This week’s Monday Roundup is sponsored by BikeCraft, Portland’s cycle-centric holiday gift fair that’s coming up November 30th – December 1st at the Lloyd Doubletree (1000 NE Multnomah).
Portland embraces inaugural Bridge City CX event
(See full gallery here)
(Photos © J. Maus)
“This feels quite a bit bigger than bike racing. This is an event for the city and for Sellwood.”
— Erik Tonkin, race organizer
Portland’s cyclocross season ended with a bang on Sunday as our community embraced an exciting new venue and event. Bridge City CX was truly an instant classic.
560 racers signed up for a challenging and fun course many said was the best they’d ever ridden. There were slippery s-turns, fast straightaways, and long sections of deep sand on the Willamette riverfront. Toward the end of the day the tide pushed up and left racers with just a few inches of dry sand.
Open Men 1/2/3 winner Carl Decker, a veteran pro who’s raced bikes all over the world, said after his race that, “This was as good as any course I’ve ridden. It was quintessential ‘cross.”
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Community steps up for inaugural Bridge City CX
Just about the only thing better than the recent announcement of a new cyclocross race at a close-in venue this coming Sunday (11/24) is to see how the community has come together to help make it great.
The response to this new race has been huge.
Comment of the Week: A powerful critique of the Portland Freight Committee
“Time [the Portland Freight Committee] was sent packing or at least reconfigured”
— Lenny Anderson
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
My visit to the Portland Freight Committee (PFC) earlier this month led to an interesting revelation: Turns out, members of this influential committee think the use of large freight trucks on North Lombard should be prioritized above everything else. To say the committee is skeptical of the Oregon Department of Transportation’s plan to remove two driving lanes to make room for a bike lanes and other updates is an understatement.
Reader Lenny Anderson took notice.
Lenny knows a thing or three about how freight advocacy works in this town. Before retiring in 2013, he spent 13 years improving access to-and-from the industrial district on Swan Island (home to UPS, FedEx, and others). Known to many as “Mr. Swan Island,” one reason Lenny was so good at his job is that he understood the way to move more freight was to encourage bicycling and transit use and remove as many single-occupancy automobile users as possible. “Every two people that ride down here is a semi!” he once said.
City releases plan to double bike use in northwest Portland
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Weekend Event Guide: Zwift demo, Cranksgiving, Bridge City CX and more
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Time to get your plans in order for the weekend.
Council moves PGE’s central eastside “Mobility Hub” forward
Sun sets on Cyclocross Crusade season at Sauvie Island (Photo Gallery)
(All images © Drew Coleman / Drew Coleman Media Haus)
ODOT defends North Lombard safety project against freight committee concerns
“You’ve got a major freight street here, and again, major freight streets are being turned into multimodal parkways. I don’t understand that.”
— Portland Freight Committee member
Opinion: Riding a bike in Paris and the future of carfree lanes in Portland
(Photo: J. Maus/BikePortland)
It’s time for bike, e-mobility, and transit riders to team up against the real enemy. With the Rose Lane project underway and e-bikes on the horizon, Portland should consider more carfree lanes.
– A guest opinion from Portland resident Henry Miller