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New logo unveiled today Commissioner Sam Adams held a press conference today to officially launch Flanders Crossing: Sauvie Island Bridge Relocation Project. The event was an attempt to clarify the proposal for the project that will be voted on by City Council next week, to outline why the the project is necessary, and to demonstrate … Read more
About 100 riders assembled at Colonel Summers Park for Bike Back the Night.More photos here – (Photos © J. Maus) The Portland Women’s Crisis Line — a non-profit that helps victims of sexual violence — held their first annual Bike Back the Night ride last night. The name of the ride is a spin-off of … Read more
TITLE: Vancouver BTA or Bike Alliance – organizing for advocacy in the Couv! DATE: 23 April – Wednesday TIME: 5.30 PM to 6.30PM PLACE: Wallis Engineering, 215 West 4th St., Ste 200, Vancouver (2 blocks north of the I-5 bike trail head on Columbia) BIKE PARKING: Racks and poles outside on Fourth Street/ Columbia and … Read more
Paul Adkins and family (notice the kids in the trailer!) in Eugene.(Photo courtesy Paul Adkins)
New bike box on SW Madison at 3rd.(Photos © J. Maus) The City of Portland has installed two more green bike boxes and painted bike lanes; including the first one on the west side of the river. Today, crews finished a bike box and new painted bike lane at SE 11th and Hawthorne, just a … Read more
Lots of bikes at Sunnyside Environmental School in Southeast Portland.(Photos © J. Maus) The Portland-based Bicycle Transportation Alliance hopes that friendly competition is what will get more Portland schoolkids walking and biking to school. They’ve just opened registration for the first-ever Walk + Bike to School Challenge. The event, modeled after their highly successful Bike … Read more
Meet at North Park Blocks, NW 8th Ave & W Burnside St Celebrate Portland’s newest tradition. Ride will be leisurely & non-aggro. Attire is nekkid-casual. Q) Are you serious, or is this some sort of joke? A) Huh? Rest assured there’s nothing serious about riding nekkid through downtown rush hour. But ride nekkid we will! … Read more
(Photo © J. Maus) Billing it as an, “event to celebrate Portland’s new ‘Green Space’,” the City of Portland’s Office of Transportation has just announced details of a press event next week that will draw attention to their first installation of a series of bike safety improvements around the city. The event will be held … Read more
Start-up company BikeRacker will look to supply its temporary bike racks to local events and businesses. BikeRacker founder Jeff Castro.(Photo: Jeff Castro) Nearly every Portlander who goes by bike has experienced it: You get to an event (sometimes even a bike-related event) and there are not enough places to park. Or, the spaces that are … Read more
NAHBS founder Don Walker.(Photos © J. Maus) In a few hours, North American Handmade Bicycle Show founder Don Walker will make the announcement of where next year’s show will take place. Each year it is a closely held secret, but Walker has already already shared clues and has made it clear it won’t be in … Read more
No metal was safe from bikes at the NAHBS today.(Photo © J. Maus)
Bummer. The crowds here at the Oregon Convention Center have been thick all morning. So thick in fact that City of Portland Fire Marshall Michelle Coefield just told me that they can’t let anyone else in until people begin to leave. Just after 1:30 or so today Coefield said she was worried that the size … Read more