The Oregon Outback was the hardest — and best — ride I’ve ever done
One year ago I rode up central Oregon’s spine and I still get chills thinking about it.
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Advocate has near-death experience on Barbur, a street he’s pushing to make safer
One of Southwest Portland’s most fervent advocates for a safer Barbur Boulevard said Tuesday that he was nearly killed while biking on the street.
Hawthorne Bridge bike trips up just 0.4% in 2014
Over 1.7 million trips in 2014. (Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland) As of yesterday, there were 1,712,172 bicycle trips across Portland’s Hawthorne Bridge in 2014. That’s an impressive number — but it represents just a paltry 0.4 percent increase over last year’s total.
Truck driver does ‘rolling coal’ on riders, and one of them is a bike cop
Purposely spewing diesel exhaust fumes from your truck onto bike riders is all fun and games, until you unknowingly do it to an off-duty cop.
The Oregonian Editorial Board on Portland’s “risky bike share venture”
Surprise, surprise; The Oregonian Editorial Board is already against Portland Bike Share.
The good, the bad, and the ugly on the Oregon Coast Bike Route
Sunrise in Newport.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Last week I joined about 50 other folks for a ride down the Oregon Coast Bike Route. In six days of pedaling, we covered about 370 miles — most of it along the shoulder of Highway 101. This route isn’t just one of the premier cycle touring routes in … Read more
Ray Thomas on the unintended consequences of “ambiguous intersections”
What you see driving north on MLK Jr. Blvd at NE Going Street. Noted local lawyer, bike law expert, and veteran advocate Ray Thomas has penned a new article about what he feels is a safety issue at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd (MLK) and N Going Street. Thomas is known for … Read more
With six kids and no car, this mom does it all by bike
Biking with kids is all the rage in Portland these days, but biking with six kids between the ages of 2 and 11? That’s something I never would have thought possible before I met southeast Portland resident Emily Finch.
Portland’s coffee bike arms race (and other cargo bike news)
Peer into Portland’s flourishing cargo bike scene just over a decade ago.
Five year prison sentence handed down in hit and run that killed Dustin Finney
Go inside the courtroom as Finney’s grieving mother stared down the man who hit her son.
KATU investigates ‘Bike Path to Nowhere’ – UPDATED
Screen grab from KATU TV newscast.-Watch video below- On their 11 o’clock newscast last night, KATU-TV (ABC in Portland) aired a special ‘On Your Side’ investigation titled, Bike Path to Nowhere. The segment focused on the buffered bike lanes that were installed on SE Holgate back in August. To give you a sense of the … Read more
Ray LaHood rocks Summit crowd with tabletop speech
US DOT Secretary Ray LaHood stands atop a table to address Summit attendees at the Congressional Reception held in a Senate ballroom on Capitol Hill.(Photos © J. Maus)