Bikes

Northwest Portland State Representative Mitch Greenlick says he has gotten hundreds of emails over the past 24 hours—all about his bill to ban kids younger than six from being carried on bikes. First of all, Greenlick isn’t a transportation guy. He’s a public health guy. He doesn’t ride a bike in Portland (“Oh, no,” he […]

Fine this family $90! BikePortland noticed a surprising law proposed in the list of bills facing the new legislature (which kicked off yesterday): HB 2228 would ban kids younger than six from being carried on a bike or in a bike trailer. Northwest Portland State Representative Mitch Greenlick proposed the bill. I’ve got a call […]

Look, there’s no point in trying to sugarcoat it. This week sucks for biking. It’s raining, it’s freezing, it’s dark, whatever, it sucks. So, for some inspiration, here’s two photo essays from the internet this week. One: Biking vikings in Copenhagen, where apparently 80 percent of residents continue to bike through the winter despite snow […]

Been there, done that. The painful rule of thumb is this: Everyone who rides a bike in Portland will crash once on the streetcar tracks. Just once, but always once. After that, you approach the tracks with caution. (My own wipe out occurred at rush hour in the Pearl and garnered genuine looks of horror […]

According to Engadget, the YikeBike is now available for order. $3,595 will get you a foldable electric bike with a six-mile range that can go up to fifteen miles per hour. You can see the YikeBike in action here. Watch it being folded up here. While I think the price (and the apparent lack of […]

Portland’s newest bike shop is just off SE 28th Avenue and it is immaculately designed. First of all, it’s just pronounced Crank. I thought that because of the accent, it was supposed to be pronounced with some fake foreign feel, like “Crahnk” or “Craynk.” No, explained co-owner Justin Tutor, “The accent is just for flair. […]

As the swiftest and least-hilly route to North Portland, N. Williams Ave is essentially the bike highway for North and NE Portland and daily bike ridership along the street has exploded. Six years ago, the city’s annual bike counts showed that about a thousand bike riders a day used North Williams. In 2010, that number […]

FLICKR A couple weeks ago as I was getting on my bike outside a cutesy art supply store in SE (no comment), an older woman stopped me and said, “Oh, I don’t know how you do that! It’s so dangerous!” I usually brush off these warnings, but this week OHSU docs published one of the […]

Tipster Wesley Pasqualle send in these photos he took of a truck and trailer he saw in the Fred Meyer parking lot at SE 82nd and Foster. Now, clearly, I don’t know anything about this vehicle or its back story or where metal scrappers dug up a couple dozen bikes. But just saying that if […]