Summer Guide 2011: Summer Events Calendar

Featured Stories June 17-19: Portland Pride This year’s official theme is “Make It Happen!,” and the “it” is pride. Events include the Pulse dance party, Waterfront Festival, Dyke March, Pride Drag Race an   More

 

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 ASHLEY COLLMAN, NATASHA GEILING, KAREN LOCKE

Expose Yourself to Bikes

The mountain’s out! Time to air up the 10-speed.

Featured Stories Spring in Portland is a series of small victories. We celebrate the day every camellia blooms at once; the first dry weekend; the first day Mount St. Helens peeks through the mist.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 BEN WATERHOUSE

Streets Of Death!

Stick to the neighborhood greenway—or else.

Featured Stories The Portland Bureau of Transportation says the city is getting safer to bike in: Portland’s bicycle traffic increased 190 percent between 2000 and 2009, and accidents declined 39 percent, the bur   More

 

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 NATHAN GILLES

Meet the Cyclante

Jim Parsons is making your commute safer, one sewer grate at a time.

Featured Stories In the past decade, Jim Parsons moved to Portland from Southern Oregon, lost his job as a travel agent and went back to school at PSU to study linguistics, where he’s currently a part-time student   More

 

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 AILIN DARLING

The Paths Less Cycled

Riding Portland’s most underrated bike routes

Featured Stories Clinton. Salmon. Ankeny. Williams. Broadway. Even occasional cyclists recognize the names of Portland’s busiest bikeways. From bike lanes to cycle tracks and the clumsily named “neighborhood gr   More

 

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 CRAIG BEEBE

Who Rides These Things, Anyway?

Odd pedal-powered creations and their loyal devotees.

Featured Stories Take a close look at a row of bike racks anywhere in the city and you’ll see a diverse ecosystem of bicycles, from Wal-Mart beaters with ornamental suspensions to tricked-out commuter hybrids with   More

 

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 ASHLEY GOSSMAN

Bikeasaurus Rex

Three-term Metro councilor to Portland’s elected officials: Get off your asses!

Featured Stories Rex Burkholder, ever the environmentalist, is concerned about a new endangered species in Portland: the biking public official. Burkholder helped found the Bicycle Transportation Alliance and, as th   More

 

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG

No More Pink Pedals

The Portland Society hopes to break up the bike industry boy’s club.

Featured Stories In the cycling world, “women-specific” can mean everything from pink jerseys to bicycles emblazoned with flowers—the phenomenon known as “shrink it and pink it.” But the Portland Society    More

 

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 LUCY BURNINGHAM

Bike to the Future

The next big innovation in bicycle design is…wood?

Featured Stories The funny thing about Ken Wheeler, owner of Portland bicycle manufacturer Renovo, is that he doesn’t seem terribly interested in the qualities that must attract many customers to the wooden bikes    More

 

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG

Drink, Don’t Drive

BikeBar combines Portland’s two great loves: bikes and beer.

Featured Stories The entrance to the temple is guarded by golden lions—or would be, anyway, if this were Las Vegas. But this is Portland, so the temple honors the gods of bikes and beer, and the lions are electri   More

 

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 KAREN LOCKE