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Another fabulous job has been listed this week on the BikePortland Job Listings. Here’s your chance to work at Mountain Soles, the cool shoe and gear repair business I profiled back in April.
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The Oregonian has a front page story this morning about a new potential bridge that would cross the Willamette River south of the Marquam Bridge.
Writer Dylan Rivera reports that it would be “Portland’s first new bridge in 34 years,” and that it would be unique among other Willamette River bridges in its prohibition of a certain type of vehicle…
women’s bicycle, cargo rack on seat stem, lots of black electrical tape between handle bars, kick stand
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It is a red Diamond Back full suspension mountain bike with stickers on about fifty percent of the frame. The frame is 18 inches it has 5.5 inches of suspension travel in the rear shock and 5 in the fron. It has a seat bag and light mount in the back. on the handle bars their is a light mount and a gps. The front brake adjustment screw is stripped. it has front and rear disc brakes, and metal bmx pedals.
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Like new, new Conti GP4000S tires, new brakes, new chain, new handle bar tape. Rough srape on rear wheel quick release, small line scratch on right front fork?
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The Oregonian recently rolled out a new political blog written by Jeff Mapes. You might have met Mapes at any number of bike events and meetings in the past year or so: he recently concluded a sabbatical to research a book on how bicycles are shaping the urban bicycle movement in America (that’s my description, not his).
Now he’s back at the desk for the Oregonian and working hard on his Mapes on politics blog.
This morning he got to blend his two areas of expertise on an an article titled “Sam Adams and his bicycling base”.
A few weeks ago, I shared the news that the New York City Dept. of Transportation had decided to install the city’s first-ever physically separated bike lane (a.k.a. cycle track).
Well, the bike revolution must have taken hold within the bureaucracy because they’ve already started the project.
Video activist extraordinaire Clarence Eckerson happened upon it yesterday and says, “I had to pinch myself when I ran into it today. Thank goodness I had a camera [watch his video below]. The DOT here is moving at such an accelerated pace it is hard for us to even keep up!”
Tonight in Southeast Portland — just yards from one of the city’s busiest bikeways — the BTA will hold their annual Bike Commute Challenge after party.
Thousands of bike commuters from companies throughout Oregon (see the impressive list here) “challenged” each other to see who could log the most trips by bike. The event lasted all of September and all signs point to it being another smashing success.
Sam Adams’ run for mayor got off to a rollicking start last night in Southeast Portland. People crowded into Roots Brewing like sardines for a glimpse at the man many expect to be the future leader of our city.
As expected there were many familiar bike community faces in the crowd. I noticed many PDOT and BTA staffers (including both the current and former Executive Directors), a few Zoobombers and even a Sprockette.
Local racers John Howe and Clint Culpepper from Team Beer presented Adams with an official team spoke card (right before posing for the photo at right).
Unless you live in a cave, you know that tonight in Southeast Portland, City Commissioner Sam Adams will announce his candidacy for mayor (5:30 at Roots Brewing in SE Portland).
But that’s not why I met up with him for an interview on Tuesday.
Surprisingly, even though we’ve seen each other a countless meetings and events over the past two years, we’ve never spoken for more than a few sentences here and there.
It was good to finally sit down and hear what he had to say about how bikes figure into the future of our city.
You know a town is bike-crazy when an FM music radio station broadcasts their bike plan and makes a statement that calls for the city to get “bolder for bicyclists.”
stolen from NE 17th Ave and NE Alberta, Portland OR
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