Movement to downgrade Portland’s bike friendliness is going nowhere fast.
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Ride Like Hell
The Mercury‘s Top Pedalpalooza Picks
The Mercury‘s top Pedalpalooza picks!
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Fit While You Sit
Gladys Bikes’ Fitting Service Made Me Like My Bike. I Think.
In which Gladys Bikes’ fitting service finally made me like my bike. I think.
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Free Passage
A Historian Explains Why the Streets Are Ours (Not Just Cars’)
A historian explains why the streets are ours (not just cars’).
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Bike Helmets (for Bike Helmet Haters)
EVERYBODY MISSES the point about bike helmets. (Why, yes… I am looking at you!) The overprotective nanny state assumes wearing a helmet will provide the rider with near invulnerability, citing reports they can “prevent up to 85 percent of head injuries.” (What they fail to note is that none of the cyclists in this study […]
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Helmets (for the Helmet Haters)
On Your Irrationality About Helmets… and Rad-Looking Helmets!
An article about bike helmet irrationality—and fucking rad-looking helmets!
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World Naked Bike Ride 2015 Kicks Off at Col. Summers Park
Leo Zarosinski Last year, a few people in NE Portland got very upset indeed when organizers of the World Naked Bike Ride announced it was starting off at nearby Normandale Park. The previous two years, the ride had begun in less-residential settings—on the Central Eastside and in front of the Portland Art Museum. This year? […]
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ANOTHER Cyclist Was Just Hit at SE Powell and 26th
May is National Bike Month. That’s an arbitrary designation, of course. I only bring it up because Portland’s has been god-awful. Almost three weeks after a 22-year-old cyclists lost his leg in a crash at SE Powell and 26th (and just days after a cyclists was killed nearby) there’s been ANOTHER crash at the intersection. […]
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Another Ugly Bike-Truck Crash in SE Portland—This One Fatal
Google Maps SE Gladstone at Cesar E Chavez, looking west An already bloody May got much worse today, when a cyclist was struck and killed by a tow-truck driver in SE Portland. There’s not a lot clear about the accident right now, other than that it occurred around noon at SE Cesar E Chavez and […]
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“Dead Red” Gets the Go-Ahead
Photo courtesy of the Oregon Department of Transportation Good news: If you’re on a bicycle or motorcycle and a red light won’t change for you, you can run it! Oregon bicycle and motorcycle riders on Wednesday won the right to go on a “dead red” light following the unanimous passage of Senate Bill 533. The […]
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Pedalpalooza Approaches—What’s Your Ride?
It’s May, everybody, which is mostly significant because the bikey bacchanalia that is Pedalpalooza is right around the corner. Three weeks of ridiculousness begin June 4. Every year, Pedalpalooza hosts the classic rides—the Lit ‘n’ Louds, the Bowie v Princes, the World Naked Bike Ride—but the best moments of the month can come from its […]
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The Angriest Guy at Today’s Bike Protest of ODOT Wasn’t a Cyclist
For a minute, it seemed like Ted the dump truck driver might be an actor. Dozens of cyclists laid down in an out-of-the-way stretch of NW Flanders this afternoon and played dead, a symbolic move to let the Oregon Department of Transportation staffers working nearby know the agency’s stewardship of Powell Boulevard isn’t good enough. […]