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Job: Bike Tour Guide/ Rental Shop Position – Cycle Portland

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Job Title
Bike Tour Guide/ Rental Shop Position

Company/Organization
Cycle Portland

Job Description
Cycle Portland is a Bike Tour and Rental company located in Old Town. We provide guided rides around the city and also out to the Columbia Gorge and Oregon Wine Country. These tours focus on different themes, including Portland History, Local Microbreweries, Food Carts, and Bike Culture. We have a full service and repair shop where we rent bikes out and lead the tours from on NW 2nd Ave.

This position includes greeting customers, preparing bikes for them to ride, leading them around the city on prepared routes while stopping occasionally to share information about Portland. This position also includes renting bikes to visitors from all over the world to explore on their own and outfitting them with maps, bike route advice, and a sweet whip to cruise the city with. We also sell bike parts and accessories, so helping patrons select what they need and ringing them up at the register is part of the job duties.

Some bike mechanical know how is required because you have to be able to adjust bikes to fit people and fix a flat if you were to get one while out on the ride.
Other requirements include Customer Service skills, retail experience, a genuine desire to work with the public, and a strong outgoing personality.

Do you like to host visiting friends by taking them around the city? Are you passionate about cycling in Portland? Are you knowledgeable about Portland enough to give directions and willing to learn more about the city? Do you have Guiding experience or a knack for storytelling/ improv?

This position is seasonal with a possibility of staying on year round.

How to Apply
If interested please send a resume to info@portlandbicycletours.com with a paragraph about why you would a be good fit for the position. Thank you.

Job: Bicycle Service & Salesperson – Bike N’ Hike Milwaukie – FILLED

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Job Title
Bicycle Service & Salesperson

Company/Organization
Bike N’ Hike Milwaukie

Job Description
Bike N’ Hike’s Milwaukie location is now looking to hire a bicycle superstar to work on our sales floor and to assemble new bicycles.
Work is part-time with the potential to become full time as the season progresses.

Ideal candidates should be punctual, amiable people with a love of bicycles and previous shop experience.
Weekend availability is required!

Compensation based on experience.

How to Apply
To apply, bring a resumé to

Bike N’ Hike
15080 SE McLoughlin Boulevard
Milwaukie, OR 97267

www.bikenhike.com

Job: Bicycle Mechanic – Clever Cycles

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Job Title
Bicycle mechanic

Company/Organization
Clever Cycles

Job Description
We are hiring for a full-time, non-seasonal position in our service department. We are Portland’s first and largest bicycle shop devoted entirely to bicycles as primary transportation, and are looking for ambitious, energetic candidates with personal qualities appropriate to key roles in our growing, trend-setting shop.

Requires previous training or employment in the bicycle industry. You must be willing to learn to work efficiently on the latest city, cargo & family bicycle technology. Our shop does not focus on sport & recreation, but instead on A to B basics like internal hub gearing, dynamo lighting, electric assist, and child seats on bicycles made of metal.

All candidates must be outgoing, with excellent customer service skills and attention to detail. You must be willing to work weekends.

We provide a fun, often fast-paced work environment with commitment to a sustainable life-work balance. Staff receive competitive wages with a generous employee discount.

How to Apply
Please email hr@clevercycles.com with your resume and a few words about your interest, or drop by to introduce yourself.

Sewer project will impact biking on N Williams Ave for two months

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The Portland Bureau of Environmental Services says a sewer project starting today on N Williams Ave will impact bicycling conditions for the next two months.

The project is on Williams between Fargo and Cook and the construction zone will be active from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm each day.

Below is a map and description the project (download full PDF here). Please be advised…

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The Monday Roundup: Ice bikes in Buffalo, bike-friendly jeans for women & more

This week’s Monday Roundup is brought to you by the Ride the Heart of the Valley Bike Ride. Set for April 18th, this ride is a benefit for the Oregon State University College of Veterinary Medicine and the Boys and Girls Club of Corvallis.

Here are the bike-related links that caught our eyes this week:

Ice bikes: Hot idea in a very cold Buffalo winter.

Bike pants: Levi’s has introduced the first female cuts of its ‘Commuter’ jeans line which is specially made for bike riders.

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Comment of the Week: The hidden political cost of neighborhood greenways

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Michigan Avenue in North Portland.
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)

In the parts of Portland where neighborhood greenways exist, they’re the most pleasant way to get around. Installing them is cheap, fast and politically popular because (other than the occasional traffic diverter) they basically bother nobody.

After its biking advocates spent much of the 2000s trying and failing to build meaningful networks of protected bike lanes on commercial streets, Portland rolled out 40 miles of comfortable connected neighborhood greenways and (as we shared in Monday’s roundup) rightly earned them a spot among Streetfilms’ 10 global best practices for street design.

But, as reader CarsAreFunToo showed in a comment on Thursday’s post about speed enforcement on high-crash corridors, they also seem to come with a big indirect political cost.

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Half of Portland car2go vehicles now have rear bike racks

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After a member survey found huge overlap between car2go users and bicycle users in Portland, the carsharing service car2go has now added rear bike racks to half of its 500-car local fleet.

Portland is the first city to get the racks, which are set up in such a way that the rear tailgate of the car2go can’t open on cars that have the racks. (The rear window, however, can still be opened.)

This decision was announced in December, following a successful trial and pilot period with 30 racks scattered through the fleet, car2go announced that it was moving up to 50 percent of its cars.

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Clackamas County launches survey to guide their new bike map

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Even if you carry a smartphone, there are still a few times when paper does some jobs best. One of those times is the middle of a bike trip.

Clackamas County is updating their Bike It! map and has launched a web survey this month to get advice on what the new version should offer.

Last year, we wrote about the county’s virtual open house to gather information about the best routes through the county to bike in. In this related effort, the county is working to figure out how best to convey route and destination information.

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Bill in Salem would let safety cameras nab speeders on high-crash streets

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The City of Portland’s 10 high-crash corridors: Barbur, Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, Burnside, Sandy, Marine, 82nd, 122nd, Powell, Foster and Division.
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Portland’s 10 high-crash corridors would be dotted with radar cameras that automatically detect excessive speeding, under a proposed law due for its first public hearing on Monday.

House Bill 2621 would apply only to the City of Portland, and only on streets with crash rates more than 25 percent higher than other streets with the same speed limit.

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Oregonian editorial calls on city to ‘reconsider its bike ban’ in River View

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River View Natural Area, looking north.
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The City of Portland’s defensive legal move to ban mountain biking in Southwest Portland’s River View Natural Area is an unfair breach of trust with mountain bikers, according to The Oregonian’s editorial board.

“River View, where cycling has occurred for years, remained the best city option for serious, if limited, mountain bike trails,” the newspaper wrote in a scathing editorial published online Wednesday. “To that end, cyclists attended meetings, participated enthusiastically in the public process upon which Portland places so much emphasis and trusted the city to act in good faith. The city did not.”

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