King Creamery adds ice cream to Portland’s bevy of bike-delivery businesses
For $24 a month, you can now be a member of King Creamery’s Ice Cream Club.
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Wilsonville company promises ‘perfect shifting’ from phone app and hardware combo
The rising tide of products that combine physical objects with mobile apps has come to do-it-yourself bike maintenance.
Bike-powered grocery delivery service aims for major expansion
The Lents-based nonprofit home-delivers $20 worth of organic produce to its customers each week.
This $50 device could change bike planning forever
Do bikes count? They could.
Portland’s pedal-powered street library blooms into a beloved institution
“This year everybody has been reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I just cannot keep him in there.”
For Portland startup Project 529, fighting bike theft is just the beginning
A team of Portlanders has spent the last year quietly building what might be the country’s most ambitious bike-specific software company.
SprocketFly.com creates a web platform for bike-repair housecalls
Portland is great at delivering things by bike: flowers, beer, plumbing. A new company wants to be a platform for delivering … bike repairs.
COG Space will offer co-working space and services for bike-related startups
Dave Hoch is also hosting an unconference next week designed to bring together bike-interested people of all sorts.
Why use bikes for business? Two Portlanders share their stories
Two more bike-based businesses. Recently I’ve learned about two more Portland businesses that have made bicycles an integral part of their business. Crank Roasting is a new coffee company and Co-Creative Pruning has been in business since 2010. I asked the owners of both businesses to share more about what they do and why they’ve … Read more
Three new bike-based businesses spring up
I’m happy to have three more bike-based businesses to introduce you to. Two of them are food-related, and we’ve got yet another service-related bike business (to add to the plumber, landscaper, general contractor, couriers, and others!). Momo Cart Momo Cart is a food cart run out of a bike trailer that sells Nepalese steamed dumplings. … Read more
Catching up with Portland’s ‘Builder by Bike’
Chris Sanderson, a general contractor who works by bike, has had a successful first year in business.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Back in February, I introduced you to Chris Sanderson, a licensed general contractor who runs his entire business from a cargo bike with a trailer attached. In an industry where big trucks are the norm, … Read more
New mobile bike repair business, ‘Rolling Wrench’, opens for business
Another bike-based business has set up shop on the streets of Portland. Rolling Wrench, “Portland’s bike shop on wheels,” is a mobile bicycle repair business and brainchild of Tim Ennis. Tim is a veteran of several bike shops whose independent streak left him wanting to go out on his own. “I’ve worked for various bike … Read more