The Portland United Mountain Pedalers have just announced their annual Bike Swap Meet event. Details and flyer are below…
The Pigeons have landed: Legendary Chinese bicycles now available in Portland
The Flying Pigeon (starts at $350) was an institution during China’s biking heyday. Now they’re available in Portland.
(Photos: Joe Doebele)
(Photos: Joe Doebele)
Preview party will welcome Madsen SUBs to Portland [Updated]
Get to know the Madsen SUB.
The Hollywood Bike Gallery store will host a preview party to welcome the newest addition to Portland’s growing cargo and utility-bike family — the Madsen Cycles Urban Utility Bicycle.
Advisory: ODOT crews working at Interstate/Greeley
ODOT maintenance crews have begun excavation work in preparation of the Brett Jarolimek memorial that will be installed at N. Interstate and Greeley.
Crews are installing paving stones and doing a general clean-up. ODOT wants everyone to be aware that their trucks will be in the vicinity as the work continues through this week.
The bike lane remains open, but please use caution when coming down that hill.
$4 no more: Gas prices drop, has biking followed?
That was then (04/22/08)…
What a difference a few months makes.
Back in April, high gas prices were on everyone’s mind — especially those in the bike business. The rising cost of gas was having an impact on people’s transportation habits like no advocacy effort of policy change ever could.
River City Bicycles takes ad campaign to the airwaves
“It’s fun putting together advertising directed at more of the general public. I just try to put myself in their place and think of a message that might crack through.
River City Bicycles owner Dave Guettler
If you watch local network television, you might be surprised to see a commercial for River City Bicycles. It’s not typical for a local bike shop to produce a TV ad, but River City’s Dave Guettler, is not a typical bike shop owner.
Guettler is known for his creative ad campaigns. Back in March, BikePortland contributor Carl Larson wrote that his ads go “beyond the ordinary”.
Bike/truck crash at SE Stark and Grand [UPDATED]
Police and medical personnel attend
to the victim of a bike/truck collision at
SE Grand and Stark this morning.
(Photos © J. Maus)
to the victim of a bike/truck collision at
SE Grand and Stark this morning.
(Photos © J. Maus)
This morning at just before 9:00 am, a man driving a Ford F150 XL pickup and a woman riding a 1980s Peugeot ten-speed style bicycle collided in the intersection of SE Stark and SE Grand Ave in Portland’s Central Eastside.
According to medical personnel on the scene, the woman on the bike (who looked to be between 20-25 years of age) sustained facial and head trauma and was taken to OHSU for further evaluation. She was coherent and was able to make a statement to officers before being taken away on a stretcher.*
AASHTO approves framework for U.S. Bike Route System
“We know this route network will not materialize overnight. But then again, neither did the Interstate Highway System.”
— Adventure Cycling’s Ginny Sullivan
Calling it a “very big milestone”, backers of the U.S. Bicycle Route System (USBRS) are celebrating a key decision that sets a course for creating the largest official bicycle route network in the world.
The system’s National Corridor Plan has just been approved by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). The corridor plan is a 50,000 mile network of 50-mile wide swaths that criss-cross the country and link key destinations (map below).
Trick or Vote by bike!
Help scare up some votes this Friday
(threats with a bloody chainsaw not advised).
(Photo © J. Maus)
(threats with a bloody chainsaw not advised).
(Photo © J. Maus)
Looking for another excuse to pedal around the city wearing your Halloween costume?
Want to help remind folks to vote and help distribute (non-partisan) voter guides?
Why not Trick or Vote by bike!?
Trick or Vote is a massive, non-partisan, nationwide get-out-the-vote effort happening in cities all over the country on Halloween night (10/31). The Portland edition has two canvasses, both starting at Audio Cinema (226 SE Madison). After the canvasses, the party starts back at Audio Cinema at 8:00 pm.
More info at TrickorVote.org.
And remember, the only really scary thing about an election is not voting!
Hillsboro crash sends man to the hospital
The Oregonian has the story (emphasis mine):
A 21-year-old bicyclist was hospitalized early this morning after colliding with a pickup truck passing through an intersection, authorities said.
The 7:05 a.m. crash affected rush-hour traffic for three hours. Authorities did not release the identities of the cyclist or driver.
NHTSA releases results of national survey on biking attitudes, behaviors
[via Streetsblog and WashCycle]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has released results from a “first of its kind” national survey that was designed to gauge behaviors and attitudes about bicycling and walking.