BikePortland

The Friday Profile: Brandon Rhodes, Lents’ new bike-powered grocer

Brandon Rhodes’ new business will deliver $20 in organic produce to Lents homes once a week.
(Photos by M.Andersen/BikePortland)

By 2020, Brandon Rhodes predicts and hopes, Lents will finally have a grocery store.

For now, it’s got him and his bike trailer.

Thirty years old, with six of them spent in the Lents intentional community he helped organize in 2008, this cussing Christian with a Ph.D in ministry is launching his first business: Rolling Oasis, a weekly produce delivery service that’s “ending the Lents food desert one bike ride at a time.”

Buffered Bike Lane with a bike symbol and arrow pointing forward

Want to work for one of the hottest local bike companies? How about getting your foot in the door of a highly respected local bike shop? Learn more about both of these opportunities posted to our Job Listings this week. Check out all the details via the links below…

Marketing Manager – Portland Design Works
Sales/Mechanic – Seven Corners Cycles

Conditions were tricky on the Hawthorne Bridge, with some people opting to walk their bikes.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)

What happens to all of Portland’s bike riders when the worst snow storm in years hits the area? I was curious too so I spent a few hours out there with my camera tonight.

Are all road users equally served by traffic advisories?

We think the words people use say a lot about their perspectives and priorities. That’s why I always enjoy reading traffic advisories and press releases from our local transportation agencies.

When it comes to severe weather warnings, I have communicated directly with both the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) and the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) that their statements should not ignore the fact that many people in this region ride bicycles in winter. Yes, even when it snows and rains.

So, with this week’s big snowstorm on its way, I sat back and waited to see how each agency would handle the inevitable bad weather road advisories. I’m happy to report, that while not perfect, both agencies have improved a lot in recent years! Let’s start with ODOT…

With funding just approved, this should be a reality by November.

The South Waterfront Greenway project got a much-needed boost from Portland City Council yesterday when commissioners voted to fund Phase 2 with $4.7 million from their System Development Charges account. The unanimous 4-0 vote (Mayor Hales was absent) came after a frank debate between Commissioner Novick, who voiced objections to the expenditure to former Parks & Recreation Commissioner Nick Fish and current Parks Commissioner Amanda Fritz.

Thanks to Hopworks for
making this feature possible.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to weather, most of the events below have been canceled or rescheduled. Please double-check before heading out.

Yes, the weather outside is frightful. There is cold, strong winds, snow and maybe even rain in the forecast for the next three days. Even so, there are still several big rides and events to help coax you out of your house and onto the streets (or a tavern, see below).

Like we do every Thursday (thanks to Hopworks Brewery!), here are the events worth paying attention to this weekend…

Saturday, February 8th

Bike Safety Benefit Show – 6:00 pm at Velo Cult (1969 NE 42nd Ave)

Cargo Bike Roll Call: Bronzeville edition

A Bronzeville resident at a local bike event last fall.
(Photo: Steven Vance.)

Can a Portland-brewed program that uses free events, maps and T-shirts to get people informed and enthused about biking and walking work on the inner south side of Chicago?

With the help of two experts from Portland’s top bike planning firm and two advocates in Chicago’s Bronzeville community, the City of Chicago is trying.

PBOT engineers, project staff, and advisory
committee members answered questions
at their Tuesday meeting.
(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland)

If all goes according to plan, your experience riding north on N Williams Avenue will be much different by the end of this summer. After a long and winding public process, PBOT is close to finalizing a design and going to construction on a significant re-design of Williams Ave between Weidler and Killingsworth. At a meeting Tuesday, city staff and members of the project’s stakeholder advisory committee shared details and answered questions on both the Williams project and a companion project that emerged as a priority during the public process — a neighborhood greenway on N Rodney.

Layer up and get out there!
(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland)

Riding in the cold or the wind isn’t too bad; but put them together, throw on a good chance of significant snowfall, and some folks here in Portland start to think twice about riding their bike to work.

Year: 2000
Brand: Trek
Model: 7000
Color:white
Stolen in Portland, OR 97239
Stolen:2014-02-4
Stolen From: Garage
Neighborhood: Healy Heights – Council Crest area
Owner: Douglas Golden
OwnerEmail: goldend(replace with at sign)easystreet.net
Reward: $100
Description: Trek 7000, white, purplish blue lettering, comfort seat, rear wheel rack, front fender, light mount on handlebars, tool bag under the seat
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 1410194

Cycle Oregon announces three rides for 2014, including new event

A cinematic theme to this year’s ride.

Cycle Oregon made several big announcements at their annual Kickoff Party that was held at the Portland Art Museum tonight.

In addition to their 27th annual Week Ride and their newer, family-oriented, Weekend Ride, there’s a brand new event aimed at a much more exclusive audience. “CO3” — which will be held June 19th through 24th — is billed as an “intimate” event that will be a way to “take your level of support for Cycle Oregon and its philanthropy even higher”. The ride will be limited to just 30 people, who will pay $3,000 each to take part.

Here’s more about CO3 from Cycle Oregon:

“… you’ll enjoy an intimate, high-end tour at the same time! This ride takes the CO experience and intensifies it in three ways: deeper community connections and impacts; more challenging routes; and amenities like farm-to-table meals and deluxe lodging. And you’ll even help choose a project that Cycle Oregon will donate $30,000 toward – from the proceeds of this ride.”

(Photos courtesy CCC.)

Northeast Portland’s nonprofit bike shop and biking-for-everyone advocacy group is welcoming some respected local bike believers onto its board of directors.

The new aditions represent more than half the organization’s leadership, and it happens to bring the gender split on the Community Cycling Center’s board to seven women and four men — an unusual ratio in a national bike advocacy movement where both the leadership and membership remain overwhelmingly male-dominated.

The Friday Profile: Brandon Rhodes, Lents’ new bike-powered grocer

Jobs of the Week

Riders brave severe winter storm (Photos)

Comparing language in winter traffic advisories from PBOT and ODOT

Council votes to spend $4.7 million on South Waterfront Greenway

Weekend Event Guide: Worst Day Ride, Winter Olympics, Salem gravel grinder and more

Saturday, February 8th

Chicago brings Portland’s bag of biking tricks to Bronzeville’s ‘Black Metropolis’

A closer look at Williams Ave and Rodney greenway plans

A cold and windy commute: Did you ride?

white Trek 7000 2000

Cycle Oregon announces three rides for 2014, including new event

Community Cycling Center names 6 new board members – 5 of them women

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