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
Event Title: Winter Plastics reCYCLE Ride Date: Saturday, January 26, 2008 Time: The caravan leaves at Noon. Meeting Location: Mt. Tabor Sun Community School 5800 SE Ash St, Portland, OR 97215 Meet by the Rain Garden Destination: Floyd Light Middle School, 10800 SE Washington (east of HWY 205) It’s not that far away! Approximate ride … Read more
Professional road racing is coming to Portland.(Photos © Jonathan Maus) Event organizers with the Mount Hood Cycling Classic stage race, one of the premier professional road races on the West Coast, say the first two stages could be coming to Portland. Race director Brad Ross, the man behind the Cross Crusade and the Twilight Criterium, … Read more
(Photo © Jonathan Maus) If you ride your bike across the I-5 bridge between Portland and Vancouver you now have more than just a narrow and sketchy pathway to deal with. The Columbian reported Friday that ODOT is using cannon fire to scare off flocks of birds that congregate on the bridge. Here’s a snip … 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
Christopher Heaps The article below was written by Christopher Heaps. Heaps is a lawyer with Stoel Rives who has volunteered to carry out the “citizen-initiated citation” process (as outlined in ORS 153.058) to retroactively cite Lisa Wheeler (the woman who hit Siobhan Doyle at N. Interstate and Greeley back in October) for “failure to yield”. … Read more