script and seal Friends. It is supposed to be 60 degrees and sunny this weekend. This incredible turn of meteorological events means that there will be many more people taking to the roads on their bikes from right about now until the rain starts in earnest again next fall. More people riding bikes is great. […]
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Portland’s Bike Plan at One Year: Are We On Track?
Build It! Bike fans rallied last year at City Council Time to break out the dairy-free, gluten-free birthday cake: Portland’s very ambitious bike plan that aims to triple bike use by 2030 is now one year old. The Portland Bureau of Transportation presented a one-year update (pdf) to city council today, looking back at how […]
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Well Now This is Just Crazy
Bike parking that attached to the side of buildings that rises like a Ferris wheel: via Bikes are locked to a rack which spins down to street level when someone pedals a stationary bike at the bottom that’s attached to the whole gear system—it’s just an idea still, not a real-life deal. Though it’s pretty […]
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Who Bikes?
Andrew Sullivan links to a study that found, among other things, that “the lowest-earning quarter of Americans make nearly one-third of all bike trips.” He adds: I have a bike and no car. And cars are the primary reason we are so indebted to foreign autocracies sitting on sand and oil. But Americans, as usual, […]
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Red Light, What Light? Bike Signals in Portland.
A few days ago I was biking along SE 41st and Hawthorne and came to a confusing situation: a stop sign, in front of a crosswalk signal showing a red hand. Since there were no cars around, could I bike across? Or did I have to wait for the pedestrian signal to change? Or did […]
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Cop Commutes By Bike, Almost Gets Run Over.
Yesterday was a rough day for Portland Police Sergeant J. Santos, who was riding his bike along NW Cornell Road in the morning when a car buzzed past within inches of him, almost hitting the off-duty officer. Then the driver got worse. Much worse. Take it away, police press release! The driver, later identified as […]
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Obama’s Transportation Chief is Coming to Town! And He’ll Be Biking Over the Hawthorne Bridge.
via If you’re lucky, you might spot some wonk celebrities tomorrow amid the regular sea of Spandex on the morning commute: Congressman Earl Blumenauer and Obama’s Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, will bike over the Hawthorne Bridge tomorrow at precisely 8 AM. LaHood is one of the precious few Republicans in Obama’s cabinet but, surprisingly, has […]
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A Printable Bike
We live in the future. Proof, from MAKE magazine, is a tiny bike that manufactures can print out from layers of nylon powder: “The Airbike is made of nylon… and requires no conventional maintenance or assembly. It is ‘grown’ from powder, allowing complete sections to be built as one piece… to rider specification.” Also, if […]
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House Passes Bill to Let Cities Say, “Slow Down!”
Portland representative Ben Cannon scored a win today in Salem when the House overwhelmingly passed his bill, HB 3150, that will allow cities to lower the speed limits by five miles per hour on their neighborhood streets. Right now if Portland wants to lower the speed limit on any of its streets, (say, like, new […]
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I’m Having Fun Watching New Yorkers Fight About Bikes.
New York City is pushing an awesome, ambitious bike plan (they aim to double bike commuting rates in five years) which means this past year or so, residents have been discovering things Portlanders take for granted—green bike paths, bike lanes on major streets, and, oh yes, bickering about whether bike investments are worthwhile. NYC is […]
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Earl Blumenauer Talks About his Bike Commute
It’s the National Bike Summit this week in Washington DC. What better way to recognize the biggest bicycle lobbying time of the year than by interviewing Oregon Representative Earl Blumenauer on Politico and making him look like kind of a dork. Blumenauer tells Politico’s Patrick Gavin about his bike commute to the Capitol Building and […]
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Tweed Ride is Tomorrow!
Like wearing wool in the rain? Have a thing for Victorian ephemera? Excited to show off your pennyfarthing? Tomorrow is Portland’s tweed ride! This is pretty much the classiest that Portland cyclists look all year. No Showers Pass allowed. Look! Here’s fashion star Adam Arnold from last year’s ride: s.mirk Ride meets at 11am at […]