Megan’s stolen Surly.
It feels like all of Portland wants to help Megan Holcomb recover her stolen bike.
Talk of a disastrous earthquake got you down? Just keep on biking
People who bike together, stick together.
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Bikes won’t save you after the Big One, but the community built up around them just might.
There’s been a lot of unease in Portland since the publication of a fascinating yet gut-wrenching article in The New Yorker that laid out the impending Cascadia earthquake in excruciating detail.
After I read the piece, I was sort of numb for a while. Then my mind wondered (as if often does) and I started to ask the default question I ask myself around any seemingly intractable issue or policy, “How can bikes fix this?”
Industry Ticker: Ti Cycles marks 25 years with series of videos
Ti Cycles is celebrating 25 years in business. Davy Levy’s small company based in Portland’s northwest hills above Highway 30 is known for pushing the envelope in bike design. Levy is a legendary titanium specialist whose creations are perennial favorites at events like the North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS), the Oregon Manifest, and others.
To mark their silver anniversary, the crew at Ti Cycles plans to release a series of promotional videos, “highlighting the exciting and innovative history of Ti Cycles and heightening the brand’s image on the The Internet. Thus far, results are questionable, but the videos are pretty fun.”
Check the videos out below.
Track bikes stolen from Alpenrose: Let’s get them back!
Stephen McLaughry on his carbon fiber rig
that was stolen Monday night
that was stolen Monday night
About 1:30 am on Monday night thieves broke into a storage room at Alpenrose Velodrome and stole three high-end bikes.
The bikes were resting after one of their biggest events of the year — the Alpenrose Velodrome Challenge — which took place over the weekend.
KPTV covered the story and shared comments from the bikes’ owners who desperately need something to ride for important upcoming races. Here’s the video segment they aired last night:
5 takeaways from Portland Auditor’s report on red light camera program
Locations of red light cameras in Portland.
(Image from Audit Services Division)
(Image from Audit Services Division)
Industry Ticker: BlaqPaks turns to Kickstarter for PDX Carpet bags
Southeast Portland-based BlaqPaks — makers of fine backpacks, messenger bags, and more — want to offer a full line of products in the style of the iconic PDX Carpet. To do it, they’ve turned to Kickstarter.
For more info, read their press release below…
Reader Mail: New rider disappointed by ‘rude and dangerous other cyclists’
How can we promote polite pedaling?
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
It’s been a long time since we reached into the mailbag and pulled one out to highlight here on the Front Page.
Today’s email comes from Rachel J. She got in touch with us last week to share her impressions as a new rider:
Subject: New to biking, disappointed….
So I just started commuting to work. Its a 20 mile round trip commute, and I have never biked in a city before. I’m still getting used to the signs and routes. I read up on the laws, visited this site, got gear, maps and books. I consider myself as prepared as I could be for a new cyclist. I was worried about other cars, but I was not prepared for how rude and dangerous other cyclists would be.
Cully advocates focus on Latinos through families and community
(Rosaisela Portugal (L) and Lucia Llanos (R) during a presentation
at City Hall last week. Lale Santelices with the Community Cycling
Center (center) acted as interpreter.
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
at City Hall last week. Lale Santelices with the Community Cycling
Center (center) acted as interpreter.
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Para leer esta historia en español, traducio por Google, haga clic aquí.
At the Bureau of Transportation’s monthly “Lunch and Learn” sessions last week, I heard from Rosaisela Portugal and Lucia Llanos — two women working to get more people on bikes in the Cully neighborhood.
Portugal and Llanos are part of Andando en Bicicletas en Cully (ABC), a relatively new group that first came to life in 2009 but really got their feet beneath them in 2012.
Now, with several years of successful programs and rides under their belts, ABC seems to be hitting their stride. So much so, that leaders from the group like Portugal and Llanos are eager to spread the word and share what they’ve learned.
The secret history of Portland’s weirdest neighborhood
(Image: Oregon Historical Society)
This is the second in a three-part series. Read the first installment here.
For most of Portland’s history, the land we know today as the Lloyd District was best known for failure.
Holladay Park: named for a scoundrel who planted its trees and then gambled away his fortune. The state and federal buildings along Lloyd Boulevard: advance outposts of a government center that never arrived. And Lloyd himself: an oil multimillionaire who died all but cursing the city he’d fallen in love with 40 years before.
Portland firefighters saw through lock to rescue bike from would-be thief
Still from video. Watch it below.
The “jaws of death” have given a Portland woman’s bike new life.
Last week Erin Goldwater noticed someone had put a U-lock around her bike while she was at work — and she says it was done intentionally by a thief who planned to steal her bike. The incident occurred at NW 18th and Irving.
Here’s what happened, according to an email we got from Erin this morning:
Someone had locked their bike to the pole and to my bike. As I got closer, it was very obvious this was no accident. The other guy (I saw him while he was struggling to lock up his bike, but I was busy working so I couldn’t to go out and check on him) used a brand new tiny Kryptonite lock to secure his old, rusty, beat-up bike to mine. His bike was jammed up to mine yet there was an open bike rack 10 yards away. It was completely intentional.
PBOT hires communications chief and new ‘equity and inclusion’ manager
John Brady (L) and Zan Gibbs will assume major roles July 27th.
(Photos: Linkedin)
(Photos: Linkedin)
The Portland Bureau of Transportation has announced two major new hires: a Communications Director and an Equity and Inclusion Manager.
PBOT widens extremely narrow bike lane on SW 6th Avenue
It used to be a tight squeeze.
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Looks like I won’t have to feel sorry for the squished bike lane character on SW 6th anymore.