Portland’s former urban bike farmer releases new book
The author laid roots in a changing city.
Books and Zines
Elly Blue Publishing merges with Microcosm
One of the power couples of Portland biking has decided to formally join forces professionally, too.
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.”
With Hawaii expansion and a new book, bike-tour entrepreneur Todd Roll is on the move
Todd Roll of downtown-based Pedal Bike Tours has had a big spring.
NYT writer and ‘Life is a Wheel’ author Bruce Weber at Powell’s Books tonight
New York Times obituary writer Bruce Weber will discuss his new book, “Life is a Wheel” tonight at Powell’s City of Books.
Microcosm is latest bikey business to open on N Williams Avenue
The local bike-friendly bookstore that also happens to be one of the country’s largest zine distributors and publishers has grown again and joined the row of bike-friendly businesses on North Williams.
Radically sensible: 8 questions for Elly Blue, Portland’s pop bikenomist
Blue has organized years of observations about the economic benefits of biking into a 194-page book of deeply rational arguments that’s poised to make a splash.
Three local bike books to nab (and one to await)
Portland has been exporting its biking expertise for years, but the explosion of independent publishing is helping that happen faster than ever.
Book event tonight: A chronicle of life in Amsterdam, the ‘City of Bikes’
Pete Jordan, a former Portland resident who lived in Amsterdam for the past eleven years, has written a book about the experience. In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist (Harper Perennial 2013) came out a few days ago and Jordan is back in Portland tonight for a reading. Here’s more about … Read more
First look at ‘Biking Portland’ guide book
With the release of Biking Portland: 55 Rides from the Willamette Valley to Vancouver, anyone interested in discovering great rides in and around Portland has another excellent resource to turn to. Written by Alaska native Owen Wozniak and published by The Mountaineers Books, Biking Portland offers much more than cue sheets, maps, and ideas on … Read more
‘Hop in the Saddle’ party launches book with a bang
Goldsprints were a hit.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Velo Cult bike shop hosted a hoppin’ party last night as a huge crowd turned out to help launch the bike book: Hop in the Saddle: A Guide to Portland’s Craft Beer Scene, by Bike. There was a huge spread of food, the beer was flowing, the goldsprints … Read more
Elly Blue and Portland’s bike book boom
Elly Blue, publisher.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) These are boom times in the bike book publishing world. From big coffee-table books detailing the beauty of bike design, to guidebooks on where and how to ride and everything in between — the cycling renaissance in North America is being mirrored by an equally robust uptick in the … Read more