For the first time ever I’m going to ride in the World Naked Bike Ride—not just because my family jewels are the shiniest you’ve ever seen, but because I want in on this whole bike craze before it goes the way of the Harlem Shake video. So mark your calendars for a couple Pedalpalooza rides […]
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Dorothy Rabinowitz’s Bike Invective is Somehow Comforting
It seems the entirety of the bike blogosphere is collectively moaning/chortling at the vastly out of touch vitriole Wall Street Journal editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz spews forth in the video below. But if you’ve missed it, watch on. Gaze upon on the terror that is to be loosed on unsuspecting Portlanders (maybe) next spring. […]
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Need a Bike Rack? Maybe Install Your Own
So Portland does a MUCH better job than New York City of providing bike parking. This is my understanding, at least, from folks who live in New York City and marvel at the ease with which we Portlanders lock up any old place, relatively unconcerned (compared to New Yorkers) about theft. But the very fact […]
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Bikes Are Good, City Club Decides in 2013
Big news: Bikes are a good thing, and Portland’s done a pretty good job promoting their use! You’re painfully familiar with that narrative—it’s been trotted out for years in the pages of the country’s largest newspapers and magazines, and dissected endlessly in local media. Now, one of the city’s staid civic organizations has decided to […]
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You Can Make Your Bike Wheels into Cartoons Now?
I am almost-certainly way late on the Monkey Light Pro, but have you all seen this? Who among us hasn’t dreamed of an animated goldfish, futilely attempting to escape its crystal prison on our bike wheels? Or hamster-like kittens, running incessantly while we ride? These look to be expensive—and they’ll probably not be in production […]
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Could Seattle’s Bike Share Program Offer the Spark Portland’s Needs?
Portland’s Alta Bicycle Share has won the right to usher another large city into the age of bike share—and that could spell a boon for Portland’s currently cash-poor system. Puget Sound Bike Share yesterday announced it had selected Alta to build and operate a 500 bike system in Seattle. Officials say they’ll have the system […]
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Here’s a Look Inside the Bike Share Sales Pitch
Were I an eccentric millionaire itching to throw money at bizarre flights of fancy, I’d seriously consider dropping $3.75 million or so on Portland’s currently cash-poor bike share project. Not only would a logo of my choosing (probably a miniature pastoral scene with me, smoking and obscured, Waldo-like, by a distant haystack) be spangled throughout […]
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One More Thing on Bike Share
In case you’re curious how the City of Portland arrived at the $4.7 million figure to get the city’s slightly tardy bike share system off the ground, the city’s contract with Alta Bicycle Share provides some helpful information. Here, for instance, is what the system’s components are projected by Alta to cost. So at least […]
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Waiting on Bike Share? It’s at Least a Year Away, and Here’s Why
If you chanced visiting the website for Portland’s upcoming bike share program last year, you were greeted with a large proclamation: Coming Spring 2013. Yet here we are, a week shy of that gentle season, and no fleet of sturdy, plodding rental bikes has flooded the center city as planned. Now, the city’s bike share […]
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Some Assholes Just Fired at a Bicyclist in a “Drive-By Paintball Shooting”
Check out this news alert from the Portland Police Bureau about some sad-sack bicyclist on North Vancouver who almost got hit with paintballs. And, yes, someone in the office, WHOM I SHALL NOT NAME, actually said “good.” That is all. This afternoon, Tuesday February 26, 2013, at 4:05 p.m., Portland Police officers assigned to North […]
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“Sociopath on a Bicycle”: Bill Burr on Lance Armstrong
Verrrrrrry funny comedian Bill Burr gives his take on Lance Armstrong and that filthy fucking hypocrite Oprah in this hilarious interview with Conan. (P.S. Lance should steal the name “Sociopath on a Bicycle” for his autobiography.)
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Deer Antler Bicycle Handlebars: CONDEMN OR ALLOW?!?
BEHOLD! Deer antler bicycle handlebars as created by Brooklyn designer Taylor Simpson. via taylorsimpsondesign.com via taylorsimpsondesign.com