Topic: bikes

If you're in Portland this weekend, you might want to check out the Cycle Seen benefit auction for Bikes to Rwanda being held at the Division Stumptown. The silent art auction will feature photography of Portland's bike culture. Proceeds will go to Bikes to Rwanda, a non-profit that assists coffee growers in Rwanda with... guess what???... bikes! Coffee + bikes + helping out a...

James Thomas of the Bicycle Design blog introduces us to the "Trek Stop", a convenience store for bikers... (Photos courtesy of James Thomas/Bicycle Design) According to Thomas, this is a test unit that has been set up outside of a bike shop in Madison, Wisconsin (the nearest big city to Waterloo, home town of Trek Bicycles)....

Campaign logoLarger version here (PDF)(Photo © J. Maus) The Portland-based Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) has joined onto a campaign with bicycle advocacy groups from New York City, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C., to help launch Independence from Oil Day. The effort will kick off this Friday (July 4th), and the idea is garner media attention while...

I wish I were more proficient in taking photos while riding a bike--I would have snapped a photo of the massive crowd of folks on bikes, following Commissioner Sam Adams on his commute home to Kenton, part of Pedalpalooza. As Adams turned onto the Eastbank Esplanade at the east end of the Hawthorne Bridge, the crowd--at least 150 strong, on regular bikes, bakfiets, mondo cycles, and everything in...

"At rush hour, expecting to board a train with a bike is a less dependable option than locking a bike at both ends of the trip, bringing on a folding bike, or traveling at a different time."-Colin Maher, TriMet TriMet's bike programs manager Colin Maher has taken the time to look into the incident that I...

Portland's own all female mini-bike dance troupe presents The Sprockettes Bicycle Bash—a grand summer celebration of bikes, art, and music—from 9 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. June 28 at 606 S.E. Madison St. Check out the press release: The night will feature bike-dance troupes from throughout the Northwest, bike-themed art, a silent auction, raffle prizes, nonstop dancing...

My wife works in Beaverton, she normally uses a two bike system so she doesn't have to hassle with bringing a bike on the Max. But unfortunately yesterday this wasn't the case. Blue line 185th Stop: She was about to board, when she saw that Trimet ticket checkers were not letting cyclists board unless there was an empty hanger for their bike. Train after train they were kicking people off from...

Dan Kaufman and his Disco Trike.Video below(Photos © J. Maus) One of the fringe benefits of pedaling around Portland this time of year are all interesting bikes and people you come across. One such person is Dan Kaufman. Dan lives just off the Springwater Corridor Trail in Sellwood with this wife Kirsten (a real estate agent who gives...

If you were wondering what the music, dancing, and bikes were all about this past saturday it was Pedalpalooza's Splash Dance. The mobile dance party hit the major fountains in the central city for some good wet fun. In the afternoon, they stopped by Jamison to get their groove on. As you can see a good time was had by all ages. Mobil e tunes provided by CrankMyChain!...

Patrick Barber takes in bike photographs at the Tea Zone in Northwest Portland.More photos here(Photos © J. Maus) It seems like everywhere you turn in Portland these days you see bikes. As if near daily bike parades and rides weren't enough to convince Portlanders that this city is absolutely bike-crazy, the Cycle Seen: Picturing Portland's...