Robert Pickett.(Photo © J. Maus) Robert Pickett is a member of the Portland Bicycle Advisory Committee, an Alice Award nominee, a regular commenter and contributor to the Forums here on BikePortland.org, and he’s also a Portland Police Officer. Formerly a member of the Southeast Bike Patrol Unit, he now coordinates that unit along with being … Read more
A tall biker shares a stunt during a post-wedding bike parade in June.(All photos © Jonathan Maus) To say 2007 was a big year for bikes in Portland would be a vast understatement. New laws were pushed through the legislative process in Salem, our concerns reverberated through City Hall, the local bike economy gained national … Read more
Police Officer Robert Pickett(File photo © Jonathan Maus) Police Officer Robert Pickett passes on the news that thew newly formed Southeast Precinct Neighborhood Enhancement Team, with help from the SE Precinct Bicycle Patrol, has uncovered a stash of stolen property. “The loot” he says, includes nine “well-loved bicycles”. Unfortunately, when he ran the serial numbers, … Read more
Kloeppel’s fork for sale on eBay. Back in December, someone broke into Mike Kloeppel’s Woodstock neighborhood home and stole four of his “irreplaceable” high-end bikes. A few months later Southeast Precinct police officers recovered two of them. Fast forward to a few weeks ago. Out of the blue Kloeppel got a call from someone in … Read more
It’s been way too long since I last shared a stolen bike recovery story, so I was very pleased to get a call last week from local theft victim Michael Kloeppel. Back in December, Michael lost his entire fleet of beloved, high-end bikes when thieves hit his Woodstock home.
This disturbing account of a car-bike collision on Swan Island was reported by the victim yesterday in the Portland Bike Forums: [Location of the crash.]Click for Google Map. “On January 2nd, I was riding home from work at 5:15p.m. and was was struck by a Jeep Wrangler pulling out from a stop sign. The driver … Read more
[Erik Tonkin] Sometimes, you just gotta wait for it. Here’s the situation… When I was out of town racing the other weekend, I heard that back home my pal Jeffrey was sick and couldn’t race. He’d trained well at our Thursday early morning ‘cross practice, and he was excited for the weekend’s two races, neither … Read more
From the Oregonian News Blog: Milwaukie police are searching for a vehicle that hit a bicyclist about 7:40 p.m. Tuesday on Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard just north of River Road (Google map) and kept going. The 18-year-old male bicyclist from Oregon City suffered minor injuries.
[Hey! That’s my bike!] The other day I got a phone call from a reader in distress. He found his wife’s bike for sale on Craigslist. He was sure it was her bike, but he wasn’t sure how to proceed. I didn’t really have a good answer for him so I asked Officer Robert Pickett … Read more
You might have noticed that I just posted 72 stolen bike listings. Sorry for the onslaught (especially those of you that read via my RSS feed) but I can explain everything. But before I do, check out this video clip from FOX News (KPTV) that aired a few days ago. It features an interview with … Read more
[Recovered from the scene]Photo: Vancouver PD Our friends to the North need our help in finding a vehicle that was involved with a hit-and-run yesterday. The victim is a seven year-old boy and the accident happened in the 3700 block of NE 132nd Ave in Vancouver, just east of I-205. According to official reports there … Read more
[Update: The Police Bureau has just debuted their new web page for bike safety and theft info.] [Recovery number 15!] This week has been good and bad for bike theft. First the bad news. In the last 7 days there have been 39 new stolen bike listings (I haven’t published them all yet). That’s a … Read more
Comment of the Week: Real talk about building bikeways in east Portland