🚨 Please note that BikePortland slows down during this time of year as I have family in town and just need a break! Please don't expect typical volume of news stories and content. I'll be back in regular form after the new year. Thanks. - Jonathan 🙏

Weekend Event Guide: Diablo, grillin’, a century, the hour record and more

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You’ll be smiling too when you discover the beautiful Clackamas County roads featured on Saturday’s Pioneer Century.
(Photo J Maus/BikePortland)

This menu of delicious rides and events is lovingly brought to you by our friends at Hopworks Urban Brewery.

Well hello there beautiful! (I’m talking to the weather, not you. Sorry. But you’re beautiful too!)

The sun will be out with a vengeance for this first bike weekend of Pedalpalooza* and I hope you are able to take advantage of it. But if you think the big, three-week bike fun fest is the only game in town this weekend, thing again. You’ll find a few tasty morsels in this week’s guide that you won’t find on the Pedalpalooza calendar.

*Pedalpalooza note! From this Friday to Sunday alone there are over 40 rides on the calendar. I’ve chosen just one ride from each day for this week’s guide, so please check out the full official schedule on the Shift website.**

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Job: Receiving Manager – Velotech, Inc. – FILLED

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Sorry, this job has been filled. Browse more great jobs here. Job Title *
Receiving Manager

Company/Organization *
Velotech, Inc

Job Description *
Function of Position:
Supervises and coordinates the activities of workers engaged in verifying and keeping records on incoming shipments, and preparing items to be warehoused. Studies shipping notices, bills of lading, invoices, orders, and other records to determine receiving priorities, work assignments, and receiving methods required to meet receiving schedules.
Responsibilities:
• Manage receiving work flow, priorities, and standards
• Enforce a culture of safety
• Allocate labor resources to achieve daily and long term work initiatives
• Maintain and process timecards for receiving and qc staff
• Answer all ADP requests for your reports
• New staff hiring and training
• Check deliveries for any damage and clearly document and follow up on any damage found
• Contact vendors to resolve any shipping discrepancies
• Accurately identify and receive items into inventory system with correct pricing
• Bag and tag product as needed
• Maintain a clean and organized workspace and maintain supply levels
• Provide standard setting operational expertise as needed
Experience:
2+ years warehousing management / receiving experience. Proficient in MS Word, Excel, and data entry. Proficiency in written and spoken English.
Education:
BA/BS or commensurate experience.
Special Requirements:
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Must wear closed toe shoes at all times in warehouse
• Be able to lift 25 lbs. overhead without assistance
• Stand for long periods of time on concrete in warehouse
• Sit for long periods of time doing clerical work
• Bike product knowledge preferred but not mandatory
• Strong knowledge of Inventory Management systems

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship, pregnancy or veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

How to Apply *
Send your Cover Letter and Resume to Jobs@velotech.com

Three blocks of NE 15th/16th in Lloyd to get major walking and biking upgrade

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The 15th/16th curve before any changes.
(Image: Google Street View)

The divided four-lane street that runs between the Holladay Park Plaza senior-housing skyscraper and the Lloyd Center Mall is about to get a lot easier to cross.

For most of the distance between Northeast Multnomah and Halsey streets, two of the four current general travel lanes on Northeast 15th/16th will be converted to massive five-foot-wide cross-hatched buffers. The bike lanes, meanwhile, will be widened from five feet to seven. Finally, a zebra crosswalk and median refuge will also be added between the Holladay Park Plaza tower, just east of 15th/16th, and the mall parking lot, just west.

The link is significant to the city’s biking network because the rapidly developing Lloyd District currently offers no low-stress biking connections between the Multnomah Street protected bike lane and the neighborhoods to the north, including the commercial district on Broadway and Weidler.

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The Ride: Exploring Barney Reservoir and rugged timber roads west of Forest Grove

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Many roads like this beckon adventure seekers just miles west of downtown Forest Grove.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)

This ride recap is sponsored by 21st Avenue Bicycles. They’ve stepped up to bring you more coverage of the great bike adventures that await right outside your door. Stay tuned all year long as we explore the best backroads and bikepacking spots in Portland and beyond.

Nearly everyone who rides around these parts knows about Hagg Lake and the beautiful road that winds around it in the hills west of Forest Grove. But did you know there’s another body of water a bit further west that’s also worth checking out on your bike — especially if you love exploring forests and logging roads?

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Bike-based ‘Street Books’ library will expand thanks to bike shop’s donation

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Street Books founder Laura Maulton talks with two patrons.
(Photo: M.Andersen/BikePortland)

Street Books, Portland’s five-year-old free private book-lending library, will be spending more time on Portland’s east side this summer.

Splendid Cycles, the cargo bike store at the north end of the eastside’s Springwater on the Willamette path, will donate a new, fully built-up Bullitt cargo bike, and Jeff Lauten of Badger Bikes will donate a handbuilt water-tight box to match.

Street Books, which we profiled last summer, launched its fifth lending season on Tuesday.

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Traffic enforcement action uncovers rampant law-breaking on SE Powell

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Police wrote up 60 violations in less than four hours at this location last week.
(Photo J. Maus/BikePortland)

Illegal and dangerous behaviors are rampant on the streets of Portland. Most of us who use the streets are keenly aware of this, but every time the Bureau of Transportation does a crosswalk enforcement action we see the problem even more clearly.

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‘Urgent’ safety meeting ends with lots of talk, no clear course of action

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BTA Executive Director Rob Sadowsky (L), Mayor Hales and Commission Novick listen during yesterday’s meeting.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)

After weeks of tragedy, protests, and public pressure that has followed a spate of collisions involving bicycle riders, Portland Mayor Charlie Hales and City Commissioner Steve Novick hosted a meeting at city hall yesterday to discuss how to make our streets safer. The meeting was followed by a press conference which was beamed live by several local TV stations.

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My opinion: Protests, politics, and progress?

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May was a tumultuous month for Portlanders who care about safe streets. There have been tragic losses, protests, calls for reform and the early signs of progress. For me (and I’m sure others) it was a bit of a déjà vu.

My mind keeps going back to that sad October of 2007 when we suffered the loss of two people — and very nearly a third — in less than three weeks. The sequence of events was very similar. The collisions were followed by despair and anger and then action. We flooded the streets and grassroots activists sprung up to push the dialogue. Then, only after public pressure built a strong political foundation, electeds and other power-brokers stepped-up and engaged.

For the current Portland city council, that time for engagement is long overdue. Ever since running his mayoral campaign as the anti-Sam Adams, Charlie Hales has seemed to actively avoid the “b” word (bikes) out of fear that its mere mention would rile stakeholder groups and the media. And Transportation Commissioner Steve Novick has followed suit.

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Your guide to summer bike camps for kids

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Summer means bike camp for the little ones.
(Photo J. Maus/BikePortland)

Whether it’s doing Sunday Parkways or just riding to the store or a friend’s house, biking is a huge part of summer for many Portland families. So are summer camps. Fortunately you can combine the two and enroll the kid in your life in one of several bike-focused camps.

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Six days after man dies crossing SE Chavez, his ghost bike memorial is mangled too (UPDATED)

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(Photo: Josh Chernoff)

The white bicycle memorial to recent Reed College graduate Mark Angeles, 22, was wrecked late Monday or early Tuesday, apparently by the wheel of a motor vehicle.

The collision tore through the flower bouquets that had been piled on the bicycle at the corner of Southeast Gladstone Street and Cesar Chavez Boulevard, leaving piles of stems and pedals behind.

Photos after the collision were shared by Josh Chernoff on his Twitter feed Tuesday morning. Chernoff said he lives next door.

“It would’ve been somebody going south on 39th and turning east on the Gladstone crossing over oncoming traffic,” Chernoff wrote in response to our questions. “I hate to say but it looks intentional. … It’s kind of hard to tell.”

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