I always carry a fat stack of the city’s pocket-size foldy bike maps to hand out to visiting friends and other people new to biking in Portland. But two groups of locals are one-upping the city, printing full guides to Portland by bike. Bike activist Elly Blue and bike fun instigator Meghan Sinnott launched PDX […]
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Oregon Manifest is Coming! I Am Excited About Oregon Manifest.
Woop woop! An exciting bike event is just around the corner and it doesn’t involve a single costumed bike ride. Oregon Manifest is setting up in camp at PNCA the weekend of September 23rd. This event, which last took place in 2009, is nationwide design/build challenge that asks bike builders to create the best possible […]
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You Don’t Need Fancy Pants to Ride a Bicycle
Ugh, okay, so this is coming to town: A mobile bike shop at the Ace Hotel hosted by Levi’s and Urban Outfitters. It’s to celebrate the creation of some bike pants that merit their own video: On the one hand, it’s good that biking is becoming so mainstream that you can now buy a pair […]
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The Case of the Porsche vs. the Bicycling Harpist
Lucas Ebert Local 21-year-old conman Lucas Ebert is headed to trial next month for impersonating a doctor at OHSU. And though Ebert’s alleged trail of ID theft and scamming is well-documented, court documents show he’s accused of leaving another victim in his wake: Portland’s bicycling harpist! Ebert appears to be the much lamer twin of […]
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Council Votes to Bring Bike Sharing to Downtown PDX
Si Se Puede: Bike Sharing in Mexico City After a two-hour hearing, city council voted 4-1 this morning to support a funding package that will pour $6.6 million of federal funds into East Portland and Foster bike/ped improvements and a downtown bike sharing program. I’ll post about the East Portland and Foster issues later, but […]
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City Pushes to Fund $4.5 Million Bike Sharing Program Downtown
Portland’s Bureau of Transportation is asking city council to sign off on a request to pursue local funding for a long-discussed project that would bring a massive bike share program to downtown Portland. A bike sharing rack in Mexico City. If the project become a reality, 74 stations hosting 740 shared bikes would pop up […]
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Fatal Bike/SUV Hit and Run Victim Identified
KOIN 6 KOIN 6 spoke with the family of the man killed early this morning in a hit-and-run on SE Division: He’s 28-year-old Dustin Finney. Condolences to Finney’s family and friends. This is certainly a terrible, wasteful loss. This is the first fatal crash involving someone on a bike within the Portland city limits this […]
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Have You Seen the Jerk from this Hit and Run?
Look at this nice girl who is in the hospital: Daily bike commuter Laura Stanger, 26, had been crash-free until Wednesday morning when she was riding up NE Couch toward the Burnside Bridge. Though the city revamped NE Couch to be safer for bikes, it’s a notorious right hook zone. And that’s what happened to […]
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Update on Last Night’s Bike/Car Crash: 23-Year-Old Died
Sad news, everyone. One of the three cyclists who were taken the hospital after a pickup truck ran into them last night on a rural road outside Hillsboro has died. Twenty-three year old Vancouverite Diego Reyes passed this morning at Legacy Emanuel hospital. Courtney Acosta-Grates, 30, is still in the hospital with critical injuries. Melanie […]
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Two People Suffer Life Threatening Injuries After Washington County Bike/Car Crash
Two adults are listed in critical condition—including one who required a helicopter flight to a hospital—after a serious bike/car crash in Washington County tonight. According to reports, at about 9pm a truck heading west on NW Union Road near the intersection of Jackson Quarry Road struck three cyclists who were riding together on NW Union. […]
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Sam Adams Needs a Tank
Hey Mayor Sam Adams! Two things: 1) It was nice to see you at The Big Float last Sunday. 2) You should get a tank. You can use a tank for all sorts of things—for example, you can use it to run over and crush expensive cars illegally parked in the bike lanes, just like […]
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Famous Jock Hit by Car While Biking in PDX
A somewhat famous person was hit by a car while biking in Portland, everyone! And luckily, the injuries are non-life threatening, but they still sent Portland native turned Detroit Lions NFL player Joey Harrington to the hospital Sunday night. According to police, Harrington was biking west on Foster Street near 88th Avenue at 8:20pm last […]