Category: Bikes

  • KBOO Bike Show: High-tech Retro

    Listen to the show (mp3, 23.9MB) The Bike Show gets high-tech retro with a flashback to materials of the past that are making a splash now. In this episode we talk about wood and wool as the re-imagined, super hot, high tech materials of the future with Adam George, creator and fabricator of Bound Bikes…

  • Why Bike Boxes Don’t Work (Except for Where They’re Working)

    Here’s a fun little brain teaser: Where have you seen this lane configuration:

  • KBOO Bike Show – Riding as Profession

    Listen to the show (mp3, 25.7MB) We’re talking to professionals again – this time, professional bike riders. Our listeners can probably picture the bike messengers – the lean, fast couriers with a big bag slung over their backs, zipping around downtown delivering documents. But these days, a much wider range of goods is being delivered…

  • Counting Bicycles

    For the deeply nerdy, the OTREC (Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium) is having a special seminar on Thursday: Speaker: Krista Nordback, University of Colorado, Denver Topic: Estimating Annual Average Daily Bicyclists: Advantages and Pitfalls When: Thursday, October 25, 1-2 p.m. Where: ITS Lab, 375 Engineering Building, PSU (1930 SW 4th Ave) Krista’s specific area…

  • Finally Getting Diverted

    It looks like PBOT took advantage of today’s nice weather to start installing the diverter at NW 10th and Marshall. This is a small bit of mitigation for the Streetcar Loop that is finally being fulfilled. As part of the project we moved the bicycle facility from the now-track-filled-cycling-wasteland of Lovejoy to Marshall St. But…