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Join Commissioner Sam for breakfast on your bike

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bike to work day

See Sam cycle on Monday.
(Photo: Jonathan Maus)

City of Portland Transportation Commissioner (and possibly our future Mayor?!) Sam Adams wants you to join him for a special biker breakfast on Monday (9/24).

In the spirit of the Bike Commute Challenge (which they won in their category last year), Adams and his staff will set up a breakfast stop in North Portland on the corner of Vancouver and Russell from 7:30-9:00am.

Staffers say they’re on track to retain their title, but they want more company out in the bike lanes.

To try and entice more of you to join them (and to congratulate those of you already bike commuting), they’ll have free coffee (by Backbridge Coffee) and tasty treats (by Blue Gardenia Bakery).

Thanks Sam!

Stolen Specialized Globe Sport

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Specialized Black 49 inch Globe with silver aluminum front and back fenders with black stripe. Also has a black rack on back. Brand New, purchased from River City Bikes in August 2007.

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Stolen Scott Cyclocross Comp

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Scott Cyclocross Comp
52 inch
Frame: 7005 alloy
Fork: Scott carbon CX straight
Headseat: Ritchey OE Logic Zero
Derailleurs: Shimano
Tires: Ritchey ExcaVader Comp 700-35C

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Stolen Cannondale Saeco unknown

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Very similar to a 2003 R6000. Frame was red with Cannondale SI cranks (very unique). Custom build with complete Campy Record components (except cranks), handbuilt wheels (Mavic ceramic rims), red Salsa skewers, Speedplay X/1 pedals, Newton bars and stem, and Fizik Aliante seat on an Easton EC90 post.

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Off to Vancouver for VeloMutation…and more

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The B.C. Clettes-15

I’ll get to see the beautiful
B:C:Clettes on their home turf.
(Photo: Jonathan Maus)

In a few hours, Juli, the girls and I will pack into the mini-van and drive up to Vancouver BC for a weekend packed with bike events.

Starting tomorrow night, our sister bike culture city to the north launches three days of creative, frenzied, two-wheeled fun (anchored by a legendary bike party known as VeloMutation).

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Familiar faces take home national bike/ped awards

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BTA's Alice Awards and Auction

Former ODOT bike guy
Michael Ronkin won the
Lifetime Achievement Award.
(Photo: Jonathan Maus)

Local transportation experts made their mark at a recent awards event hosted by the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals. The APBP is a non-profit founded in 1995 that, “promotes excellence in the emerging professional discipline of pedestrian and bicycle transportation.”

The event was held in conjunction with the Walk/Bike California 2007 conference on the campus of UC Davis in Davis, California.

Of the five awards given out this year, three of the winners were names that will be familiar to regular BikePortland readers. They included:

Bike community helps out with Project Homeless Connect

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Volunteer Steven Kung helps fix a bike.
(Photo: Chris Smith)
See YouTube video recap below

Project Homeless Connect is part of an effort by the City of Portland to end homelessness. It’s mission is to, “provide an opportunity for the community to aid homeless people in receiving much needed services and support and for better understanding of this population’s needs.”

An important part of those “much needed services” is transportation. For many homeless folks, (like Bill and Allen), the bicycle is a perfect transportation solution.

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Local filmmaker takes bike porn on the road

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The Reverend Phil Sano is at it again, and surprise, it involves nakedness and bicycles; only this time, he’s taken it one step further.

You might be familiar with the term “bike porn” — it’s become a sort of slang for photos of gorgeous bikes — but trust me, this is something completely different.

After his Pornography of the Bicycle screened at the Clinton Street Theater in front of a shocked (yet appreciative) standing-room-only crowd during last Summer’s Pedalpalooza, he has decided to take his beguiling combination of sex and bikes on road.

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Officials respond to bike parking shortage at Lewis & Clark

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Bikes parked on Lewis
& Clark campus.
(Photo: Jonathan Maus)

The “problem” of not enough bike parking has reared its head at yet another place in Portland: Lewis & Clark College.

With growing bike use, a new school year, and the Bike Commute Challenge going full steam (L & C is a perennial front-runner in the 500+ employees category), bike parking at the small college nestled in Portland’s Southwest Hills is at a premium.

As a result, many students have taken to parking bikes anywhere they can; including inside the Templeton Campus Center. That’s a big no-no, according to the school’s Director of Transportation and Parking, Mark Morgan.

Last week he sent out an email to graduate students warning that bikes not locked to available racks would be subject to impound. I was forwarded a copy of that email and have pasted it below:

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