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Year: 3010
Brand: Caffery
Model: Dragonfly
Color:gray
Stolen in Portland, OR
Stolen:2013-04-15
Stolen From: Downtown pdx
Neighborhood: goose hollow
Owner: steven james
OwnerEmail: stjames( atsign )gmal.com
Description: Gray full carbon frame, carbon spoke mavic rims. Shimano deora. Carbon fenders. Yellow caffery decal
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Year: 2010
Brand: Klein
Model: Quantum
Color:Green and Purple
Stolen in Tigard, OR 97223
Stolen:2013-11-24
Stolen From: This was stolen from my home in Tigard Oregon.
Neighborhood: Progress Ridge
Owner: Ryan Burr
OwnerEmail: ryanwburr(AT)gmail.com
Description: My Klein bike is a quantum carbon race. It’s green and purple and changes between those colors based on the lighting conditions.
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike
Year: 1980s
Brand: Free Spirit
Model: Small ladies step through
Color:green
Size:step through small
Stolen in Portland, OR 97217
Stolen:2013-11-23
Stolen From: detached garage
Neighborhood: North
Owner: Bryn Dearborn
OwnerEmail: dearborns( atsign )gmail.com
Reward: 50
Description: Green free spirit, step thru style. Small ladies. Bike rack attached.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: T13011992
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Year: 1998
Brand: Marin
Color:Silver
Size:700CC
Stolen in Portland, OR 97217
Stolen:2013-11-23
Stolen From: Detached garage
Neighborhood: North
Owner: Bryn Dearborn
OwnerEmail: dearborns(replace with at sign)gmail
Description: Silver Marin Hybrid with bike rack
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: T13011992
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Year: 1997
Brand: Lemond
Model: Buenos Aires
Color:Red
Size:54cm
Stolen in Portland, OR 97202
Stolen:2013-11-10
Stolen From: My garage, SE 12th and SE Pershing Street (estimated date of theft)
Neighborhood: Brooklyn
Owner: Cheryl Willson
OwnerEmail: cjwillson@gmail.com
Reward: Yes
Description: The bike had a Serfas Saddle circa 1997. It had a wide/female cut and the top was kevlar, I think. I definitely didn’t have a leather look. Time pedals. Really short stem. Narrow handle bars.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 1398899
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Job Title
Sales/Bike Builder
Company/Organization
Universal Cycles
Job Description
We are looking for a candidate that has a vast bicycle knowledge. Experience in the industry is a plus, but not a requirement. The ideal candidate will be full of energy and have a TEAM mentality. This position will be a little bit of everything that we do here at Universal. We have ten shop cats, so the candidate should like cats. The position is full time. The schedule is Sunday 10:00-6:30PM. Mon-Thur 3:30PM till Midnight. We like a clean shop, so candidate shouldn’t mind cleaning restroom. We are a team here, managers clean too!
-We offer high wages for qualified candidates.
-Medical after 90 days.
-Paid vacation is one week after an year, and 2 weeks after 3 years.
– 3 paid sick days.
-Paid closed days for our business are New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
– We are a locally owed business that takes pride in providing a great job for great employees!
How to Apply
Please apply in person and ask for Meiko, Brad, Mary, or Jason.
Portland’s northernmost downtown bridge will be closed for repairs Sunday, blocking auto, bike, skate and streetcar traffic alike.
Here’s the county’s press release:
The Broadway Bridge will be closed to motor vehicles and sidewalk traffic on Sunday, November 24 from 7:30 a.m. until as late as 5 p.m. while crews make a repair to the lift span. The work will require the drawbridge to be in the open position much of the day. The closure will not impact river traffic.
TriMet’s 17-Holgate/Broadway bus route will detour to the Steel Bridge while the Broadway Bridge is closed. The Steel Bridge is also the best alternate crossing for bicyclists and pedestrians.
Welcome to the first of a new feature on BikePortland: a brief look at the life or work of an extraordinary local person.
When Jim Howell was 37, he organized the first demonstrations that eventually turned Harbor Drive into Waterfront Park. At 40, working as an independent architect, he drew up the design for Northeast Portland’s Woodlawn Park. At 41, he sat on the citizens’ committee that recommended Portland’s first MAX line. At 48, while working for TriMet, he engineered the west-side bus node now known as Beaverton Transit Center. At 51, he co-founded a private van service between Portland and the Oregon coast, a predecessor to today’s Wave bus. At 77, he co-created the plan that became the most prominent alternative to the Columbia River Crossing.
Now, two months before his 80th birthday, Howell has designed his first transportation concept that puts bikes front and center.
The latest twist in America’s effort to retrofit our auto-oriented infrastructure so that it’s suitable for cycling comes from Boston. That city hs deployed what’s being called “super sharrows” or “sharrows on steroids.” Here’s a blurb about them from a story published in the Boston Globe on Wednesday:
I first noticed the markings last week while driving through Allston Village. Running down the right-hand lanes on both sides of Brighton Avenue are bike-priority icons, known as “sharrows” in cyclist parlance, hugged by two sets of dashed lines along either side that make the lane look more like an airport runway.
My first thought: Sharrows on steroids!
And Boston bike czar Nicole Freedman said that’s exactly what they are. (Well, except that the former Olympic cyclist wasn’t too happy about the doping analogy.) Officially, the markings have a more dignified name: Priority shared-lane markings.
After raising over $50,000 in a successful Kickstarter campaign last month, the folks behind the Bike Index are wrapping up a five-city West Coast tour tonight in Portland. To celebrate the launch of their new national bike registry, they’re hosting a party tonight at The Lumberyard Indoor Bike Park (2700 NE 82nd Ave).
If you haven’t heard about the Bike Index, it’s humbly described as “an open source bike registry to fight bike theft and save the world.” The site is based in Chicago and its goal is to get more people to register their bikes before they’re stolen. Since the existing National Bike Registry charges a fee and uses outdated technology, few people actually use it. To encourage more widespread registration, the Bike Index crew has made their tool open-source, free to use and mobile-friendly. They also partner up with bike shops and other bike organizations to get bikes registered at the point of sale.
Here’s their promo vid:
This is a guest article by Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman.
This year’s PARK(ing) Day has come and gone, but to those who had a hand in the event or just took advantage of the day-long parklet on SW Stark, it was a happy memory and an example of what a public space can truly be in Portland. It was a day filled with friendly conversations, strangers uniting over a game of ping-pong, and citizens enjoying a place to work or eat their lunch. For me, I consider it a great accomplishment, and passing the street today seems bleak by comparison.
Last week we wrote that “biking and walking safety should be a bipartisan issue.” Today we got a reminder that it still is — and just how rare such issues are recently.
On the same day the Senate recut its rules to fit the current slash-and-burn politics of Washington, Politico published a profile of U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Portland), puzzling over how one of the House’s most liberal members got two Republicans to cosponsor his bill to ensure that bike safety is officially one of the ways to measure a federal road project’s success.