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Black Specialized Tricross X3 2013

Buffered Bike Lane with a bike symbol and arrow pointing forward

Year: 2013
Brand: Specialized
Model: Tricross X3
Color:Black
Size:52
Serial: WSBC602175612H
Stolen in Portland, OR 97205
Stolen:2013-12-20
Stolen From: It was stolen from in front of the US Bank Building (original) on 6th street between Stark and Oak, right outside one of the entrances to the bank.
Neighborhood: Downtown Portland
Owner: Peter Hand
OwnerEmail: plhand_2000(replace with at sign)yahoo.com
Reward: 100
Description: This was a four month old fully black Specialized Tricross bike with platform petals.
Police record with: Portland PD
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Folding e-bike company ‘Conscious Commuter’ out of cash, ceases operations

Concept drawing of the bike from the Conscious Commuter Facebook page.

Portland-based company Conscious Commuter has run out of money, ceased operations on December 16th, and is “in the process of winding up its affairs”. That news comes via an email sent to supporters by Gabriel Wartofsky, the company’s head designer and co-founder.

Conscious Commuter launched in June 2011 with plans to mass-produce a foldable electric bike in Portland. The concept was the marriage of Wartofsky’s design skills mixed with the entrepreneurial and business background of company President and CEO Bob Vander Woude. The company had been headquartered at One World Trade Center in downtown Portland.

Biking on and around Mt. Hood will get even better.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)

The Clackamas County Tourism & Cultural Affairs office has announced 10 projects that will split $200,000 in grant funding and seven of the projects support bicycle-related tourism. This news will surely continue the strong momentum for bike tourism in “Mt. Hood Territory” that we reported on back in July.

These tourism development grants are funded through Clackamas County’s 6% lodging tax which was passed by voters in 1992. It applies to all lodging receipts over $15 per day from county hotels, campgrounds, events, vacation home rentals, and other types of lodgings.

“She found someone she felt she could trust with day-to-day operation of the bureau and could have authority to act in her absence when she’s away. Greg knows this place from top to bottom like no one else.”
— Dylan Rivera, PBOT Communications Manager.

Six months after taking the helm of Portland’s transportation bureau, Director Leah Treat has appointed an agency veteran to take over several major responsibilities. Greg Jones, a planning and project management veteran who has worked for the City of Portland since 1980 is now the deputy director of PBOT. Treat made the appointment official earlier this month.

This is the first time PBOT has had a deputy director since it was formed in 1983. PBOT Communications Manager Dylan Rivera said via a telephone interview yesterday that the move is an acknowledgment of the immense task of managing “one of the largest and most complex bureaus in the City.” PBOT has over 700 employees and a $275 million (or so) annual budget that completes a diverse range of projects from a dizzying array of funding sources.

Back in November, Treat told The Oregonian that leading PBOT is a “big job” and that she’s “only one person.”

Looking for a great bike job opportunity up in Seattle? Bike Works Seattle posted something on our Job Listing you might be interested in. Check out more details via the link below…

Bike Mechanic Job Skills Training Project Coordinator – Bike Works Seattle

Year: 2010
Brand: Kona
Model: Dew Drop
Color:Black
Size:56cm
Serial: F902K4317
Photo: http://i.imgur.com/wKesqDf.jpg
Stolen in Portland, OR 97266
Stolen:2013-12-15
Stolen From: SE 102nd and Yukon
Neighborhood: Lents
Owner: John Notis
OwnerEmail: notisj(AT)gmail.com
Reward: yes
Description: Front and rear racks, gray Ortlieb handlebar bag, extra set of cross brake levers on the upper handlebars, Planet Bike fenders, blinker and seatpost bag.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 13-105120
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

white Trek Lexa 2011

Year: 2011
Brand: Trek
Model: Lexa
Color:white
Size:54
Serial:SWTU177C0133F
Stolen in PORTLAND, OR 97213
Stolen:2013-12-20
Stolen From: Safeway at NE 69th & Sandy
Neighborhood: Roseway
Owner: Kris Buckowski
OwnerEmail: kristie.buckowski@gmail.com
Description: Women’s specific Trek Lexa – white with black and red. Rear rack, front and rear fenders, SPd pedals
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 13-159661
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

grey Handsome Devil 2011

Year: 2011
Brand: Handsome
Model: Devil
Color:grey
Size:55
Photo: https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/18813_10102340607016708_1990693293_n.jpg
Stolen in Portland, OR 97210
Stolen:2013-12-20
Stolen From: NW Overton and 22nd
Neighborhood: Alphabet District
Owner: Diana Holland
OwnerEmail: holla@bikefarm.org
Reward: yes
Description: This is my touring bike. I built it myself last March.

Handsome frame and fork in "grandma’s ashes grey," 55cm, 2011 "Devil" model
avocet saddle

albatross handlebars
bar end shifters
custom spacer with brake cable stay by Bound Bikes

8 speed cassette
170mm black Shimano Deore xt crankset
shimano deore derailleur, too

schwalbe marathon tires
700c aluminum rims
front wheel is from a Long Haul Trucker

tektro brake levers
cantilever front and rear brakes
rack in the back

Just put a new chain on last week, too.

The frame is unmarked except for a sticker of "H" with a mustache, Handsome’s logo. I also put a Bike Farm sticker on it.

Thanks for keeping an eye out. She answers to Josephene.
Police record with: Portland Police Bureau
Police reference#: T13012780
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Novick asks Santa for $1.3 billion for streets and talks of new fee for infrastructure

Transportation Commissioner Steve Novick took his message about the city’s need for
transportation funding inside the Lloyd Center Mall on Thursday.
(Photo by M.Andersen/BikePortland)

Saying that “repetition, repetition, repetition” is the way to get the message to voters that Portland needs more money for street repairs and improvements, Transportation Commissioner Steve Novick held a press event Thursday to formally ask Santa for help.

“We know that people are tapped out, and it’s going to be a big lift to ask people for more money,” Novick said. “So we want to demonstrate in both serious and playful ways that we’re doing everything we can to avoid having to ask people for more money.”

So Novick stopped by Lloyd Center Mall Thursday to mail a letter to Santa Claus with a wishlist of $1.3 billion in street projects, about $1 billion of it for paving and maintenance and the rest for a combination of improvements to multimodal transportation and freight mobility.

Bikes are part of New Orleans’ rebirth.
(Photos by Erin Greeson)

Welcome to the first installment of a three-part series on bicycling and street culture in New Orleans by former Portlander and BikePortland contributor Erin Greeson. Erin currently lives in New Orleans.

Part I: Rebirth City

Intersection of SE Foster and 54th. A new proposal by PBOT would route
bicycle riders north at this location to use neighborhood streets in order to connect to SE 52nd Ave.
(Google streetview)

At a meeting of the Stakeholder Advisory Committee for the Foster Road Streetscape Plan last night, the Portland Bureau of Transportation rolled out a new proposal for how to connect the new bike lanes planned for Foster Road to the future bikeway planed on SE 52nd Ave.

PBOT’s proposal for Foster Road — to re-allocate lane space and provide six-foot bike lanes — disappointed some who wanted a more robust bike facility, but it has been met with a strong majority of support. In results of a survey (both online and from an open house earlier this month) released today (PDF), PBOT reports that about 78% of 437 respondents said they are “very supportive” or “supportive” of the cross-section.

View northbound on Mallory at Skidmore.
(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland)

Just before 9:00 pm last night a person riding a bicycle was involved in a collision in northeast Portland that resulted in what the Portland Police Bureau say are “non-life-threatening” injuries.

The bicycle rider (we’re awaiting confirmation of the gender) was taken to a local hospital for treatment. An early news alert about the collision stated that the person on the bicycle was knocked unconscious.

According to police, the collision took place at the intersection of NE Mallory and NE Skidmore. In a statement, the PPB say their preliminary investigation shows that the person in the car was driving eastbound on Skidmore “and struck the bicyclist” who was heading northbound on Mallory while attempting to cross Skidmore. The PPB statement also stated that, “There is a stop sign on Mallory at Skidmore.” Despite mentioning the stop sign, we haven’t yet heard if the PPB suspect that the person riding the bike failed to stop prior to the collision.

Black Specialized Tricross X3 2013

Folding e-bike company ‘Conscious Commuter’ out of cash, ceases operations

Bike projects win big with Clackamas County tourism grants

Leah Treat appoints Greg Jones to PBOT deputy director position

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PBOT unveils “compromise option” for Foster bike lane connection to 52nd

Bicycle rider hospitalized after northeast Portland collision

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