[via the Bike Commuters blog]
I don’t know much about this video, but I know that it absolutely rules.
It’s a circa 1980s kung-fu flick where the heroines use BMX bikes as deadly weapons (complete with turbo-boost, screeching tire sound effects). Everyone who loves bikes has to grin while watching this…
[Via BikingBis.com]
After news broke about the passage of the bike commuter tax provision in the recent financial bailout bill, many commenters had questions about how it would work.
To help answer those questions, the League of American Bicyclists has published a list of Frequently Asked Questions. I’ve pasted excerpts from each question below:
There’s a new bicycle delivery service in town that serves inner southeast Portland.
The company is iCycle Delivery and it was started two weeks ago by 28-year-old Andrew Berube. Berube’s delivery area is bordered on the west by MLK Blvd., on the east by SE 39th, and goes north to Burnside and south to SE Powell.
Berube said he’s always wanted to make a living riding his bike. He told me today that he quit a job remodeling houses because, “I got tired of swinging a hammer and wanted to do something I love.”
Here’s the info from organizers of the Oregon Manifest Handmade Bike Show (which starts Friday and goes through Sunday 10/12).
PORTLAND’S OWN BIKE SHOW NEEDS YOUR HELP!
On October 10th and 11th bike geeks, master craftsmen, and obsessed enthusiasts converge for Portland’s handmade bike extravaganza, Oregon Manifest.
We’re still looking for a few more volunteers to work the show. If you love bikes and appreciate the finer qualities of beer tokens, please contact Diane at Chris King: PEOPLE@chrisking.com
Full details and schedule live here: www.oregonmanifest.com
This morning I’m off to the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis to attend the Oregon Public Health Association’s annual conference.
I’ve been invited by the Northwest Health Foundation (NWHF) to join a panel discussion titled, New Partners in the Movement to Re-frame “Public Health”. The NWHF is behind the Community Health Priorities project, which is an exciting effort working to “Stimulate public conversation about health in our communities” (among other things).
The most recent data collected by the U.S. Census’s American Community Survey (ACS) shows that the number of Portlanders who commute to work by bicycle has dropped from 4.4% in 2006 to 4.2% in 2007.
The survey asked, “How did you usually get to work last week?”, and 10,987 people (out of just over 280,000) replied that they used their bicycle (the 4.2% number is arrived at after subtracting the number of respondents that work at home).
This decline would be the first drop in Portland’s bike-to-work mode split as reported by the ACS since at least 1990 (when the number was 1.12%).
The opening race of the Cross Crusade series set a record for attendance yesterday. Kenji Sugahara, the director of the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association says that, despite the wet weather, 1,267 racers participated.
That number is up from 1,078 participants in 2007 and is nearly twice the number that took part in 2006 when 760 racers showed up.