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Black Giant Seek 3 2009

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Year: 2009
Brand: Giant
Model: Seek 3
Color:Black
Size:Medium 56 Cm.
Serial: GK8M5358
Photo: http://i.imgur.com/ee9WS6j.jpg
Stolen in Portland, OR 97232
Stolen:2013-12-18
Stolen From: NE 21ST and Multnomah Portland, OR
Neighborhood: Sullivan’s Gulch
Owner: David Reiter
OwnerEmail: david.c.reiter(at sign)gmail.com
Reward: 50
Description: Bike has silver spiked pedals with toe clips. Has front and rear fenders. Armadillo Tires.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 13-105971
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Small Breezer Uptown Infinity 2012

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Year: 2012
Brand: Breezer
Model: Uptown Infinity
Color:Small
Size:black
Serial: IF01201617
Stolen in Portland, OR 97212
Stolen:2013-12-20
Stolen From: 3934 NE MLK Boulevard
Neighborhood: Close-in Northeast
Owner: Marti Frank
OwnerEmail: martifrank(replace with at sign)gmail.com
Reward: 100
Description: Smallish black womens’ step-through bike with orange detailing. Chain guard, fenders, back rack, lights, cup holder on handlebars.
Police record with: Portland PD
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Black Specialized Tricross X3 2013

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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

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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.

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Bike projects win big with Clackamas County tourism grants

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.

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Leah Treat appoints Greg Jones to PBOT deputy director position

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“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.”

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Black Kona Dew Drop 2010

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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

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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

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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.

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Biking the Big Easy: A guest series

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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

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