Check out this great new video put together by the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association (OBRA). With helmet cams, a good sountrack, and some epic racing action from throughout the state, OBRA manages to capture some of the spirit of what makes bike racing in Oregon so special… Oregon Racing from Oregon Bicycle Racing Assoc on … Read more
There are a lot of things to love about the new, Small wheels to the coast video from Russ Roca. Russ, and his cohort Laura Crawford, are planning another big bike tour in May. The premise of the tour is to combine trains and folding bikes to “redefine the American road trip.” To test out … Read more
If marketing campaigns and PSAs don’t curb distracted driving and we lack the resources to enforce laws, how will we ever learn that driving a multi-ton vehicle on a road shared with people walking and biking is an extremely serious responsibility? As we struggle to figure out why an “alarming” amount of people are being … Read more
Cross Crusade #6 Astoria – Chapter 2 from Burk Webb on Vimeo. Local racer and digital media pro Burk Webb is creating quite a following with his cyclocross videos. He has been sharing his work via the OBRA email list each week with the subject line of “(Race name) in convenient video form.”
Still of PBOT’s Roger Geller on Green Science Oregon show. CIty of Portland Bike Coordinator Roger Geller and noted PSU transportation researcher Jennifer Dill star in the latest episode of Green Science Oregon. The 10-minute segment (watch it below) is a good primer on the current state of Portland’s bike network. It’s also a window … Read more
Getting to school. – Watch the video below – Several readers have shared an extremely inspiring video from Orlando that everyone should watch and share. It chronicles a student-run bike-to-school effort at Colonial High School in Central Florida that you just have to see to believe.
No lights, no problem. Still from video, watch it below. Gridlock and road rage are an unfortunate part of American traffic culture. How much do traffic lights have to do with that? Would we be more considerate of other road users without them? A small town in England decided to find out. About a year … Read more
It’s a rare media outlet that can cover something like the World Naked Bike Ride with a good balance of professionalism and good-natured fun, but the crew at G4 TV seems to have done just that. Their coverage (watch it below) of Portland’s 2010 World Naked Bike Ride features some familiar faces including “Route Czar” … Read more
A new Streetfilm (watch it below) taken during the recent Velo-City Global conference in Copenhagen is like a refuge in a storm. Here in Portland (and across the country), we still struggle with resentment over bike lanes, a local media that’s happy to stir it up, people wanting to ban bikes completely because they’re simply … Read more
Still from ‘Get Dirty’ by Robin Moore Productions. Portland-based filmmaker Robin Moore has done it again. The man behind the phenomenal web video sensation, “Performance,” which parodied fixed gear and roadie culture, has released “Get Dirty,” which does the same to mountain bikers. Moore’s latest is equally entertaining. Listen to the lyrics…they’re hilarious! Check it … Read more
Watch Hitler expound on Portland’s bike scene in the video below.(Still from the movie Downfall) Portland filmmaker Joe Biel has collaborated with veteran local bike scene participant Allan Folz on Mien Fiets, a short video that attempts to explain what has happened to bike activism in Portland since the demise of Critical Mass (a ride … Read more
A new video (watch it below) created by David Osborn from the Stop the CRC Coalition in collaboration with Coalition for Livable Future says that it’s time to “push back” on the Columbia River Crossing project. The video tells their version of the recent history of the project. It features a July 2008 Portland City … Read more