline 925 2006

An update on bikeway design for TriMet’s new light rail bridge

Industry mag says “transportation bike” revolution is upon us

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