Willamette Week

Portland Finally Has the Resources to Become an Elite Bike City. But More Money Means Different Problems.

The best way to summarize this moment in Portland’s history as a city of bikes might actually be with an automotive metaphor: We’re the dog that caught the car.

Portland’s Bike Renaissance Begins Now

It’s no secret that Portland thinks of itself as America’s bicycle mecca. More than beer, coffee or cannabis, cycling is where we take the greatest pride—we even stamp images of bikes on license plates, accompanied by our unofficial civic slogan, “Share the Road.”

Portland Cyclists Have Gotten Complacent. It's Time To Spice Things Up.

With our annual bike issue, we want to spice things up.

Is Portland’s Proud Bike Culture Stunting the Adoption of E-Bikes?

E-bikes have run into the buzz saw of the Portland paradox.

I Took An Epic E-Bike Ride from the Willamette Valley to the Coast

E-bikes may or may not be able to save the world, but can they conquer a rugged logging road in the Oregon Coast Range?

Biketown Is Killing Portland Bike Shops

Since Biketown launched last July, local bike-rental shops have been feeling an intense burning sensation.

Biketown Isn't Just For Tourists. I Used It For a Week and It Was Great

I felt the strange pity of the superior person: I literally had hundreds of bicycles, all of them mine for a moment.

What Would It Take For Portland To Become a Globally Elite Bike City?

Walker’s new book argues that “mass cycling” is a deeply pragmatic solution to the problems of booming urban population.

Portland Made Driving Miserable. All You Can Do Now is Bike.

Driving in Portland is now awful, and it’s going to get worse.

Welcome to Bikey Town

Portland’s bike roots run deep—and more people bike to work here per capita than in any other city in the nation.

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