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Job: Customer Service / Mechanic – Everybody’s Bike Rentals

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Job Title

Customer Service / Mechanic

Company / Organization

Everybody’s Bike Rentals

Job Description

Our mission is to reconnect people to their natural sense of wonder and adventure. In short, helping people have awesome adventures on our rental bikes! To do so we need someone with excellent customer service skills and authenticity. We are committed to maintaining a healthy and vitalized workplace that seeks out opportunities for growth and innovation by evaluating our strengths and weaknesses.

Our team will thrive by having a strong work ethic, positive attitude, and problem solving skills. An ideal candidate will have mechanical aptitude ( shop experience is prioritized but not required ). A typical workday involves responding to rental requests online and in person, preparing specific needs for each reservation and maintaining the fleet.

Full and part time positions available ( 12-18 hours and 30-40 hours per work week ). Hours will buffer 30 minutes around shop open times from 10 am-3 pm with some flexibily. Weekend days a must with some exceptions. Pay is competitive with benefits. Thanks for considering us!

How to Apply

email Ryan Smith at pdxbikerentals@gmail.com

Trek Bicycle Portland gives $10,000 to three local nonprofits

Display for the donation contest at the Trek Bicycle Portland store downtown.
(Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland)

Trek Bicycle Corp has been a very welcome newcomer to Portland for three local nonprofit organizations. The bike industry behemoth purchased six Portland-area Bike Gallery stores back in January and re-opened them as Trek Bicycle Portland stores in mid-March.

To help support the local scene — and perhaps grease the skids of acceptance in a city often skeptical of national brands (especially one that faced public pressure last summer to cancel police bike contracts), Trek launched a “Change for Change” donation contest as soon as they opened.

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Job: Rails Developer – Ride with GPS

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Job Title

Rails Developer

Company / Organization

Ride with GPS

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced rails or other backend MVC framework developer to join our growing team of cyclists working to help riders go on better rides, more often. Our core API powering both our website and mobile apps is based on rails (with a healthy dose of microservices for good measure), and we are looking for an experienced engineer who can hit the ground running. While rails experience is not required, the right person should have extensive experience with high traffic or other complicated, highly available web sites written using a modern MVC framework like Rails, Django, etc. More details available here: https://ridewithgps.com/careers/rails_developer

How to Apply

Review the job description at https://ridewithgps.com/careers/rails_developer then email careers@ridewithgps.com with a cover letter (in email body is fine) and resume attached. Please include information on your relationship to cycling, mapping, technology or other relevant interests. We look forward to talking with you!

Better bike lanes confirmed for key stretch of ‘Dirty 30’

They call it “Dirty 30” for a reason!
(Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland)

Oregon’s Highway 30 is an extremely important part of the cycling network, so we watch very closely for any opportunity to make it better.

You might recall last fall when we shared a hopeful story about how the stretch of what many locals call “Dirty 30” for its often debris-filled bike lanes could see cycling upgrades as part of a major Oregon Department of Transportation repaving project.

Now we’ve gotten our first-ever look at plans that confirm what the bike lanes will look like…

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