Portland Online Portland Bureau of Transportation has finally unveiled a website to educate and engage the public in the city’s much-anticipated bike share program. “If you haven’t been to a city with bike sharing, it’s hard to imagine what it’ll look like,” says PBOT’s Dan Anderson. “The website was created to show the basic reasons […]
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Shut Up About Your Bloomers and Other Bike Don’ts
Okay, so I’m no Sarah Mirk, but I know you’re already having bike and lady talk withdrawals. No fear! Here’s a great list of don’ts for female cyclists that was published in 1895 in the New York World , dug up by the creative bloggers at Brain Pickings. — Don’t be a fright.— Don’t faint […]
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Yes, PBOT’s Budget is Abysmal. No, It’s not Because PBOT’s Crazy for Bikes.
The Oregonian‘s front page, above-the-fold article yesterday was all about the Portland Bureau of Transportation budget cuts. The story hits home some good points, but in my opinion, its framing is misleading. On the page, the article was headlined, “Portland Road to Ruin” with the subhead, “What’s a priority: Bike routes, conferences, and staff. What’s […]
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Sneak Peak of Portland Bike Builders’ New Creations
Ahearne’s “Mud and Sand” (and whiskey) bike Joseph Ahearne’s bike dangled precariously from the Ace Hotel ceiling on thin wires, attracting a crowd of admirers who examined its custom rubber fenders, absurdly massive tires, and three built-in whiskey flasks. “It’s a sand and mud bike,” said Ahearne, standing by nonchalantly while explaining his plans to […]
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North Williams Redesign Ideas Emerge
As discussed at length in this week’s paper, North Williams is going through some big changes. Today at a meeting, the city and planners laid out the top three options for revamping the street to make it safer for cyclists and pedestrians. The city backed off from even publicly mentioning specific design ideas after it […]
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60 Second Video of Chariot Wars
This weekend is Minibike Winter—the hilarious, anarchic, Zoobomb party weekend—and yesterday teams of homemade freak bike riders faced off in the annual battle royale known as Chariot Wars. There are some pretty insane and great videos of previous Chariot Wars, so I went for brevity and made this minute-long video of yesterday’s action. If you […]
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New Paris Laws Give Bikes Okay to Run Red Lights; Ooh-La-La!
Hot tipper Cienna fed us this story… Apparently several European cities are revising their laws to actually allow bicyclists to run red lights (yielding to oncoming traffic of course), and here’s their reasoning: In Paris, where bike share began and cycling is rampant, the municipal government decreed it legal for cyclists to flat out run […]
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Police Release Disco Trike!
The sparkly gold Disco Trike impounded during last week’s Occupy solidarity march has been freed! Though police initially told disco tricyler Dan Kaufman that they would hold onto the iconic bike until the court date for his “unlawful operation of sound producing equipment” citation, apparent intervention from the mayor led police to spring the bike […]
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Police Confiscate Disco Tricycle, Make Arrests at Tahrir Square Rally
“The Disco Trike is a prisoner of war,” says Bike Swarm organizer and internet TV host Dan Kaufman, whose highly distinctive tricycle—equipped with a sound system—was impounded last night during a downtown protest in solidarity with Tahrir Square. The golden trike and accompanying crowd of bikes and dance party tunes has been a regular part […]
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Saltzman: Maybe Put Sunday Parkways on “Hiatus”
Maybe you’ve heard. Portland’s transportation bureau is facing a $16 million budget sinkhole—and maybe can’t pay for things like street and sidewalk repairs. Seizing on that lousy news, Commissioner Dan Saltzman this morning questioned whether one of Mayor Sam Adams’ pet bike programs ought to be temporarily shelved: Sunday Parkways.The debate came during a tentative […]
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BMX Fans Plan Protest of Gresham Skatepark
Look, rag on Gresham on you want, but their skate park is pretty great: Opened in 2010, the Dreamland-designed skatepark is 5,700 square feet right downtown on Main Street. The only problem? No bikes allowed. The city council banned BMX bikes from the park a few months after the opening. They reasoned that bikes would […]
